abstract
- © 2019 American Physical Society. Using a recently developed technique based on the Rayleigh-Ritz optimization principle, we generate solitons for media with an arbitrary degree of nonlocality. We demonstrate that it is possible to obtain a plethora of complex self-trapped beams using known solutions to the harmonic oscillator for one-dimensional (1D), 2D, and 3D systems, but working directly with a generalized nonlinear nonlocal Schrödinger equation. We compare the parameters obtained variationally between the phenomenological Gaussian response and other more realistic nonlocal responses. We report that, for both kinds of nonlocal models, our approach obtains variational solutions that can remain self-trapped for certain conditions. We corroborate that, in general, the soliton dynamics can be different between the Gaussian response and the more realistic media for an arbitrary degree of nonlocality.