Accessible solitons of fractional dimension

• Analytic solutions of a fractional Schrödinger equation are obtained.
• The solutions are produced by means of self-similar method applied to the fractional Schrödinger equation with parabolic potential.
• The fractional accessible solitons form crescent, asymmetric single-layer and multilayer necklace profiles.
• The model applies to the propagation of optical pulses in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media.

We demonstrate that accessible solitons described by an extended Schrödinger equation with the Laplacian of fractional dimension can exist in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media. The soliton solutions of the model are constructed by two special functions, the associated Legendre polynomials and the Laguerre polynomials in the fraction-dimensional space. Our results show that these fractional accessible solitons form a soliton family which includes crescent solitons, and asymmetric single-layer and multi-layer necklace solitons.