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We study the existence and stability of fundamental bright discrete solitons in a parity-time (PT)-symmetric coupler composed by a chain of dimers, that is modelled by linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equations with gain and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-10-18 Omar B. Kirikchi , Alhaji A Bachtiar , Hadi Susanto

We study coupled unstaggered-staggered soliton pairs emergent from a system of two coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equations with the self-attractive on-site self-phase-modulation nonlinearity, coupled by the repulsive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-11 Robert A. Van Gorder , Andrew L. Krause , Boris A. Malomed , D. J. Kaup

${\mathcal PT}-$symmetric dimers with a time-periodic gain/loss function in a balanced configuration where the amount of gain equals that of loss are investigated analytically and numerically. Two prototypical dimers in the linear regime…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-19 Demetra Psiachos , Nikos Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

We study the nonlinear Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equation with a PT-symmetric potential. Using a hydrodynamic formulation and connecting the phase gradient to the field amplitude, allows for a reduction of the model to a Duffing or a generalized…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-30 H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , Q. Zhou , D. J. Frantzeskakis , V. Achilleos , R. Carretero-Gonzalez

Existence of localized modes supported by the PT-symmetric nonlinear lattices is reported. The system considered reveals unusual properties: unlike other typical dissipative systems it possesses families (branches) of solutions, which can…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-04-28 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

In the present work we propose a nonlinear anti-$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer, that at the linear level has been experimentally created in the realm of electric circuit resonators. We find four families of solutions, the so-called upper…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-27 A. S. Rodrigues , R. M. Ross , V. V. Konotop , A. Saxena , P. G. Kevrekidis

With perfectly balanced gain and loss, dynamical systems with indefinite damping can obey the exact PT-symmetry being marginally stable with a pure imaginary spectrum. At an exceptional point where the symmetry is spontaneously broken, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 Oleg N. Kirillov

We introduce a class of PT-symmetric systems which include mutually matched nonlinear loss and gain (inother words, a class of PT-invariant Hamiltonians in which both the harmonic and anharmonic parts are non-Hermitian). For a basic system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , Boris A. Malomed , Yuri S. Kivshar

It is known that multidimensional complex potentials obeying $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry may possess all real spectra and continuous families of solitons. Recently it was shown that for multi-dimensional systems these features can persist when…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-04 J. D'Ambroise , P. G. Kevrekidis

We have considered cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation along with supersymmetric $\mathcal{PT}$ like potential and obtained exact stationary solutions in terms of bright and brigh-dark interacting solitons. The $\mathcal{PT}$ broken and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-19 Niladri Ghosh , Amiya Das , Debraj Nath

A one dimensional, parity-time (${\cal PT}$)-symmetric magnetic metamaterial comprising split-ring resonators having both gain and loss is investigated. In the linear regime, the transition from the exact to the broken ${\cal PT}$-phase is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-11-25 G. P. Tsironis , N. Lazarides

We introduce four basic two-dimensional (2D) plaquette configurations with onsite cubic nonlinearities, which may be used as building blocks for 2D PT -symmetric lattices. For each configuration, we develop a dynamical model and examine its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Kai Li , P. G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed , Uwe Guenther

The real spectrum of bound states produced by PT-symmetric Hamiltonians usually suffers breakup at a critical value of the strength of gain-loss terms, i.e., imaginary part of the complex potential. On the other hand, it is known that the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-21 Eitam Luz , Vitaly Lutsky , Er'el Granot , Boris A. Malomed

We introduce the notion of a ${\cal PT}$-symmetric dimer with a $\chi^{(2)}$ nonlinearity. Similarly to the Kerr case, we argue that such a nonlinearity should be accessible in a pair of optical waveguides with quadratic nonlinearity and…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Li , D. A. Zezyulin , P. G. Kevrekidis , V. V. Konotop , F. Kh. Abdullaev

The Hamiltonian for a PT-symmetric chain of coupled oscillators is constructed. It is shown that if the loss-gain parameter $\gamma$ is uniform for all oscillators, then as the number of oscillators increases, the region of unbroken…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda , S. P. Klevansky

We introduce a system of two parallel-coupled discrete nonlinear Schroedinger (DNLS) inhomogeneous chains. Each one favors the unidirectional transmission of incident packets, in the opposite directions with respect to each other. Two…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-04-16 Stefano Lepri , Boris A. Malomed

We introduce a model based on the one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) with the critical (quintic) or supercritical self-focusing nonlinearity. We demonstrate that a family of solitons, which are unstable in this setting…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-22 Li Wang , Boris A. Malomed , Zhenya Yan

We derive a class of discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (DNLS) equations for general polynomial nonlinearity whose stationary solutions can be found from a reduced two-point algebraic problem. It is demonstrated that the derived class of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Dmitriev , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. A. Sukhorukov , N. Yoshikawa , S. Takeno

We generalize a finite parity-time (${\cal PT}$-) symmetric network of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger type and obtain general results on linear stability of the zero equilibrium, on the nonlinear dynamics of the dimer model, as well…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-02-14 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennadiy Burlak , Zhaopin Chen , Boris A. Malomed