Publications related to Soliton

Soliton gas: Theory, numerics, and experiments

The concept of soliton gas was introduced in 1971 by Zakharov as an infinite collection of weakly interacting solitons in the framework of Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. In this theoretical construction of a diluted (rarefied) soliton gas, solitons with ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Antiferromagnetic droplet soliton driven by spin current

Mohammad Hamdi

We demonstrate that a spin current flowing through a nanocontact into a uniaxial antiferromagnet with first- and second-order anisotropy can excite a self-localized dynamic magnetic soliton, known as a spin-wave droplet in ferromagnets. The droplet nucleat ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2024

Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices

Aleksandr Tusnin

Since the discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators, significant progress has been made in the understanding of the underlying physical principles from the fundamental side and generation of broadband coherent optical Kerr frequency ...

EPFL2024

Generalised Kerr Microcomb Physics in Synchronously Driven Systems

Miles Henry Anderson

In this thesis, the generation of microcombs under complex, non-trivial, and/or higher-order cavity conditions is explored, both in theory & simulation, and in practical experimentation. Pulse-driving of microresonators is investigated for the generation ...

EPFL2023

Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alisa Davydova, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an integrated dispersion that exceeds the cavity free-spectral range. We are able to acce ...

American Physical Society2023

Unconventional Flat Chern Bands and 2e Charges in Skyrmionic Moire Superlattices

Oleg Yazyev, Yifei Guan

The interplay of topological characteristics in real space and reciprocal space can lead to the emergence of unconventional topological phases. In this Letter, we implement a novel mechanism for generating higher-Chern flat bands on the basis of twisted bi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Soliton Generation in a Gallium Phosphide Photonic-Crystal Fabry-Perot Microresonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alisa Davydova, Miles Henry Anderson, Alberto Nardi

Ring resonators have proven to be extremely successful for generation of temporal dissipative Kerr solitons, but their dispersion engineering is limited. We present a photonic-crystal Fabry-Perot resonator with record-high quality factors in gallium phosph ...

IEEE2023

Nonlinear dynamics and Kerr frequency comb formation in lattices of coupled microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan, Kenichi Komagata

Recently, substantial progress has been made in the understanding of microresonators frequency combs based on dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs). However, most of the studies have focused on the single-resonator level. Coupled resonator systems can open new ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Seeding and Emergence of Composite Skyrmions in a van der Waals Magnet

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Lukas Powalla

Topological charge plays a significant role in a range of physical systems. In particular, observations of real-space topological objects in magnetic materials have been largely limited to skyrmions - states with a unitary topological charge. Recently, mor ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Ultrafast control of emergent quantum matter probed by electron microscopy

Benoît Guilhem Michel Binh Truc

In the quest for controlling materials' properties, light as an external stimulus has a special place as it can create new states of matter and enable their ultrafast manipulation. In particular, spintronics, an exciting emergent field relying on the elect ...

EPFL2023

Spin Textures in 2D Magnets

Lukas Powalla

The continuous reduction of the structural size in nanotechnology slowed down over the last decade, approaching the natural limit of single atoms as building blocks of matter. Therefore, intensive research is directed toward exploring new frontiers, in par ...

EPFL2023

Zero dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan

Solitons are shape preserving waveforms that are ubiquitous across nonlinear dynamical systems from BEC to hydrodynamics, and fall into two separate classes: bright solitons existing in anomalous group velocity dispersion, and switching waves forming 'dark ...

Nature Research2022

Protected generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in supermodes of coupled optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Aleksandr Tusnin, Junqiu Liu, Alexey Tikan, Kenichi Komagata

A photonic dimer composed of two evanescently coupled high-Q microresonators is a fundamental element of multimode soliton lattices. It has demonstrated a variety of emergent nonlinear phenomena, including supermode soliton generation and soliton hopping. ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Microresonator Dissipative Kerr Solitons Synchronized to an Optoelectronic Oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Using phase-modulation-induced potential gradient whose period is synchronized to a microwave opto-electronic oscillator, dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a crystalline optical microresonator are trapped by the soliton tweezing effect, exhibiting a s ...

American Physical Society (APS)2022

Single Skyrmion Generation via a Vertical Nanocontact in a 2D Magnet-Based Heterostructure

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Lukas Powalla

Skyrmions have been well studied in chiral magnets and magnetic thin films due to their potential application in practical devices. Recently, monochiral skyrmions have been observed in twodimensional van der Waals magnets. Their atomically flat surfaces an ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Quantum dynamics of dissipative Kerr solitons

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, Riccardo Rota, Kilian Robert Seibold

Dissipative Kerr solitons arising from parametric gain in ring microresonators are usually described within a classical mean-field framework. Here, we develop a quantum-mechanical model of dissipative Kerr solitons in terms of the Lindblad master equation ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Skyrmion Control and Phase Transitions in Cu2OSeO3

Thomas Schönenberger

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric and non-trivial spin textures with non-zero topological charge. Their robustness against perturbations and the possibility to control them using external stimuli make them ideal candidates for future spintronic application ...

EPFL2022

Local Emergence of Peregrine Solitons: Experiments and Theory

Alexey Tikan

It has been shown analytically that Peregrine solitons emerge locally from a universal mechanism in the so-called semiclassical limit of the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Experimentally, this limit corresponds to the strongly non ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Dissipative Kerr solitons in a photonic dimer on both sides of exceptional point

Tobias Kippenberg, Hairun Guo, Mikhail Churaev, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan, Kenichi Komagata

Exceptional points are a ubiquitous concept widely present in driven-dissipative coupled systems described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. To date, exceptional points have been extensively examined in the systems supporting only a few optical modes, thereb ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Gain-switched semiconductor laser driven soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Jijun He

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation using self-injection-locked III-V lasers has enabled fully integrated hybrid microcombs that operate in turnkey mode and can access microwave repetition rates. Yet, continuous-wave-driven soliton microcombs exhibit low e ...

Nature Research2021