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The damped and parametrically driven nonlinear Dirac equation with arbitrary nonlinearity parameter $\kappa$ is analyzed, when the external force is periodic in space and given by $f(x) =r\cos(K x)$, both numerically and in a variational…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-02-19 Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Niurka R. Quintero , Bernardo Sánchez-Rey , Franz G. Mertens , Avadh Saxena

We derive an exact solitary wave solution for the $\PTb$-symmetric nonlinear Dirac equation with a scalar-scalar interaction. We consider a power-law nonlinearity of the form $|\bar{\Psi}\,\Psi|^{k}\,\Psi$ for positive values of $k$. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-22 Fernando Carreño-Navas , Siannah Peñaranda , Renato Alvarez-Nodarse , Niurka R. Quintero

This paper is devoted to the investigation of long-time behaviour of solutions to wave equations with quadratic nonlinearity and cubic Dirac equations with Hartree-type nonlinearity. We consider the nonlinearity here with enough simplicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Seokchang Hong

We study the behavior of perturbations in a compressible one-dimensional inviscid gas with an ambient state consisting of constant pressure and periodically-varying density. We show through asymptotic analysis that long-wavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 David I. Ketcheson , Giovanni Russo

We study the long-time behavior of small and large solutions to a broad class of nonlinear Dirac-type equations. Our results are classified in 1D massless and massive cases, 3D general and $n$ dimensional in generality. In the 1D massless…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Sebastian Herr , Christopher Maulén , Claudio Muñoz

We obtain exact solutions of the nonlinear Dirac equation in 1+1 dimension of the form $ \Psi(x,t) =\Phi(x) \rme^{-\rmi \omega t}$ where the nonlinear interactions are a combination of vector-vector and scalar-scalar interactions with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-17 Avinash Khare , Fred Cooper , John F. Dawson , Avadh Saxena

Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 Guenbo Hwang , T. R. Akylas , Jianke Yang

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

We consider the massless nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation in $1+1$ dimension with scalar-scalar self-interaction $\frac{g^2}{2} (\bar{\Psi} \Psi)^2$ in the presence of three external electromagnetic potentials $V(x)$, a potential barrier, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Niurka R. Quintero , Franz G. Mertens , Fred Cooper , Avadh Saxena , A. R. Bishop

We present trapped solitary wave solutions of a coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger system in $1$+$1$ dimensions in the presence of an external, supersymmetric and complex $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential. The Schr\"odinger system this work…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-02 Efstathios G. Charalampidis , John F. Dawson , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

Nonlinear Dirac equations in D+1 space-time are obtained by variation of the spinor action whose Lagrangian components have the same conformal degree and the coupling parameter of the self-interaction term is dimensionless. In 1+1…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 A. D. Alhaidari

We study stability of solitary wave solutions for the fractional generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation $$ \partial_t u- \partial_{x_1} D^{\alpha}u+ \tfrac{1}{m}\partial_{x_1}(u^m)=0, ~ (x_1,\dots,x_d)\in \mathbb{R}^d, \, \, t\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Oscar Riaño , Svetlana Roudenko

We use the perturbation theory to build solitary wave solutions $\phi_\omega(x)e^{-i\omega t}$ to the nonlinear Dirac equation in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 1$, with the Soler-type nonlinear term $f(\bar\psi\psi)\beta\psi$, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-01 Nabile Boussaid , Andrew Comech

It is known that there are nonlinear wave equations with localized solitary wave solutions. Some of these solitary waves are stable (with respect to a small perturbation of initial data) and have nonzero spin (nonzero intrinsic angular…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. E. Hoq

This paper presents a review of the current state-of-the-art of numerical methods for nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation. Several methods are extendedly proposed for the (1+1)-dimensional NLD equation with the scalar and vector self-interaction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 Jian Xu , Sihong Shao , Huazhong Tang

We consider the nonlinear Dirac equation with Soler-type nonlinearity concentrated at one point and present a detailed study of the spectrum of linearization at solitary waves. We then consider two different perturbations of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Nabile Boussaid , Claudio Cacciapuoti , Raffaele Carlone , Andrew Comech , Diego Noja , Andrea Posilicano

We study the spectral stability of the nonlinear Dirac operator in dimension $1+1$, restricting our attention to nonlinearities of the form $f(\langle\psi,\beta \psi\rangle_{\mathbb{C}^2}) \beta$. We obtain bounds on eigenvalues for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Danko Aldunate , Julien Ricaud , Edgardo Stockmeyer , Hanne Van Den Bosch

For the nonlinear Dirac equation with scalar self-interaction (the Soler model) in three spatial dimensions, we consider the linearization at solitary wave solutions and find the invariant spaces which correspond to different spherical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Nabile Boussaïd , Andrew Comech , Niranjana Kulkarni

In this paper we prove the existence and local uniqueness of stationary states for the nonlinear Dirac equation \[ i \sum_{j=0}^{3} \ga^j \pd_j \psi - m\psi + F(\bar{\psi}\psi)\psi =0 \] where $ m >0$ and $ F(s) = |s|^{\theta}$ for $ 1\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-15 Meijiao Guan

We study the Korteweg-de Vries-type equation dt u=-dx(dx^2 u+f(u)-B(t,x)u), where B is a small and bounded, slowly varying function and f is a nonlinearity. Many variable coefficient KdV-type equations can be rescaled into this equation. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Dejak , B. L. G. Jonsson