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We study a spherical, self-gravitating fluid model, which finds applications in cosmic structure formation. We argue that since the system features nonlinearity and gravity-induced dispersion, the emergence of solitons becomes possible. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-21 G. N. Koutsokostas , S. Sypsas , O. Evnin , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We consider fifth-order nonlinear dispersive $K(m,n,p)$ type equations to study the effect of nonlinear dispersion. Using simple scaling arguments we show, how, instead of the conventional solitary waves like solitons, the interaction of…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Bishwajyoti Dey , Avinash Khare

A theory of the non-symmetric Landau-Zener tunneling of Bose-Einstein condensates in deep optical lattices is presented. It is shown that periodic exchange of matter between the bands is described by a set of linearly coupled nonlinear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 V. V. Konotop , P. G. Kevrekidis , M. Salerno

The nonlinear stage of modulational instability in optical fibers induced by a wide and easily accessible class of localized perturbations is studied using the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. It is showed that the development of associated…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-14 Matteo Conforti , Sitai Li , Gino Biondini , Stefano Trillo

In the present paper an introduction to the new subject of nonlinear dispersive hamiltonian equations on graphs is given. The focus is on recently established properties of solutions in the case of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Special…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Diego Noja

It is shown that the periodic DNLS, with cubic nonlinearity, possesses gap solutions, i. e. standing waves, with the frequency in a spectral gap, that are exponentially localized in spatial variable. The proof is based on the linking…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Pankov

We elaborate a fractional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (FDNLS) equation based on an appropriately modified definition of the Riesz fractional derivative, which is characterized by its L\'{e}vy index (LI). This FDNLS equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-09-04 Ming Zhong , Boris A. Malomed , Zhenya Yan

The discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on \(\Z^d\), \(d \geq 1\) is an example of a dispersive nonlinear wave system. Being a Hamiltonian system that conserves also the \(\ell^2(\Z^d)\)-norm, the well-posedness of the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Aleksis Vuoksenmaa

We study systematically the scattering of solitons on localized impurities in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) equation with a saturable nonlinearity. We show that, apart from the generic scenario of the outcome of the scattering…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-19 J. F. Tsoplefack , F. Palmero , J. Cuevas-Maraver , A. Provata , 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 existence of ``dispersion-managed solitons'', i.e., stable pulsating solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with periodically modulated and sign-variable dispersion is now well known in nonlinear optics. Our…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon Clarke , Boris A. Malomed , Roger Grimshaw

We study a discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice with a parabolic trapping potential. The model, describing, e.g., an array of repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate droplets confined in the wells of an optical lattice, is analytically and…

We investigate solitons and nonlinear Bloch waves in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical lattices. By introducing specially designed localized profiles of the spatial modulation of the attractive nonlinearity, we construct an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Jie-Fang Zhang , Yi-Shen Li , Jianping Meng , Lei Wu , Boris A. Malomed

Nonlinear periodic systems, such as photonic crystals and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) loaded into optical lattices, are often described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a sinusoidal potential. Here, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-27 Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

In this paper, we consider a general form of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with time-dependent nonlinearity. Based on the linear eigenvalue problem, the complete integrability of such nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation is identified by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-01-06 Shou-Fu Tian , Li Zou , Qi Ding , Hong-Qing Zhang

The parametrically driven damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation serves as an amplitude equation for a variety of resonantly forced oscillatory systems on the plane. In this note, we consider its nodal soliton solutions. We show that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 N. V. Alexeeva , E. V. Zemlyanaya

The discrete multiscale analysis for boundary value problems in nonlinear discrete systems leads to a first order discrete modulational instability above a threshold amplitude for wave numbers beyond the zero of group velocity dispersion.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Leon , M. Manna

We consider the modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water, which are described by a pair of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations. We derive a nonlinear dispersion relation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , I. Kourakis , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo

We study the dynamics of solitons under the action of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice potentials, fractional diffraction, and nonlinearity. The formation and stability of the solitons is investigated in the framework of the fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-11 Eduard Pavlyshynets , Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed , Alexander Yakimenko

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation supports solitons -- self-interacting, localized states that behave as nearly independent objects. We exhibit solitons with self-induced nonreciprocal dynamics in a discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro , Wladimir Alejandro Benalcazar