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The effective dynamics of solitons for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in a random potential is rigorously studied. It is shown that when the external potential varies slowly in space compared to the size of the soliton,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-06-17 Walid K. Abou Salem , Catherine Sulem

In this paper we study the long time behavior of a discrete approximation in time and space of the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the real line. More precisely, we consider a symplectic time splitting integrator applied to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-29 Dario Bambusi , Erwan Faou , Benoit Grebert

We analyze theoretically the Schrodinger-Poisson equation in two transverse dimensions in the presence of a Kerr term. The model describes the nonlinear propagation of optical beams in thermooptical media and can be regarded as an analogue…

Should it be a pebble hitting water surface or an explosion taking place underwater, concentric surface waves inevitably propagate. Except for possibly early times of the impact, finite amplitude concentric water waves emerge from a balance…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-28 R. Krechetnikov

We consider the problem of existence and stability of solitary traveling waves for the one dimensional discrete non linear Schroedinger equation (DNLS) with cubic nonlinearity, near the continuous limit.We construct a family of solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Joackim Bernier , Erwan Faou

We consider a two-component, two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger system with unequal dispersion coefficients and self-defocusing nonlinearities, chiefly with equal strengths of the self- and cross-interactions. In this setting, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-15 E. G. Charalampidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed

We investigate the dynamics of localized solutions of the relativistic cold fluid plasma model in the small but finite amplitude limit, for slightly overcritical plasma density. Adopting a multiple scale analysis, we derive a perturbed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 E. Siminos , G. Sánchez-Arriaga , V. Saxena , I. Kourakis

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying scattering length. It is demonstrated that, even in the absence of any external trapping potential, a soliton can be confined due to the inhomogeneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Theocharis , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

The stability and collapse of fundamental unstaggered bright solitons in the discrete Schrodinger equation with the nonpolynomial on-site nonlinearity, which models a nearly one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a deep optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Gligoric , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadzievski , B. A. Malomed

The semiclassical limit of the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation with periodic initial conditions is studied analytically and numerically. The spectrum of the associated scattering problem for a certain class of initial conditions,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-12-01 Zachery Wolski , Zechuan Zhang , Gino Biondini , Gregor Kovačič

We theoretically investigate the scattering of bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate on narrow attractive potential wells. Reflection, transmission and trapping of an incident soliton are predicted to occur with remarkably abrupt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-25 T. Ernst , J. Brand

We prove that line solitons of the two-dimensional hyperbolic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation are unstable with respect to transverse perturbations of arbitrarily small periods, {\em i.e.}, short waves. The analysis is based on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-16 D. E. Pelinovsky , E. A. Ruvinskaya , O. A. Kurkina , B. Deconinck

The Alber equation is a moment equation for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, formally used in ocean engineering to investigate the stability of stationary and homogeneous sea states in terms of their power spectra. In this work we…

Propagation of localized waves in a Fermi-Dirac distributed super dense matter at the presence of strong external magnetic fields is studied using the reductive perturbation method. Previous works indicate that localized waves break down in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-30 Azam Ghaani , Kurosh Javidanyand , Mohsen Sarbishaei

Motivated by recent progress in trapping Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in toroidal potentials, we examine solitary-wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation subject to periodic boundary conditions. When the circumference of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Smyrnakis , M. Magiropoulos , G. M. Kavoulakis , A. D. Jackson

We report results for solitons in models of waveguides with focusing or defocusing saturable nonlinearity and a parity-time(PT )-symmetric complex-valued external potential of the Scarf-II type. The model applies to the nonlinear wave…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-11 Pengfei Li , Dumitru Mihalache , Boris A. Malomed

In this paper we study microlocal singularities of solutions to Schrodinger equations on scattering manifolds, i.e., noncompact Riemannian manifolds with asymptotically conic ends. We characterize the wave front set of the solutions in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-22 Kenichi Ito , Shu Nakamura

We consider the Schr\"odinger evolution on graph, i.e. solution to the equation $\partial_tu(t,\alpha)=i\sum_{\beta\in\mathcal{A}}L(\alpha,\beta)u(t,\beta)$, here $\mathcal{A}$ is the set of vertices of the graph and the matrix…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Isaac Alvarez-Romero

Solitons confined in channels are studied in the two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We study the dynamics of two channel-guided solitons near the junction where two channels are merged. The two solitons merge into one…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Yusuke Kageyama , Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

The Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin-Ono nonlinear wave equations can describe solitary waves, all of which propagate in the same direction and which emerge from collisions with their shapes unchanged. There are technical challenges to giving…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-01 Brett Altschul