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The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) in one dimension is considered in the presence of an intensity-dependent dispersion term. We study bright solitary waves with smooth profiles which extend from the limit where the dependence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-22 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , R. M. Ross

We discuss a discrete approach to the multiscale reductive perturbative method and apply it to a biatomic chain with a nonlinear interaction between the atoms. This system is important to describe the time evolution of localized solitonic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-23 G. A. Cassatella Contra , D. Levi

Since the realization of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in optical potentials, intensive experimental and theoretical investigations have been carried out for matter-wave solitons, coherent structures, modulational instability (MI), and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-17 Emmanuel Kengne , Wu-Ming Liu , Boris A. Malomed

We describe a nonlinear kagome lattice with nonlinear dynamics described by Klein-Gordon interactions with a scalar unknown at each node, such as might occur in a nonlinear electrical lattice. We show that the dispersion relation has three…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Jonathan AD Wattis , Pilar R Gordoa , Andrew Pickering

We consider the stochastic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation driven by linear multiplicative noise in the mass-supercritical case. Given arbitrary $K$ solitary waves with distinct speeds, we construct stochastic multi-solitons pathwisely in…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Michael Röckner , Yiming Su , Yanjun Sun , Deng Zhang

We study the bulk and surface nonlinear modes of the modified one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schroedinger (mDNLS) equation. A linear and a modulational stability analysis of the lowest-order modes is carried out. While for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-22 Mario I. Molina

We consider nonlinear Schrodinger equations with either local or nonlocal nonlinearities. In addition, we include periodic potentials as used, for example, in matter wave experiments in optical lattices. By considering the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Rémi Carles , Christof Sparber

In this paper, we employ a combination of analytical and numerical techniques to investigate the dynamics of lattice envelope vector soliton solutions propagating within a one-dimensional chain of flexible mechanical metamaterial. To model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-06-17 Antoine Demiquel , Vassos Achilleos , Georgios Theocharis , Vincent Tournat

Integrable fractional equations such as the fractional Korteweg-deVries and nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations are key to the intersection of nonlinear dynamics and fractional calculus. In this manuscript, the first discrete/differential…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-10-21 Mark J. Ablowitz , Joel B. Been , Lincoln D. Carr

A model including two nonlinear chains with linear and nonlinear couplings between them, and opposite signs of the discrete diffraction inside the chains, is introduced. For [$\chi ^{(3)}$] nonlinearity, the model finds two different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , Z. Musslimani

Embedded solitons are exceptional modes in nonlinear-wave systems with the propagation constant falling in the system's propagation band. An especially challenging topic is seeking for such modes in nonlinear dynamical lattices (discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-17 Hadi Susanto , Boris A. Malomed

The dynamics of models described by a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is studied. The nonlinearity in these models appears due to the coupling of the electronic motion to optical oscillators which are treated in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. K. Datta , K. Kundu

In the present work, we study coherent structures in a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice in which the coupling between waveguides is periodically modulated. Numerical experiments with single-site initial conditions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-23 Ross Parker , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , Alejandro Aceves

We study a system of inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations that emerge in optical media with a $\chi^{(2)}$ nonlinearity. This nonlinearity, whose local strength is subject to a cusp-shaped spatial modulation, $\chi^{(2)}\sim…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Van Duong Dinh , Amin Esfahani

In the present work, we examine "binary" waveguide arrays, where the coupling between adjacent sites alternates between two distinct values $C_1$ and $C_2$ and a saturable nonlinearity is present on each site. Motivated by experimental…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-22 Andrey Kanshu , Christian E. Rüter , Detlef Kip , Jesús Cuevas , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We study the Derivative Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation for generic initial data in a weighted Sobolev space that can support bright solitons (but exclude spectral singularities). Drawing on previous well-posedness results, we give a full…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Robert Jenkins , Jiaqi Liu , Peter Perry , Catherine Sulem

On examples of Bose-Einstein condensates embedded in two-dimensional optical lattices we show that in nonlinear periodic systems modulational instability and inter-band tunneling are intrinsically related phenomena. By direct numerical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Brazhnyi , V. V. Konotop , V. Kuzmiak

We study the convergence of solutions of the discrete nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation on an infinite lattice in the continuum limit, using recent tools developed in the context of nonlinear discrete dispersive equations. Our approach relies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Quentin Chauleur

The longstanding problem of moving discrete solitary waves in nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattices is revisited. The context is photorefractive crystal lattices with saturable nonlinearity whose grand-canonical energy barrier vanishes for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-25 T. R. O. Melvin , A. R. Champneys , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. Cuevas

Modulation instability in a nonlinear optical waveguide array with alternating positive and negative refractive indices is investigated analytically. Particular solutions of a system of coupled nonlinear equations are found. These solutions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-30 A. A. Dovgiy , A. I. Maimistov