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A nonlinear Schrodinger equation arising from light propagation down an inhomogeneous medium is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the non-linear term in the equation. In particular, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Marangell , C. K. R. T. Jones , H. Susanto

We characterize the full family of soliton solutions sitting over a background plane wave and ruled by the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the regime where a quintic focusing term represents a saturation of the cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Crosta , A. Fratalocchi , S. Trillo

The subject of the work are pairs of linearly coupled PT-symmetric dimers. Two different settings are introduced, namely, straight-coupled dimers, where each gain site is linearly coupled to one gain and one loss site, and cross-coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-13 K. Li , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

In this paper we study the behavior of solutions of a nonlinear Schroedinger equation in presence of an external potential, which is allowed to be singular at one point. We show that the solution behaves like a solitary wave for long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Claudio Bonanno

Here we first present an alternative formulation of the Lewis & Riesenfeld theorem for solving the Schr\"odinger equation with nonautonomous Hermitian and pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We then employ this framework to characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 L. F. Alves da Silva , M. H. Y. Moussa

Discrete solitons of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (dNLS) equation become compactly supported in the anti-continuum limit of the zero coupling between lattice sites. Eigenvalues of the linearization of the dNLS equation at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-06 Dmitry Pelinovsky , Anton Sakovich

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Josselin Garnier , Fatkhulla Abdullaev , Mario Salerno

We propose a mechanism for realization of exact control of parity-time (PT) symmetry by using a periodically modulated nonlinear optical coupler with balanced gain and loss. It is shown that for certain appropriately chosen values of the…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-26 Baiyuan Yang , Xiaobing Luo , QiangLin Hu , XiaoGuang Yu

Operator splitting methods combined with finite element spatial discretizations are studied for time-dependent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. In particular, the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Winfried Auzinger , Thomas Kassebacher , Othmar Koch , Mechthild Thalhammer

The long-term behavior of a modulationally unstable conservative nonintegrable system is known to be characterized by the soliton turbulence self-organization process. We consider this problem in the presence of a long-range interaction in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-31 Josselin Garnier , Kilian Baudin , Adrien Fusaro , Antonio Picozzi

We investigate a parity-time (PT) symmetric system that consists of two symmetrically coupled asymmetric dimers. The enclosed magnetic flux controls the PT phase transition. The system can reenter the exact PT-symmetric phase from a broken…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-28 L. Jin

The long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the line with symmetric, nonzero boundary conditions at infinity is studied in the case of initial conditions that allow for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Gino Biondini , Sitai Li , Dionyssios Mantzavinos

We address the universal applicability of the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation. By employing an original but general top-down/bottom-up procedure based on symmetry analysis to the case of optical lattices, we derive the most widely…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Fratalocchi , G. Assanto

For the first time, the general nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is investigated, in which the chromatic dispersion and potential are specified by two arbitrary functions. The equation in question is a natural generalization of a wide class…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-12-03 Andrei D. Polyanin , Nikolay A. Kudryashov

We develop a formalism relating nonlocal current continuity to spatial symmetries of subparts in discrete Schr\"odinger systems. Breaking of such local symmetries hereby generates sources or sinks for the associated nonlocal currents. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 C. V. Morfonios , P. A. Kalozoumis , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

Using similarity transformations we construct explicit solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with linear and nonlinear periodic potentials. We present explicit forms of spatially localized and periodic solutions, and study their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan Belmonte Beitia , Vladimir V. Konotop , Victor M. Perez Garcia , Vadym E. Vekslerchik

In the present work we consider the subject of dark fractional solitary waves in the realm of generalized (fractional) forms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. While earlier studies have examined such states in the realm of real…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-21 Almudena P. Márquez , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We present a unified theoretical study of the bright solitons governed by self-focusing and defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations with generalized parity-time (PT)-symmetric Scarff II potentials. Particularly, a PT-symmetric…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-30 Zhenya Yan , Zichao Wen , Chao Hang

The subject of PT-symmetry and its areas of application have been blossoming over the past decade. Here, we consider a nonlinear Schr\"odinger model with a complex potential that can be tuned controllably away from being PT-symmetric, as it…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-26 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , Y. Kominis

We study the dynamics and pairwise interactions of dark soliton stripes in the two-dimensional defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. By employing a variational approach we reduce the dynamics for dark soliton stripes to a set of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-10-30 L. A. Cisneros-Ake , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis