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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in continuous waves, dark solitons, and vortices in linearly coupled bimodal systems

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Pith's one-line read In two repulsively coupled defocusing waves, the symmetric state gives way to an exact asymmetric one above a critical density, and the broken-symmetry background hosts dark solitons and vortices with shifted cores.

desk verdict Exact asymmetric CW and a clever g=3 dark soliton make this a solid SSB paper, though the asymmetric-branch stability proof and numerical reproducibility need work. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.16111 v1 pith:QYILYGDU submitted 2025-07-21 nlin.PS cond-mat.quant-gasphysics.optics

classification nlin.PScond-mat.quant-gasphysics.optics MSC 35Q5535B3235C0837K40 PACS 03.75.Mn42.65.Tg05.45.Yv
keywords spontaneoussymmetrybreakinglinearlycoupledGross-PitaevskiiequationsdarksolitonsvorticesimmiscibilityBose-Einsteincondensatesopticalfibersmodulationalstability
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The reading

This paper studies two wave components that repel each other more strongly than they repel themselves, are linearly coupled, and live in a defocusing (self-repulsive) medium: the setting of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with Rabi coupling, or of two circular polarizations of light in a birefringent fiber. It establishes that the symmetric equal-amplitude continuous-wave state stops being the energy minimum once the total density exceeds $n_{\rm thr}=2\kappa/(g-1)$ with $g>1$; an exact asymmetric state with $uv=\kappa/(g-1)$ then has lower energy and is modulationally stable. The broken-symmetry background supports dark solitons, including an exact one at $g=3$, and in two dimensions it hosts vortices whose two components have mutually shifted cores that break isotropy. A distinct finding is 'inner' immiscibility: even when the uniform background remains fully symmetric and mixed, the core of a dark soliton or vortex can split between the two components. If the stability results are right, these states should be directly observable in Rabi-coupled condensates and in defocusing nonlinear fibers.

What carries the argument

The argument runs on closed-form solutions of the stationary equations. For the uniform states, adding and subtracting the two cubic equations and factorizing produces the exact asymmetric amplitudes (17)-(18) with the fixed product $u_{\rm as}v_{\rm as}=\kappa/(g-1)$; the energy-density comparison (22)-(24) then proves that the asymmetric branch is the lower-energy one above the threshold. Modulational stability is handled by a Madelung-form perturbation of the symmetric state at the bifurcation point, which yields the biquadratic dispersion relation (32) whose four roots (33) are purely imaginary; the asymmetric branch is thus taken to inherit stability by exchange of stability. For localized structures, the exact $g=3$ dark soliton (39) is a hyperbolic-tangent connection between two asymmetric backgrounds, obtained by applying the substitution $\{u,v,\kappa,x\}\to\{u,-v,-\kappa,-x\}$ to the known domain-wall solution (37). The 'inner immiscibility' of soliton and vortex cores on symmetric backgrounds is explained by a variational approximation built on the tanh/$\cosh$ ansatz (52), which yields the critical coupling $\kappa_c=(7g-1)n/24$ of Eq. (55).

What would settle it

Directly linearize the system (2)-(3) around the asymmetric CW state (17)-(18) at a chemical potential $-k$ above the threshold (20) and check whether any perturbation wavenumber $q$ yields $\mathrm{Re}\,\gamma>0$; the companion dynamical test is to evolve the symmetric state with small noise at $n>n_{\rm thr}$ and verify that it relaxes to the stationary asymmetric state (17) rather than breaking into domain walls or oscillations.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the linearly coupled Gross-Pitaevskii system (2)-(3) with self-defocusing and cross-repulsion of relative strength $g>1$ supports spontaneous symmetry breaking of its continuous-wave states. Adding and subtracting the stationary algebraic equations yields the exact asymmetric solution (17)-(18), with component product $u_{\rm as}v_{\rm as}=\kappa/(g-1)$, which exists above the density threshold $n_{\rm thr}=2\kappa/(g-1)$ of Eq. (20). The energy-density difference (24) shows this state lies below the symmetric one for every $n>n_{\rm thr}$, and the modulational-stability analysis at the bifurcation point, whose four dispersion roots (33) are purely imaginary, is invoked to conclude that the asymmetric branch inherits stability. At the special value $g=3$, an exact dark-soliton solution (39) connects two mirror-image asymmetric backgrounds and obeys the inversion symmetry $\varphi(-x)=-\psi(x)$. For general $g$, numerically stable dark solitons are found on asymmetric backgrounds, and the paper also finds that dark solitons and two-dimensional $S=1$ vortices can exhibit a shift between the components in their cores even when the supporting continuous-wave background is the fully mixed symmetric state.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the asymmetric wave branch stays modulationally stable for every density above the threshold, argued only from the symmetric state's stability at the bifurcation point rather than from a direct stability check of the asymmetric branch.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • In a Rabi-coupled binary condensate with repulsive interactions and $g>1$, a uniform mixed state should spontaneously develop unequal component densities once the total density exceeds $2\kappa/(g-1)$.
  • In a self-defocusing birefringent fiber ($g=2$), the asymmetric polarization state is modulationally stable, so the CW asymmetry should persist over long propagation distances rather than breaking into bright-soliton chains.
  • Dark solitons exist on the asymmetric background for general $g$, with an exact stable solution at $g=3$; their hallmark is zero-crossing points in both components, which ordinary symmetric dark solitons do not have.
  • The core splitting ('inner immiscibility') can also occur in dark solitons and unit-charge vortices supported by a fully miscible symmetric background, and even for $g\le 1$, with the variational prediction $\kappa_c=(7g-1)n/24$.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because the stability of the asymmetric branch away from threshold is inferred rather than computed directly, a targeted Bogoliubov analysis of the exact solution (17)-(18) for $n>n_{\rm thr}$ would close the main gap in the analytic argument and would either confirm or overturn the exchange-of-stability assumption.
  • The inner-immiscibility mechanism is a general one: where the two components have opposite signs, the linear-mixing energy term changes sign, so localized cores can demix even when the homogeneous background cannot; this suggests looking for the same effect in discrete nonlinear lattices and in spin-orbit-coupled condensates.
  • A concrete experimental test in the fiber setting ($g=2$) is to launch the polarization-symmetric state just above threshold and measure the output polarization; the paper predicts a reproducible asymmetry, while the competing prediction of modulational breakup would produce a fluctuating or pulsing output.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript studies a two-component defocusing Gross-Pitaevskii / nonlinear-Schrödinger system with linear coupling κ and cross-repulsion g, in one and two dimensions. It reports spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of continuous-wave (CW) states for g > 1, with an exact asymmetric CW solution (Eqs. 17–18), an energy argument showing this state is energetically favored (Eq. 24), and a modulational-stability analysis at the SSB bifurcation point (Eqs. 32–33). It also presents an exact dark-soliton (DS) solution at g = 3 (Eq. 39), numerically found stable DSs for g ≠ 3, including states with 'inner immiscibility' in the DS core on a miscible background, and stable 2D vortex states with inter-component core shifts. The central claim is that these symmetry-broken states are stable and observable in defocusing nonlinear fibers and Rabi-coupled BECs.

Significance. If correct, the paper establishes a new and simple setting for spontaneous symmetry breaking in a free-space defocusing two-component system, with exact analytical control over the CW and one special DS solution. The analytic derivations are self-contained and contain no fitted parameters: the asymmetric CW solution, the energy comparison, the MI dispersion at threshold, and the g = 3 DS obtained by symmetry from a known domain-wall solution are all explicit and checkable. The predicted outer and inner immiscibility thresholds (Eqs. 50 and 55) are falsifiable. The numerical results, if backed by quantitative evidence, would provide convincing support for the DS and vortex stability claims. The paper is likely to be of interest to the nonlinear-optics and BEC communities.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section III.B, Eq. (32)-(33) and text after Eq. (33)] The statement that the asymmetric CW 'inherits the stability' from the symmetric state is an exchange-of-stability argument for the q = 0 SSB mode only. The dispersion relation (32) is derived for the symmetric CW at the bifurcation point, and it does not rule out finite-wavenumber modulational instabilities on the asymmetric branch for -k strictly above 2κ/(g-1). Because the asymmetric branch has unequal component densities, its Bogoliubov spectrum differs from that of the symmetric state. This gap is load-bearing, since the stability of the DS in Fig. 1(a) and the vortex in Fig. 4 presupposes a stable asymmetric CW background. The authors should either compute the Bogoliubov spectrum of the asymmetric CW (a constant-coefficient linearization, which should be tractable analytically or numerically) or provide quantitative numerical evidence of stability for the parameter values used in the simulations, including the perturbation amplitudes and evolution times.
  2. [Section IV (numerical methodology, Figs. 1-5)] The numerical stability claims are not supported by quantitative details. No grid spacing, time step, integration scheme, or final simulation time is reported, and no convergence tests for the imaginary-time propagation are described. The statement in Section IV.A that 'systematic simulations of perturbed evolution' verify stability is therefore difficult to assess. This is especially important because the paper claims stability for a range of g and κ values (e.g., g = 0.1 and 0.6 in Fig. 2, and the vortex states in Fig. 5) and also asserts instability of the PT-potential DS without showing details. The authors should report the numerical parameters, describe the perturbation procedure, and provide at least one convergence check against an exact solution (e.g., the g = 3 DS (39) or the asymmetric CW (17)-(18)).
minor comments (5)
  1. [Eq. (21)] The phrase 'cf. Eq. (21)' after Eq. (21) is self-referential and likely intended to refer to Eq. (14) or Eq. (20); please correct the cross-reference.
  2. [Section IV.A and Fig. 3 caption] The description of the solid and dashed lines in Fig. 3 is inconsistent: the text states that the dashed line corresponds to Eq. (50), while the caption states that the solid line with crosses is given by Eq. (50). Please reconcile the text and caption.
  3. [Section IV.B, Eq. (52)] The variational ansatz (52) assumes the symmetric DS profile as the background for the inner-immiscibility calculation. The paper should state more explicitly that this approximation applies only to the symmetric-CW-background case and cannot describe the outer-immiscibility regime.
  4. [Abstract and title] The abstract and title contain typographical errors ('dark so litons', 'a nd', 'e.g.'); these should be corrected in the final version.
  5. [Section IV.A and V] The numerical scheme used for imaginary-time and real-time propagation is not described. A brief statement of the discretization (e.g., split-step Fourier or finite difference) and boundary-condition treatment would improve reproducibility.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: exact CW, DS, and variational results are derived from the stated GP equations with no fitted inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained from the stated coupled GP equations (2)-(3)/(56)-(57). The asymmetric CW solution (17)-(18) is obtained by direct factorization of the algebraic stationary equations (11)-(12), and the energy comparison (24) follows by substituting those expressions into the Hamiltonian density (9); no parameter is fitted to the subsequent predictions. The modulational-stability computation (32)-(33) is an independent linear-stability calculation for the symmetric state at the SSB threshold, and while the statement that the asymmetric CW 'inherits the stability' (Section III B) is an exchange-of-stability assertion rather than a proof away from threshold, that is an extrapolation gap, not a circular reduction: the stability claim is not defined in terms of the target result. The exact DS (39) is obtained by applying the symmetry substitution (36) to the previously known DW solution (37) from Ref. [36]; this is a self-citation, but the result is a parameter-free explicit function that can be verified directly in Eqs. (5)-(6), so it is not load-bearing in the sense of an unverifiable appeal. The variational threshold (55) for inner immiscibility is a variational prediction with a free parameter, not a fit to the numerics, and the numerical boundaries in Figs. 1-3 are compared with, not used to construct, the analytic criteria. No fitted input is later renamed as a prediction, and no uniqueness or forcing theorem is imported from the authors' prior work. The likely weakness, absence of a finite-q Bogoliubov analysis on the asymmetric branch away from threshold, is a rigor/completeness issue, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central results use no fitted parameters: g, κ, and k are model inputs. The artificial Pöschl-Teller potential and the variational ansatz are introduced as analytical tools. The eigenvalue/linearization stability statements and the finite-size numerical treatment are the main unproved background assumptions.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The coupled GP equations (2)-(3) faithfully model circular polarizations in a defocusing fiber (g=2) and Rabi-coupled binary BECs.
    Section II states this mapping; all physical interpretation and experimental relevance depend on it.
  • domain assumption Modulational stability of the symmetric CW at the SSB threshold transfers to the asymmetric CW branch away from threshold.
    Section III B, after Eq. (33): 'the asymmetric CW inherits the stability'; this is standard bifurcation expectation but not proven for all k.
  • ad hoc to paper The Pöschl-Teller potential (42)-(44) with specially selected W and α is an artificial addition, not part of the original free-space model.
    Section III D; W and α are chosen so that the exact DS (45) satisfies the modified equations.
  • ad hoc to paper The variational ansatz (52) with sech/tanh profiles is a sufficiently general trial family for the DS inner-immiscibility analysis.
    Section IV B; the ansatz is a guess; its predicted critical κ has an artifact for g<1/7, acknowledged in the paper.
  • domain assumption Finite periodic computational domains (L=100 in 1D, L=20-30 in 2D) are large enough that boundary conditions do not affect the stability conclusions.
    Section IV A states the aim to preclude boundary artifacts; no systematic L-convergence study is shown.

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We introduce a model governing the copropagation of two components which represent circular polarizations of light in the optical fiber with relative strength g = 2 of the nonlinear repulsion between the components, and linear coupling between them. A more general system of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations, with g =/= 2 and the linear mixing between the components, is considered too. The latter system is introduced in its one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) forms. A new finding is the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of bimodal CW (continuous-wave) states in the case of g > 1 (in the absence of the linear coupling, it corresponds to the immiscibility of the nonlinearly interacting components). The SSB is represented by an exact asymmetric CW solution. An exact solution is also found, in the case of g = 3, for stable dark solitons (DSs) supported by the asymmetric CW background. For g =/= 3, numerical solutions are produced for stable DSs supported by the same background. Moreover, we identify a parameter domain where the fully miscible (symmetric) CW background maintains stable DSs with the inner SSB (separation between the components) in its core. In 2D, the GP system produces stable vortex states with a shift between the components and broken isotropy. The vortices include ones with the inter-component shift imposed by the asymmetric CW background, and states supported by the symmetric background, in which the intrinsic shift (splitting) is exhibited by vortical cores of the two components.

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