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We investigate the dynamical behavior of continuous and discrete Schrodinger systems exhibiting parity-time (PT) invariant nonlinearities. We show that such equations behave in a fundamentally different fashion than their nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-06-03 Amarendra K. Sarma , Mohammad-Ali Miri , Ziad H. Musslimani , Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Many classes of non-parity-time (PT) symmetric waveguides with arbitrary gain and loss distributions still possess all-real linear spectrum or exhibit phase transition. In this article, nonlinear light behaviors in these complex waveguides…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Sean Nixon , Jianke Yang

We investigate branched PT-symmetric optical lattices. We consider both the linear and nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with a PT-symmetric periodic potential on the graph and solve them by imposing weighted vertex boundary conditions. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-07 O. K. Tojakhmadova , T. Akhmadjanov , M. E. Akramov

We consider the stationary solutions for a class of Schroedinger equations with a symmetric double-well potential and a nonlinear perturbation. Here, in the semiclassical limit we prove that the reduction to a finite-mode approximation give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Reika Fukuizumi , Andrea Sacchetti

In the present work we propose a nonlinear anti-$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer, that at the linear level has been experimentally created in the realm of electric circuit resonators. We find four families of solutions, the so-called upper…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-27 A. S. Rodrigues , R. M. Ross , V. V. Konotop , A. Saxena , P. G. Kevrekidis

In the present work we examine both the linear and nonlinear properties of two related PT-symmetric systems of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger (dNLS) type. First, we examine the parameter range for which the finite PT-dNLS chains have…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-03-15 Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Dmitry Y. Tyugin

We examine a recently-proposed family of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 27:1771(1994)] with respect to a group of transformations that linearize a subfamily of them. We investigate the structure of the whole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 H. -D. Doebner , G. A. Goldin , P. Nattermann

In the present work, we consider a prototypical example of a PT-symmetric Dirac model. We discuss the underlying linear limit of the model and identify the threshold of the PT-phase transition in an analytical form. We then focus on the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-10-05 Jesús Cuevas--Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Avadh Saxena , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Andrew Comech , Carl M. Bender

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a potential in one space dimension. Under the assumptions that the potential is generic, sufficiently localized, and does not have bound states, we obtain the long time asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Pierre Germain , Fabio Pusateri , Frederic Rousset

We study the existence and stability of localized states in the two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS)/Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a symmetric four-well potential. Using a fourmode approximation, we are able to trace the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Wang , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , K. J. H. Law , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed

We introduce the study of nonlinear harmonic forms. These are forms which minimize the $L_2$ energy in a cohomology class subject to a nonlinear constraint. In this note, we include only motivations and the most basic existence results. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Mark Stern

Complex Wadati-type potentials of the form $V(x)=-w^2(x) + iw_x(x)$, where $w(x)$ is a real-valued function, are known to possess a number of intriguing features, unusual for generic non-Hermitian potentials. In the present work, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-16 Dmitry A. Zezyulin

We present a first principle derivation of the coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations that govern the interaction between two families of modes with different transverse profiles in a generic whispering-gallery-mode resonator. We find…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-13 Giuseppe D'Aguanno , Curtis R. Menyuk

Many physical systems can be described by nonlinear eigenvalues and bifurcation problems with a linear part that is non-selfadjoint e.g. due to the presence of loss and gain. The balance of these effects is reflected in an antilinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 Tomas Dohnal , Petr Siegl

We investigate complex versions of the Korteweg-deVries equations and an Ito type nonlinear system with two coupled nonlinear fields. We systematically construct rational, trigonometric/hyperbolic, elliptic and soliton solutions for these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Andrea Cavaglia , Andreas Fring , Bijan Bagchi

We present a systematic analysis of the stationary regimes of nonlinear parity-time(PT) symmetric laser composed of two coupled fiber cavities. We find that power-dependent nonlinear phase shifters broaden regions of existence of both…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sergey V. Suchkov , Dmitry V. Churkin , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

We prove the reality of the perturbed eigenvalues of some PT symmetric Hamiltonians of physical interest by means of stability methods. In particular we study 2-dimensional generalized harmonic oscillators with polynomial perturbation and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-21 Emanuela Caliceti , Francesco Cannata , Sandro Graffi

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

In this paper a nonlinear coupled Schrodinger system in the presence of mixed cubic and superlinear power laws is considered. A non standard numerical method is developed to approximate the solutions in higher dimensional case. The idea…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Abdurahman F. Aljohani , Anouar Ben Mabrouk

Nonlinear wave propagation in parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric localized potentials is investigated analytically near a phase-transition point where a pair of real eigenvalues of the potential coalesce and bifurcate into the complex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-29 Sean Nixon , Jianke Yang