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Roughly speaking a solitary wave is a solution of a field equation whose energy travels as a localised packet and which preserves this localisation in time. A soliton is a solitary wave which exhibits some strong form of stability so that…

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We study four different approximations for finding the profile of discrete solitons in the one-dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) Equation. Three of them are discrete approximations (namely, a variational approach, an…

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We analyze the existence and stability of localized solutions in the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation with a combination of competing self-focusing cubic and defocusing quintic onsite nonlinearities. We…

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In this paper, an existence theory is established for ring-profiled optical vortex solitons. We consider such solitons in the context of an electromagnetic light wave propagating in a self-focusing nonlinear media and governed by a…

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We introduce a generalized version of the Ablowitz-Ladik model with a power-law nonlinearity, as a discretization of the continuum nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the same type of the nonlinearity. The model opens a way to study the…

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Discrete solitons in the Ablowitz-Ladik (AL) and discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) equations with damping and strong rapid drive are investigated. The averaged equations have the forms of the parametric AL and DNLS equations. A new…

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This paper proves existence and stability results of solitary-wave solutions to coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with power-type nonlinearities arising in several models of modern physics. The existence of solitary waves is…

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Roughly speaking a solitary wave is a solution of a field equation whose energy travels as a localized packet and which preserves this localization in time. A soliton is a solitary wave which exhibits some strong form of stability so that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Vieri Benci , Donato Fortunato

We consider the discrete solitons bifurcating from the anti-continuum limit of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) lattice. The discrete soliton in the anti-continuum limit represents an arbitrary finite superposition of {\em…

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We construct a novel family of exact cnoidal wave and soliton solutions of the focusing and defocusing Ablowitz-Ladik equations. Unlike cnoidal waves that were obtained by earlier authors, the phase variable of the new solutions exhibits a…

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In the present paper we consider the coupled system of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with the fractional Laplacian \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^\alpha u_1 & = \lambda_1u_1+f_1(u_1)+\partial_1F(u_1,u_2)\ \ \mathrm{in}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Santosh Bhattarai

We consider the following nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation of derivative type: \begin{equation} i \partial_t u + \partial_x^2 u +i |u|^{2} \partial_x u +b|u|^4u=0 , \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}, \ b \in \mathbb{R}.…

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We present stable bright solitons built of coupled unstaggered and staggered components in a symmetric system of two discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equations with the attractive self-phase-modulation (SPM) nonlinearity, coupled…

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We examine the existence and stability of discrete spatial solitons in coupled nonlinear lasing cavities (waveguide resonators), addressing the case of active defocusing media, where the gain exceeds damping in the low-amplitude limit. A…