Surface solitons supported by 𝒫𝒯-symmetric lattice with spatially modulated nonlinearity

Abstract

We report on the formation and stability of induced surface solitons in parity–time ([Formula: see text]) symmetric periodic systems with spatially modulated nonlinearity. We discover that the spatially modulation of the nonlinearity can affect the existence and stability of surface solitons. These surface solitons can be formed in the semi-infinite and first bandgap. Stability analysis shows that odd surface solitons belonging to semi-infinite bandgap are linearly stably in low power domain, and the stable domain becomes narrow with increasing the strength of spatially modulated nonlinearity, both even surface solitons in semi-infinite bandgap and surface solitons in first bandgap are unstable in their existence domain.