title: Control on the anomalous interactions of Airy beams in nematic liquid crystals.
abstract: We reveal a controllable manipulation of anomalous interactions between Airy beams in nonlocal nematic liquid crystals numerically. With the help of an in-phase fundamental Gaussian beam, attraction between in-phase Airy beams can be suppressed or become a repulsive one to each other; whereas the attraction can be strengthened when the Gaussian beam is out-of-phase. In contrast to the repulsive interaction in local media, stationary bound states of breathing Airy soliton pairs are found in nematic liquid crystals.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ray-Kuang
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Lee