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We study propagation of stationary waves in disordered non-linear media described by the non-linear Schroedinger equation and show that for given boundary conditions and a given coherent wave incident on a sample the number of solutions of…

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We use experiments, numerical simulations, and theoretical analysis to investigate the propagation of highly nonlinear solitary waves in periodic arrangements of dimer (two-mass) and trimer (three-mass) cell structures in one-dimensional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-12-21 Mason A. Porter , Chiara Daraio , Ivan Szelengowicz , Eric B. Herbold , P. G. Kevrekidis

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

To date, the influence of non-linear stratifications and two layer stratifications on internal wave propagation has been studied for two-dimensional wave fields in a cartesian geometry. Here, we use a novel wave generator configuration to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Samuel Boury , Philippe Odier , Thomas Peacock

We study the spreading of initially localized states in a nonlinear disordered lattice described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with random on-site potentials - a nonlinear generalization of the Anderson model of localization. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-11 M. Mulansky , A. Pikovsky

We study existence, stability, and dynamics of linear and nonlinear stationary modes propagating in radially symmetric multi-core waveguides with balanced gain and loss. We demonstrate that, in general, the system can be reduced to an…

In the work of Colliander et al. (2010), a minimal lattice model was constructed describing the transfer of energy to high frequencies in the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. In the present work, we present a systematic study of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-25 Ross Parker , Pierre Germain , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Alejandro Aceves , P. G. Kevrekidis

We report a new result concerning the dynamics of an initially localized wave packet in quantum nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices with a disordered potential. A class of nonlinear lattices with subquadratic power nonlinearity is considered.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin

We demonstrate symmetric wave propagations in asymmetric nonlinear quantum systems. By solving the nonlinear Sch\"ordinger equation, we first analytically prove the existence of symmetric transmission in asymmetric systems with a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Gaomin Wu , Yang Long , Jie Ren

We study the nonlinear dynamics of wave packets in honeycomb lattices, and show that, in quasi-1D configurations, the waves propagating in the lattice can be separated into left-moving and right-moving waves, and any wave packet composed of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Omri Bahat-Treidel , Mordechai Segev

We review recent progress in the dynamics of nonlinear lattice waves in heterogeneous media, which enforce complete wave localization in the linear wave equation limit, especially Anderson localization for random potentials, and Aubry-Andre…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-22 T. V. Laptyeva , M. V. Ivanchenko , S. Flach

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

We consider reflectionless wave propagation in networks modeled in terms of the nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NNLS) equation on metric graphs, for which transparent boundary conditions are imposed at the vertices. By employing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Mashrab Akramov , Jambul Yusupov , Matthias Ehrhardt , Hadi Susanto , Davron Matrasulov

We present a theory of electron, electromagnetic, and elastic wave propagation in systems consisting of non-overlapping scatterers in a host medium. The theory provides a framework for a unified description of wave propagation in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Modinos , N. Stefanou , I. E. Psarobas , V. Yannopapas

The nonreciprocal wave propagation in PT-symmetric periodic stack of binary dielectric layers characterised by balances loss and gain is analysed. The main mechanisms and resonant properties of the scattered plane waves are illustrated by…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-12 Oksana Shramkova , Giorgos Tsironis

Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 Guenbo Hwang , T. R. Akylas , Jianke Yang

We derive a non-linear supersymmetric sigma-model for the transport of light (classical waves) through a disordered medium. We compare this model with the well-established non-linear sigma-model for the transport of electrons (Schroedinger…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-12-17 B. Elattari , V. Kagalovsky , H. A. Weidenmueller

In the present work, we explore the case of a general PT-symmetric dimer in the context of two both linearly and nonlinearly coupled cubic oscillators. To obtain an analytical handle on the system, we first explore the rotating wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-26 J. Cuevas-Maraver , A. Khare , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Xu , A. Saxena

We consider the transfer of lattice wave packets through a tilted discrete breather (TDB) in opposite directions in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger model with asymmetric defects, which may be realized as a Bose-Einstein condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-27 Xiao-Dong Bai , Boris A. Malomed , Fu-Guo Deng

We probe the limits of nonlinear wave spreading in disordered chains which are known to localize linear waves. We particularly extend recent studies on the regimes of strong and weak chaos during subdiffusive spreading of wave packets [EPL…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-18 J. D. Bodyfelt , T. V. Laptyeva , Ch. Skokos , D. O. Krimer , S. Flach