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We consider the existence, stability and dynamics of the ground state and nonlinear excitations, in the form of dark solitons, for a quasi-one-dimensional polariton condensate in the presence of pumping and nonlinear damping. We find a…

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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Hans Christianson , Jeremy Marzuola

Discrete solitons in the Ablowitz-Ladik (AL) and discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) equations with damping and strong rapid drive are investigated. The averaged equations have the forms of the parametric AL and DNLS equations. A new…

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An analysis of discrete systems is important for understanding of various physical processes, such as excitations in crystal lattices and molecular chains, the light propagation in waveguide arrays, and the dynamics of Bose-condensate…

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We consider multiple solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with a partial confinement, which is physically relevant to dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensate. Our study not only verifies the existence of positive ground…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Liying Shan , Wei Shuai , Leyun Wu

We present a brief overview of the basic concepts of the soliton stability theory and discuss some characteristic examples of the instability-induced soliton dynamics, in application to spatial optical solitons described by the NLS-type…

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We study discrete vortices in the anti-continuum limit of the discrete two-dimensional nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equations. The discrete vortices in the anti-continuum limit represent a finite set of excited nodes on a closed discrete…

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We consider stationary and propagating solutions for a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodic optical potential with an additional confining optical or magnetic potential. Using an effective mass approximation we express the condensate…

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We study the fractional three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with exponential saturating nonlinearity. In the case of the L\'{e}vy index $\alpha=1.9$, this equation can be considered as a model equation to describe…

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We investigate the dynamics of travelling oscillating solitons of the cubic NLS equation under an external spatiotemporal forcing of the form $f(x,t) = a \exp[iK(t)x]$. For the case of time-independent forcing a stability criterion for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Franz G. Mertens , Niurka R. Quintero , I. V. Barashenkov , A. R. Bishop

We study numerically the nonlinear stage of modulational instability (MI) of cnoidal waves, in the framework of the focusing one-dimensional Nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation. Cnoidal waves are the exact periodic solutions of the NLS…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-09 D. S. Agafontsev , V. E. Zakharov

In this paper, we give a proof of the existence of stationary dark soliton solutions or heteroclinic orbits of nonlinear equations of Schr\"odinger type with periodic inhomogeneous nonlinearity. The result is illustrated with examples of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Belmonte-Beitia , J. Cuevas

We investigate nonlinear dynamics induced by the modulation instability of a two-component mixture in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The nonlinear dynamics is examined using numerical simulations of the time-dependent coupled…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

We consider the three-dimensional (3D) mean-field model for the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), with a 1D nonlinear lattice (NL), which periodically changes the sign of the nonlinearity along the axial direction, and the harmonic-oscillator…

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The long-time asymptotic behavior of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the line with symmetric nonzero boundary conditions at infinity is characterized by using the recently developed inverse scattering transform (IST)…

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The existence of compactons in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the presence of fast periodic time modulations of the nonlinearity is demonstrated. In the averaged DNLS equation the resulting effective inter-well tunneling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Kh. Abdullaev , P. G. Kevrekidis , M. Salerno

Coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations (CNLS) with an external elliptic function potential model a quasi one--dimensional interacting two-component Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a standing light wave. New families of stationary…

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We show how the analytical approach of Zakharov and Rubenchik [Sov. Phys. JETP {\bf 38}, 494 (1974)] to modulational instability (MI) of solitary waves in the nonlinear Schr\"oedinger equation (NLS) can be generalised for models with two…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitry V. Skryabin , William J. Firth

Modulation instability, rogue wave and spectral analysis are investigated for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with the higher-order terms. The modulation instability distribution characteristics from the sixth-order to the eighth-order…

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