Spontaneous symmetry breaking of photonic and matter waves in two-dimensional pseudopotentials

Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo, Boris A. Malomed, Athikom Reoksabutr

We introduce the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii/nonlinear-Schrodinger (GP/NLS) equation with the self-focusing nonlinearity confined to two identical circles, separated or overla…