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The nonlinear Schroedinger equation has several families of quasi-periodic travelling waves, each of which can be parametrized up to symmetries by two real numbers: the period of the modulus of the wave profile, and the variation of its…

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We examine the existence and stability of nonlinear discrete vortex solitons in a square lattice when the standard discrete Laplacian is replaced by a fractional version. This creates a new, effective site-energy term, and a coupling among…

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The paper addresses the bistability caused by spontaneous symmetry breaking bifurcation in a one-dimensional periodically corrugated nonlinear waveguide pumped by coherent light at normal incidence. The formation and the stability of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-12 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

We study spatial and temporal solitons in the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric coupler with gain in one waveguide and loss in the other. Stability properties of the high- and low-frequency solitons are found to be completely determined by a single…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-05 N. V. Alexeeva , I. V. Barashenkov , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We study nonlinear properties of multilayer metamaterials created by graphene sheets separated by dielectric layers. We demonstrate that such structures can support localized nonlinear modes described by the discrete nonlinear…

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We study the dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) localized modes in the nonlinear lattice described by the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation, including a local linear or nonlinear defect. Discrete solitons pinned to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-09 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Boris A. Malomed

We develop the theoretical procedures for shifting the frequency of a single soliton and of a sequence of solitons of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The procedures are based on simple transformations of the soliton pattern in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-03 Quan M. Nguyen , Toan T. Huynh

We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-01 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We show that periodic longitudinal modulation of waveguide arrays with disclination can result in the appearance of previously unexplored Floquet modes bound to the disclination core. Such modes arise due to oscillations of the waveguides…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-19 K. Sabour , S. K. Ivanov , A. Ferrando , Y. V. Kartashov

We show that the balance between localized gain and nonlinear cubic dissipation in the twodimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation allows for existence of stable two-dimensional localized modes which we identify as solitons. Such modes…

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…

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We have found various families of two-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in quadratically nonlinear waveguide arrays. The families of unstaggered odd, even and twisted stationary solutions are thoroughly characterized and their stability…

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We investigate the dynamics of solitons of the cubic Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation (NLSE) with the following perturbations: non-parametric spatio-temporal driving of the form $f(x,t) = a \exp[i K(t) x]$, damping, and a linear term which…

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

We study the effect of lifting the degeneracy of vortex modes with a PT symmetric defect, using discrete vortices in a circular array of nonlinear waveguides as an example. When the defect is introduced, the degenerate linear vortex modes…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-11 Daniel Leykam , Vladimir V. Konotop , Anton S. Desyatnikov

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

We address the properties of surface-wave solitons on the interface between a semi-infinite homogeneous linear medium and a semi-infinite homogeneous nonlinear nonlocal medium. The stability, energy flow and FWHM of the surface wave…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhiwei Shi , Huagang Li , Qi Guo

We investigate the existence and linear stability of solitons in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices in the strong coupling regime. Focusing and defocusing nonlinearities are considered, giving rise to bright and dark solitons. In this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-21 Farrell Theodore Adriano , Abrari Noor Hasmi , Rudy Kusdiantara , Hadi Susanto

We consider the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a large class of rotationally symmetric, noncompact manifolds. We prove the existence of a solitary wave by perturbing off the flat Euclidean case. Furthermore, we study the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 David Borthwick , Roland Donninger , Enno Lenzmann , Jeremy L. Marzuola

We examine the existence and stability of discrete spatial solitons in coupled nonlinear lasing cavities (waveguide resonators), addressing the case of active defocusing media, where the gain exceeds damping in the low-amplitude limit. A…