title: Spatial Thirring-type solitons via electromagnetically induced transparency.
abstract: We show that the giant Kerr nonlinearity in the regime of electromagnetically induced transparency in vapor can give rise to the formation of Thirring-type spatial solitons, which are supported solely by cross-phase modulation that couples the two copropagating light beams.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Inbal
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Friedler
authors.forename: Gershon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kurizki
authors.forename: Oren
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Mordechai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segev