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The propagation of localized edge modes in photonic honeycomb lattices, formed from an array of adiabatically varying periodic helical waveguides, is considered. Asymptotic analysis leads to an explicit description of the underlying…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-25 M. J. Ablowitz , C. W. Curtis , Y. -P. Ma

Parametric simultaneous solitary wave (simulton) excitations are shown possible in nonlinear lattices. Taking a one-dimensional diatomic lattice with a cubic potential as an example we consider the nonlinear coupling between the upper…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bambi Hu , Guoxiang Huang

Multiscale modelling aims to systematically construct macroscale models of materials with fine microscale structure. However, macroscale boundary conditions are typically not systematically derived, but rely on heuristic arguments,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Chen Chen , A. J. Roberts , J. E. Bunder

We consider several effects of the matter wave dynamics which can be observed in Bose-Einstein condensates embedded into optical lattices. For low-density condensates we derive approximate evolution equations, the form of which depends on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Brazhnyi , V. V. Konotop

We study the dynamics of femtosecond light pulse propagation in a cubic-quintic medium exhibiting dispersive effect up to the fourth order as well as self-frequency shift and self-steepening nonlinearity. A rich variety of periodic and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-19 Vladimir I. Kruglov , Houria Triki

We study localized traveling waves and chaotic states in strongly nonlinear one-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices. We show that the solitary waves are super-exponentially localized, and present an accurate numerical method allowing to find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Karsten Ahnert , Arkady Pikovsky

We investigate the dynamical properties of a strongly disordered micropolar lattice made up of cubic block units. This phononic lattice model supports both transverse and rotational degrees of freedom hence its disordered variant posses an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-12 A. Ngapasare , G. Theocharis , O. Richoux , Ch. Skokos , V. Achilleos

Nonlinear waves in a liquid with gas bubbles are studied. Higher order terms with respect to the small parameter are taken into account in the derivation of the equation for nonlinear waves. A nonlinear differential equation is derived for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-07-09 Nikolai A. Kudryashov , Dmitry I. Sinelshchikov

It is shown that by properly designing the spatial dependence of the nonlinearity it is possible to induce long-living Bloch oscillations of a localized wavepacket in a periodic potential. The results are supported both by analytical and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-16 M. Salerno , V. V. Konotop , Yu. V. Bludov

We consider the nonlinear stability of spectrally stable periodic waves in the Lugiato-Lefever equation (LLE), a damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with forcing that arises in nonlinear optics. So far, nonlinear stability of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Mariana Haragus , Mathew A. Johnson , Wesley R. Perkins , Björn de Rijk

We consider the scattering of elastic waves by highly oscillating anisotropic periodic media with bounded support. Applying the two-scale homogenization, we first obtain a constant coefficient second-order partial differential elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Shixu Meng

On the basis of the competing cubic-quintic nonlinearity model, stability (instability) of continuous waves in nonlocal random non-Kerr nonlinear media is studied analytically and numerically. Fluctuating media parameters are modeled by the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-04-24 Maxim A. Molchan

The broadening of one-dimensional Gaussian wave packets is presented in all textbooks on quantum mechanics. It is used to elucidate Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. The behaviour on a lattice is drastically different if the amplitude…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 K. Schönhammer

Perturbative partial-wave amplitudes diverge in cases with a massless exchanged particle in the $t$-channel. We argue that the divergence is an artifact of perturbation theory and give a prescription for the all-orders correction factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Marta Fuentes Zamoro , Benjamín Grinstein , Pablo Quílez

This work comes as the second part in a series of investigations into the dynamics of rotating waves as solutions to lattice dynamical systems. Such nonlinear waves as solutions to mathematical equations are of great interest throughout the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jason J. Bramburger

Recently, a new general wave phenomenon, namely "the anti-localization of non-stationary linear waves", has been introduced and discussed (Shishkina et al., J. Sound. Vib. 553, 2023, 117673). This is zeroing of the propagating component for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-09 Serge N. Gavrilov , Ekaterina V. Shishkina , Bogdan S. Borisenkov

We introduce the notion of asymptotic integrability into the theory of nonlinear wave equations. It means that the Hamiltonian structure of equations describing propagation of high-frequency wave packets is preserved by hydrodynamic…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-07-08 A. M. Kamchatnov

Recent studies have shown some unusual nonlinear dispersion behaviors that are disconnected from the linear regime. However, existing analytical techniques, such as perturbation methods, fail to correctly capture these behaviors. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Weijian Jiao

The introduction of nonlinearity alters the dispersion of elastic waves in solid media. In this paper, we present an analytical formulation for the treatment of finite-strain Bloch waves in one-dimensional phononic crystals. Considering…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-01 M. I. Hussein , R. Khajehtourian , M. H. Abedinnasab

The thermomagnetic instability of the critical state in superconductors is analysed with account of the dissipation and dispersion. The possibility is demonstrated of the existance of a nonlinear shok wave describing the final stage of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. A. Taylanov