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We introduce and systematically investigate the generation of dispersive shock waves, which arise naturally in physical settings such as optical waveguide arrays and superfluids confined within optical lattices. The underlying physically…

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In this paper we study a family of one-dimensional stationary cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations with periodic potentials and linear part displaying Dirac points in the dispersion relation. By introducing a suitable periodic…

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We investigate non-autonomous solitons in a general coherently coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger (CCNLS) system with temporally modulated nonlinearities and with an external harmonic oscillator potential. This general CCNLS system encompasses…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-17 R. Babu Mareeswaran , K. Sakkaravarthi , T. Kanna

Compactons are studied in the framework of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation with the sublinear nonlinearity. Compactons represent localized bell-shaped waves of either polarity which propagate to the same direction as waves of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-06-02 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Alexey V. Slunyaev , Anna V. Kokorina , Efim N. Pelinovsky

Discrete solitons of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (dNLS) equation become compactly supported in the anti-continuum limit of the zero coupling between lattice sites. Eigenvalues of the linearization of the dNLS equation at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-06 Dmitry Pelinovsky , Anton Sakovich

We study the stability properties of periodic solutions to the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with a periodic potential. We exploit the symmetries of the problem, in particular the Hamiltonian structure and the $\U(1)$ symmetry. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jared C. Bronski , Zoi Rapti

We study the modulational stability of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) using a time-dependent variational approach. Within this framework, we derive ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for the time evolution of the amplitude…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

We present what we believe to be the first known example of an exact quasiperiodic localized stable solution with spatially symmetric large-amplitude oscillations in a non-integrable Hamiltonian lattice model. The model is a one-dimensional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Magnus Johansson , Andrey V. Gorbach

In the work of Colliander et al. (2010), a minimal lattice model was constructed describing the transfer of energy to high frequencies in the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. In the present work, we present a systematic study of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-25 Ross Parker , Pierre Germain , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Alejandro Aceves , P. G. Kevrekidis

We report results of systematic simulations of the dynamics of solitons in the framework of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE), which includes the harmonic-oscillator (HO) potential and a random potential. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-30 Qian-Yong Chen , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed

Two-dimensional arrays of nonlinear electric oscillators are considered theoretically, where nearest neighbors are coupled by relatively small, constant, but non-equal capacitors. The dynamics is approximately reduced to a weakly…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-09 Victor P. Ruban

Motivated by recent proposals of ``collisionally inhomogeneous'' Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which have a spatially modulated scattering length, we study the existence and stability properties of bright and dark matter-wave solitons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Rodrigues , P. G. Kevrekidis , Mason A. Porter , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher , A. R. Bishop

We establish a sharp criterion for the stability of a class of compactly supported, homogeneous density``minimal compact solitons'' or MCS states, of the time-dependent discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a multi-lattice, $\mathbb…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-27 Cheng Shi , Ross Parker , Panayotis G. Kevrekides , Michael I. Weinstein

We prove two new results about the Cauchy problem for nonlinear Schroedinger equations on four-dimensional compact manifolds. The first one concerns global wellposedness for Hartree-type nonlinearities and includes approximations of cubic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Gérard , V. Pierfelice

We investigate the long time dynamics of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with combined powers on the waveguide manifold $\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{T}$. Different from the previously studied NLS-models with single power on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Luigi Forcella , Yongming Luo , Zehua Zhao

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Josselin Garnier , Fatkhulla Abdullaev , Mario Salerno

We derive a class of discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (DNLS) equations for general polynomial nonlinearity whose stationary solutions can be found from a reduced two-point algebraic problem. It is demonstrated that the derived class of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Dmitriev , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. A. Sukhorukov , N. Yoshikawa , S. Takeno

The existence of nonzero periodic travelling wave solutions for a general discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) on finite one-dimensional lattices is proved. The DNLS features a general nonlinear term and variable range of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Dirk Hennig

We study modulational instability of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice, which is modelled as a coupled discrete nonlinear Schr \"{o}dinger equation. The excitation spectrum and the modulational instability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Guang-Ri Jin , Chul Koo Kim , Kyun Nahm