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Breathers have been experimentally and theoretically found in many physical systems -- in particular, in integrable nonlinear-wave models. A relevant problem is to study the \textit{breather gas}, which is the limit, for $N\rightarrow…

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Exact solutions for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with inhomogeneous complex linear and nonlinear potentials are found. We have found localized and periodic solutions for a wide class of localized and periodic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Kh. Abdullaev , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno , A. V. Yulin

A nonlocal derivative NLS (nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger) equation describes modulations of waves in a stratified fluid and a continuous limit of the Calogero--Moser--Sutherland system of particles. For the defocusing version of this equation,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-01-28 Jinbing Chen , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

In this paper we investigate the emergence of time-periodic and and time-quasiperiodic (sometimes infinitely long lived and sometimes very long lived or metastable) solutions of discrete nonlinear wave equations: discrete sine Gordon,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Kevrekidis , M. I. Weinstein

We consider an infinite chain of particles linearly coupled to their nearest neighbours and subject to an anharmonic local potential. The chain is assumed weakly inhomogeneous. We look for small amplitude discrete breathers. The problem is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Guillaume James , Bernardo Sanchez-Rey , Jesus Cuevas

We revisit the problem of transverse instability of a 2D breather stripe of the sine-Gordon (sG) equation. A numerically computed Floquet spectrum of the stripe is compared to analytical predictions developed by means of multiple-scale…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-30 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-González , J. Cuevas-Maraver , D. J. Frantzeskakis , J. -G. Caputo , B. A. Malomed

We explore the dynamics of strongly localized periodic solutions (discrete solitons, or discrete breathers) in a finite one-dimensional chain of asymmetric vibro-impact oscillators. The model involves a parabolic on-site potential with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-12 I. Grinberg , O. V. Gendelman

We explore dynamics of discrete breathers and multi-breathers in finite one-dimensional chain. The model involves parabolic on-site potential with rigid constraints and linear nearest-neighbor coupling. The rigid non-ideal impact…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-28 Itay Grinberg , Oleg V. Gendelman

For a one-dimensional linear lattice, earlier work has shown how to systematically construct a slowly-decaying linear potential bearing a localized eigenmode embedded in the continuous spectrum. Here, we extend this idea in two directions:…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-05 Faustino Palmero , Mario I. Molina , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Solitons and breathers are nonlinear modes that exist in a wide range of physical systems. They are fundamental solutions of a number of nonlinear wave evolution equations, including the uni-directional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

The effect of discrete breathers (DBs) on macroscopic properties of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain with symmetric and asymmetric potentials is investigated. The total to kinetic energy ratio (related to specific heat), stress (related to…

We present analytical and numerical studies of phase-coherent dynamics of intrinsically localized excitations (breathers) in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear oscillator chains. We show that there are two qualitatively different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuriy A. Kosevich , Leonid I. Manevitch , Alexander V. Savin

We study a deterministic gas of breathers for the Focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The gas of breathers is obtained from a $N$-breather solution in the limit $N\to \infty$.\\ The limit is performed at the level of scattering data…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-02-09 Gregorio Falqui , Tamara Grava , Christian Puntini

We prove the existence of discrete breathers (time-periodic, spatially localized solutions) in weakly coupled ferromagnetic spin chains with easy-axis anisotropy. Using numerical methods we then investigate the continuation of discrete…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Speight , P. M. Sutcliffe

We demonstrate that stabilization of solitons of the multidimensional Schrodinger equation with a cubic nonlinearity may be achieved by a suitable periodic control of the nonlinear term. The effect of this control is to stabilize the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaspar D. Montesinos , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Pedro Torres

In this paper we consider a family of time-dependent 1-dimensional cubic Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with periodic potential. Exploiting semiclassical scaling and multiscale analysis, we derive an effective nonlinear Dirac equation, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Elena Danesi

We investigate the properties of discrete breathers in a Bose-Einstein condensate with two- and three-body interactions in optical lattice. In the tight-binding approximation the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with periodic potential for the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kh. Abdullaev , A. Bouketir , A. Messikh , B. A. Umarov

Nonlinearity and disorder are the recognized ingredients of the lattice vibrational dynamics, the factors that could be diminished, but never excluded. We generalize the concept of $q$-breathers -- periodic orbits in nonlinear lattices,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 M. V. Ivanchenko

We consider evolution of one-dimensional nonlinear-Schr\"odinger (NLS) two-soliton complexes (breathers) with narrow repulsive or attractive potentials (barrier or well, respectively). By means of systematic simulations, we demonstrate that…

Relying upon tools from the theory of integrable systems, we discuss the linear instability of the Kuznetsov-Ma breathers and the Akhmediev breathers of the focusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. We use the Darboux transformation to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Mariana Haragus , Dmitry Pelinovsky