Author:
Kwasny Michal,Laudyn Urszula A.,Karpierz Miroslaw,Trippenbach Marek,Hagan David,Christodoulides Demetrios,Krolikowski Wieslaw,Jung Pawel S.
Abstract
We report the first experimental observation of a novel fundamental soliton class, termed Tower and Volcano solitons, in soft-matter systems characterized by nonlinear responses driven by competing nonlocal interactions.