title: Frustrated brownian motion of nonlocal solitary waves.
abstract: We investigate the evolution of solitary waves in a nonlocal medium in the presence of disorder. By using a perturbational approach, we show that an increasing degree of nonlocality may largely hamper the brownian motion of self-trapped wave packets. The result is valid for any kind of nonlocality and in the presence of nonparaxial effects. Analytical predictions are compared with numerical simulations based on stochastic partial differential equations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Folli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conti