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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…

In the present work we explore the potential of models of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) type to support spatially localized and temporally quasiperiodic solutions on top of a finite background. Such solutions are rigorously…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-16 E. G. Charalampidis , G. James , J. Cuevas-Maraver , D. Hennig , N. I. Karachalios , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider an array of double oligomers in an optical waveguide device. A mathematical model for the system is the coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations, where the gain-and-loss parameter contributes to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-22 O. B. Kirikchi , N. Karjanto

We demonstrate the existence of two species of stable bright solitons, fundamental and dipole ones, in one-dimensional self-defocusing nonlocal media, with the local value of nonlinearity coefficient having one or several minima and growing…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yingji He , Boris A. Malomed

We study focussing discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations and present a new variational existence proof for homoclinic standing waves (bright solitons). Our approach relies on the constrained maximization of an energy functional and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 Michael Herrmann

We report that defocusing cubic media with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearity, whose strength increases rapidly enough toward the periphery, can support stable bright localized modes. Such nonlinearity landscapes give rise to a variety of…

We report that infinite and semi-infinite lattices with spatially inhomogeneous self-defocusing (SDF)\ onsite nonlinearity, whose strength increases rapidly enough toward the lattice periphery, support stable unstaggered (UnST) discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-17 Goran Gligoric , Aleksandra Maluckov , Ljupco Hadzievski , Boris Malomed

We consider a two-dimensional (2D) generalization of a recently proposed model [Phys. Rev. E 88, 032905 (2013)], which gives rise to bright discrete solitons supported by the defocusing nonlinearity whose local strength grows from the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , A. Saxena , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

In the present work, we numerically explore the existence and stability properties of different types of configurations of dark-bright solitons, dark-bright soliton pairs and pairs of dark-bright and dark solitons in discrete settings,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Alvarez , J. Cuevas , F. R. Romero , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this paper, we examine in detail the principal branches of solutions that arise in vector discrete models with nonlinear inter-component coupling and four wave mixing. The relevant four branches of solutions consist of two single mode…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. Horne , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker

We analyze the existence and stability of localized solutions in the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation with a combination of competing self-focusing cubic and defocusing quintic onsite nonlinearities. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , J. D. Talley , C. Chong , B. A. Malomed

We study heteroclinic standing waves (dark solitons) in discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with defocussing nonlinearity. Our main result is a quite elementary existence proof for waves with monotone and odd profile, and relies on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Michael Herrmann

We present a comprehensive analysis of the form and interaction of dipolar bright solitons across the full parameter space afforded by dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, revealing the rich behaviour introduced by the non-local nonlinearity.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-13 M. J. Edmonds , T. Bland , R. Doran , N. G. Parker

An analysis of discrete systems is important for understanding of various physical processes, such as excitations in crystal lattices and molecular chains, the light propagation in waveguide arrays, and the dynamics of Bose-condensate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-06 E. N. Tsoy , B. A. Umarov

We study statically homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with spatially inhomogeneous interactions and outline an experimental realization of compensating linear and nonlinear potentials that can yield constant-density solutions. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-09-26 Scott Holmes , Mason A. Porter , Peter Krüger , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

It has been recently demonstrated that self-defocusing (SDF) media with the cubic nonlinearity, whose local coefficient grows from the center to periphery fast enough, support stable bright solitons, without the use of any linear potential.…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

We study a two-component nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger system with equal, repulsive cubic interactions and different dispersion coefficients in the two components. We consider states that have a dark solitary wave in one component. Treating…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-28 E. G. Charalampidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed

In the present work, we examine "binary" waveguide arrays, where the coupling between adjacent sites alternates between two distinct values $C_1$ and $C_2$ and a saturable nonlinearity is present on each site. Motivated by experimental…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-22 Andrey Kanshu , Christian E. Rüter , Detlef Kip , Jesús Cuevas , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Solitons are non-dispersive wave solutions that arise in a diverse range of nonlinear systems, stablised by a focussing or defocussing nonlinearity. First observed in shallow water, solitons have subsequently been studied in many other…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. L. Marchant , T. P. Billam , T. P. Wiles , M. M. H. Yu , S. A. Gardiner , S. L. Cornish

We present a brief overview of the basic concepts of the soliton stability theory and discuss some characteristic examples of the instability-induced soliton dynamics, in application to spatial optical solitons described by the NLS-type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-04-23 Yuri S. Kivshar , Andrey A. Sukhorukov
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