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We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal

In this paper we study the behavior of solutions of a nonlinear Schroedinger equation in presence of an external potential, which is allowed to be singular at one point. We show that the solution behaves like a solitary wave for long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Claudio Bonanno

We study collective phenomena of self-propagating particles using the nonlinear Kramers equation. A solitary wave state appears from an instability of the spatially uniform ordered state with nonzero average velocity. Two solitary waves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Kazuya Ishibashi

In this paper we study the solitary waves for the coupled Schr\"odinger - Maxwell equations in three-dimensional space. We prove the existence of a sequence of radial solitary waves for these equations with a fixed $L^2$ norm. We study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Vladimir Georgiev

In the present work, we consider the existence, stability, and dynamics of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation. We start by introducing the Soler model of self-interacting spinors, and discuss its localized waveforms in one, two,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-10 J. Cuevas-Maraver , N. Boussaïd , A. Comech , R. Lan , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena

We consider a derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a general nonlinearity. This equation has a two parameter family of solitary wave solutions. We prove orbital stability/instability results that depend on the strength of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-06-18 Xiao Liu , Gideon Simpson , Catherine Sulem

We discuss the response of both moving and trapped solitary wave solutions of a nonlinear two-component nonlinear Schr\"odinger system in 1+1 dimensions to an anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ external periodic complex potential. The dynamical behavior…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-03 Efstathios G. Charalampidis , Fred Cooper , John F. Dawson , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

In this paper we establish existence and stability results concerning fully nontrivial solitary-wave solutions to 3-coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger system \[ i\partial_t u_{j}+\partial_{xx}u_{j}+ \left(\sum_{k=1}^{3} a_{kj}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Santosh Bhattarai

Solitary waves in one-dimensional periodic media are discussed employing the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic potential as a model. This equation admits two families of gap solitons that bifurcate from the edges of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-09-06 T. R. Akylas , Guenbo Hwang , Jianke Yang

A nonlinear Schrodinger equation arising from light propagation down an inhomogeneous medium is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the non-linear term in the equation. In particular, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Marangell , C. K. R. T. Jones , H. Susanto

For the nonlinear Dirac equation in (1+1)D with scalar self-interaction (Gross--Neveu model), with quintic and higher order nonlinearities (and within certain range of the parameters), we prove that solitary wave solutions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Andrew Comech , Tuoc Van Phan , Atanas Stefanov

We explore a prototypical two-dimensional model of the nonlinear Dirac type and examine its solitary wave and vortex solutions. In addition to identifying the stationary states, we provide a systematic spectral stability analysis,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-01 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena , A. Comech , R. Lan

This paper is concerned with the nonlinear Schrodinger lattice with nonlinear hopping. Via variation approach and the Nehari manifold argument, we obtain two types of solution: periodic ground state and localized ground state. Moreover, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Ming Cheng

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Santosh Bhattarai

The goal of this work is to determine classes of traveling solitary wave solutions for Lattice Boltzmann schemes by means of an hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in finite-difference solutions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

In this work we revisit the existence, stability and dynamics of unstable traveling solitary waves in the context of lattice dynamical systems. We consider a nonlinear lattice of an $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam type with the additional feature…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-16 H. Duran , H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein

Properties of solitary waves in pre-compressed Hertzian chains of particles are studied in the long wavelength limit using a well-known continuum model. Several main results are obtained by parameterizing the solitary waves in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Stephen C. Anco , Michelle Przedborski

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

The stability and dynamical properties of the so-called resonant nonlinear Schr\"odinger (RNLS) equation, are considered. The RNLS is a variant of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with the addition of a perturbation used to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-05 F. Williams , F. Tsitoura , T. P. Horikis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study the orbital stablity and instability of solitary wave solutions for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations of derivative type.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Masahito Ohta