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20222026
most citedObservation of edge solitons in topological trimer arrays

84 citations · 220 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

nlin.PS2026

Thouless Pumping of One-Dimensional Dark Solitons and Domain Walls

Fangwei Ye, Aidar H. Ryazhapov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov +1

We predict that quantized transport of dark solitons and domain walls can be observed in mutually sliding optical lattices in both focusing and defocusing nonlinear materials. Two…

physics.optics2026

Vortex solitons in star networks

Yaroslav V. Kartashov

I consider vortex solitons in two-dimensional star networks created by several one-dimensional line waveguide arrays (or rays) brought in close proximity. First waveguide in each a…

physics.optics2026

Quantized transport of two-dimensional multifrequency solitons

Fangwei Ye, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop

We consider Thouless pumping of two-dimensional quadratic solitons composed from coherently interacting fundamental frequency (FF) and second harmonic (SH) components propagating i…

physics.optics2026★ 2 cited

Thresholdless corner vortex solitons in fractal Sierpiński topological insulators

Yiqi Zhang, Alexander V. Kireev, Victor O. Kompanets +12

Quantized vortices are ubiquitous in physics, spanning superconductivity, astrophysics, superfluid condensed matter systems, and nonlinear optics. Yet embedding vorticity into topo…

nlin.PS2026

Stable rotating vortex clusters in three-dimensional quantum droplets

Liangwei Dong, Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We predict a new type of stable three-dimensional (3D) vortex quantum droplets in binary Bose-Einstein condensate arranged into ring clusters that per-sistently rotate in the exter…

physics.optics2025

Observation of linear and nonlinear light trapping on topological dislocations

S. K. Ivanov, A. V. Kireev, K. Sabour +11

Topological dislocations in otherwise periodic lattices represent global structural defects that, nevertheless, typically leave the lattice periodicity intact far from the dislocat…

physics.optics2025★ 5 cited

Observation of nonlinear higher-order topological insulators with unconventional boundary truncations

Changming Huang, Alexander V. Kireev, Yuxin Jiang +10

In higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), topologically nontrivial phases are usually associated with the shift of Wannier centers to topologically nontrivial positions on th…

physics.optics2025

Bloch-Landau-Zener Oscillations in Moiré Lattices

Sergey K. Ivanov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop

We develop a theory of two-dimensional Bloch-Landau-Zener (BLZ) oscillations of wavepackets in incommensurate moiré lattices under the influence of a weak linear gradient. Unlike p…

physics.optics2025

Topological pumping of light governed by Fibonacci numbers

Ruihan Peng, Kai Yang, Qidong Fu +5

Topological pumping refers to transfer of a physical quantity governed by the systemtopology, resulting in quantized amounts of the transferred quantities. It is a ubiqui-tous wave…

physics.optics2025★ 10 cited

Observation of nonlinear topological corner states originating from different spectral charges

Victor O. Kompanets, Suge Feng, Yiqi Zhang +11

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique topological materials supporting edge states with the dimensionality at least by two lower than the dimensionality of the und…

nlin.PS2025

Thouless pumping of solitons in a nonlocal medium

Fangwei Ye, Aidar H. Ryazhapov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov +1

Thouless pumping is a fundamental phenomenon recognized as being widespread across various areas of physics, with optics holding a particularly prominent role. Here, we study this…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Observation of Light Localization at the Edges of Quasicrystal Waveguide Arrays

S. K. Ivanov, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. S. Kostyuchenko +10

Quasicrystals are unique systems that, unlike periodic structures, lack translational symmetry but exhibit long-range order dramatically enriching the system properties. While evol…

physics.optics2025

Topological pumping of multi-frequency solitons

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Fangwei Ye, Vladimir V. Konotop

We report on the topological pumping of quadratic optical solitons, observed through their quantized transport in a dynamic optical potential. A distinctive feature of this system…

physics.optics2024★ 55 cited

Observation of localization of light in photonic quasicrystals of diverse symmetries

Peng Wang, Qidong Fu, Vladimir V. Konotop +2

Quasicrystals are ubiquitous in nature. Beyond crystalline solids, they can be created as optically induced or technologically fabricated structures in photonic and phononic system…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Observation of Thouless pumping of light in quasiperiodic photonic crystals

Kai Yang, Qidong Fu, Henrique C. Prates +4

Topological transport is determined by global properties of physical media where it occurs and is characterized by quantized amounts of adiabatically transported quantities. Discov…

physics.optics2024

Self-Accelerating Topological Edge States

Zhuo Zhang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Milivoj R. Belić +2

Edge states emerging at the boundaries of materials with nontrivial topology are attractive for many practical applications due to their remarkable robustness to disorder and local…

physics.optics2024

Reconfigurable Topological Dissipative Light Bullets

Qian Tang, Yiqi Zhang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov +1

We discover a novel class of dissipative light bullets whose spatial profiles may be drastically reshaped along the bulk, edges and corners of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice owin…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Fluids of Light in 2D Artificial Reconfigurable Aperiodic Crystals with Tailored Coupling

Sergey Alyatkin, Kirill Sitnik, Valtýr Kári Daníelsson +4

Aperiodic crystals are the intermediates between strictly periodic crystalline matter and amorphous solids. The lack of translational symmetry combined with intrinsic long-range or…

physics.optics2024★ 8 cited

mode lasing in the non-Hermitian Floquet topological system

Shuang Shen, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Yongdong Li +2

modes are unique topological edge states appearing in Floquet systems with periodic modulations of the underlying lattice structure in evolution variable, such as dynamically m…

nlin.PS2024★ 4 cited

Two-dimensional flat-band solitons in superhoneycomb lattices

Shuang Shen, Yiqi Zhang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov +2

Flat-band periodic materials are characterized by a linear spectrum containing at least one band where the propagation constant remains nearly constant irrespective of the Bloch mo…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

Floquet valley Hall edge solitons

Sergey K. Ivanov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We introduce traveling Floquet valley Hall edge solitons in a genuinely continuous system consisting of a waveguide array with a dynamically varying domain wall between two honeyco…

physics.optics2024★ 35 cited

Observation of nonlinear fractal higher-order topological insulator

Victor O. Kompanets, Hua Zhong, Yiqi Zhang +9

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique materials hosting topologically protected states, whose dimensionality is at least by a factor of 2 lower than that of the bu…

physics.optics2023★ 7 cited

Macroscopic Zeno effect in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger photonic topological insulator

S. K. Ivanov, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. N. Skryabin +6

The quantum Zeno effect refers to slowing down of the decay of a quantum system that is affected by frequent measurements. Nowadays, the significance of this paradigm is extended f…

physics.optics2022★ 84 cited

Observation of edge solitons in topological trimer arrays

Y. V. Kartashov, A. A. Arkhipova, S. A. Zhuravitskii +8

We report the experimental observation of nonlinear light localization and edge soliton formation at the edges of fs-laser written trimer waveguide arrays, where transition from no…