Dissipative Coherent Structures in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics: Outlook of Symmetry and Its Breaking
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 1585
Special Issue Editor
Interests: theoretical laser physics; femtosecond pulse nonlinear optics; field theory; pure mathematics and mathematical physics; philosophy; philology and linguistics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid advance in the study of multidimensional coherent patterns has an interdisciplinary character and bridges the different areas comprising biology and sociology, turbulence phenomena in plasma and hydrodynamics, nonlinear and quantum optics, solitonics, and self-organization phenomena in liquid crystals and Bose-Einstein condensates, and many other fields. That establishes close connections or analogies between micro and macroscale phenomena, in particular, unexpected insights into the quantum mechanics of open systems, field theory, and even cosmology. In photonics and Bose-Einstein condensate, such dissipative coherent structures could provide unprecedented energy (or mass) harvesting and a breakthrough in the information capacity of photonic networks, quantum computing, multimode microresonators mastering, and optical comb generation. Symmetry plays a fundamental role in all these phenomena. Paradoxically, the highly symmetrical coherent patterns can spontaneously emerge from a hierarchical symmetry breaking due to phase transitions and stochastic resonance. The striking examples are down-up structure formation in cosmology and spontaneous mode-locking in lasers. The robustness and “evolutionary advantage” of a coherent structure emergent in an open (in particular, dissipative or non-Hermitian) system is based on its symmetry properties. One could set as an example the PT – symmetry in nonlinear and quantum optics providing unprecedented stability of a spontaneously emergent coherent structure and bridging the classical and quantum phenomena.
The underlying intention of the Special Issue “Dissipative Coherent Structures in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics: Outlook of Symmetry and Its Breaking” is to collect the research articles and reviews on the study of symmetry-breaking and symmetry-emergent coherent structures in nonlinear and quantum optics and related fields which can be comprised by rapidly progressing analogical or metaphorical photonic-based modeling. Please note that all submitted papers must be within the general scope of the Symmetry journal.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir L. Kalashnikov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solitons
- coherent pattern formation
- metaphorical modeling
- symmetry breaking and phase transition phenomena
- PT – symmetry in optics
- stochastic resonance
