Dynamics of multidimensional fundamental and vortex solitons in random media

Abstract

We study the dynamics of fundamental and vortex solitons in the framework of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the spatial dimension $D\geqslant 2$ with a multiplicative random term depending on the time and space coordinates. To this end, we develop a new technique for calculating the even moments of the $N$th order. The proposed formalism does not use closure procedures for the nonlinear term, as well as the smallness of the random term and the use of perturbation theory. The essential point is the quadratic form of the autocorrelation function of the random field and the special stochastic change of variables. Using variational analysis to determine the field of structures in the deterministic case, we analytically calculate a number of statistical characteristics describing the dynamics of fundamental and vortex solitons in random medium, such as the mean intensities, the variance of the intensity, the centroid and spread of the structures, the spatial mutual coherence function etc. In particular, we show that, under the irreversible action of fluctuations, the solitons spread out, i.e., no collapse occurs.