Zhiyong XuYaroslav V. KartashovLluis Torner2016-06-082016-06-080146-9592http://hdl.handle.net/1885/102332We address the stability of multipole-mode solitons in nonlocal Kerr-type nonlinear media. Such solitons comprise several out-of-phase peaks packed together by the forces acting between them. We discover that dipole-, triple-, and quadrupole-mode solitons can be made stable, whereas all higher-order soliton bound states are unstable.3 pages© 2005 Optical Society of Americastabilitymultipole-modesolitonsnonlocalKerr-typenonlinearmediaout-of-phasepeaksdipoletriplequadrupole-modestableunstablehigher-order2005-12-0110.1364/OL.30.003171