Superluminal k-gap solitons in nonlinear photonic time-crystals
arXiv:2208.09220 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.233801
Abstract
We propose superluminal solitons residing in the momentum gap (k-gap) of nonlinear photonic time-crystals. These gap solitons are structured as plane-waves in space while being periodically self-reconstructing wavepackets in time. The solitons emerge from modes with infinite group velocity causing superluminal evolution, which is opposite to the stationary nature of the analogous Bragg gap soliton residing at the edge of an energy gap (or a spatial gap) with zero group velocity. We explore the faster-than-light pulsed propagation of these k-gap solitons in view of Einstein's causality by introducing a truncated input seed as a precursor of signal velocity forerunner, and find that the superluminal propagation of k-gap solitons does not break causality.
18 pages, 2 figures
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