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In recent years, bright soliton-like structures composed of gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates have been generated at ultracold temperature. The experimental capacity to precisely engineer the nonlinearity and potential landscape experienced…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 T. P. Billam , A. L. Marchant , S. L. Cornish , S. A. Gardiner , N. G. Parker

An overview is given of basic models combining discreteness in their linear parts (i.e. the models are built as dynamical lattices) and nonlinearity acting at sites of the lattices or between the sites. The considered systems include the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-31 Boris A. Malomed

We demonstrate that spatially inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinear landscapes with the nonlinearity coefficient growing toward the periphery as [1+abs(r)]**a support one- and two-dimensional fundamental and higher-order bright solitons, as…

We construct dark solitons in the recently introduced model of the nonlinear dual-core coupler with the mutually balanced gain and loss applied to the two cores, which is a realization of parity-time symmetry in nonlinear optics. The main…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-18 Yuliy V. Bludov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed

In the present work, we explore a nonlinear Dirac equation motivated as the continuum limit of a binary waveguide array model. We approach the problem both from a near-continuum perspective as well as from a highly discrete one. Starting…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-12-06 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. B. Aceves , A. Saxena

We consider the existence and spectral stability of nonlinear discrete localized solutions representing light pulses propagating in a twisted multi-core optical fiber. By considering an even number, $N$, of waveguides, we derive asymptotic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-29 Ross Parker , Yannan Shen , Alejandro Aceves , John Zweck

Conventionally, bright solitary wave solutions can be obtained in self-focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equations with attractive self-interaction. However, when self-interaction becomes repulsive, it seems impossible to have bright solitary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Tai-Chia Lin , Juncheng Wei

We investigate the existence and linear stability of solitons in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices in the strong coupling regime. Focusing and defocusing nonlinearities are considered, giving rise to bright and dark solitons. In this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-21 Farrell Theodore Adriano , Abrari Noor Hasmi , Rudy Kusdiantara , Hadi Susanto

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying nonlinearity. It is demonstrated that a translation mode is excited due to the spatial inhomogeneity and its frequency is derived analytically and also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Niarchou , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher , D. J. Frantzeskakis

Solitons and breathers are nonlinear modes that exist in a wide range of physical systems. They are fundamental solutions of a number of nonlinear wave evolution equations, including the uni-directional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

We uncover that, in contrast to the common belief, stable dissipative solitons exist in media with uniform gain in the presence of nonuniform cubic losses, whose local strength grows with coordinate x (in one dimension) faster than |x|. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 Olga V. Borovkova , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed , Lluis Torner

In the present work, we introduce a discrete formulation of the nonlinear Dirac equation in the form of a discretization of the Gross-Neveu model. The motivation for this discrete model proposal is both computational (near the continuum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-21 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena

Recent work has explored binary waveguide arrays in the long-wavelength, near-continuum limit, here we examine the opposite limit, namely the vicinity of the so-called anti-continuum limit. We provide a systematic discussion of states…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Y. Shen , P. G. Kevrekidis , G. Srinivasan , A. B. Aceves

We introduce a generalized version of the Ablowitz-Ladik model with a power-law nonlinearity, as a discretization of the continuum nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the same type of the nonlinearity. The model opens a way to study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-17 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , L. Guo

In this paper, we analyze the formation and dynamical properties of discrete light bullets (dLBs) in an array of passively mode-locked lasers coupled via evanescent fields in a ring geometry. Using a generic model based upon a system of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-24 Thomas G. Seidel , Auro M. Perego , Julien Javaloyes , Svetlana V. Gurevich

The aim of this paper is to provide a construction of stationary discrete solitons in an extended one-dimensional Discrete NLS model with non-nearest neighbour interactions. These models, models of the type with long-range interactions were…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Vassilis M. Rothos , Stavros Anastassiou , Katerina G. Hadjifotinou

We report on existence and properties of discrete gap solitons in zigzag arrays of alternating waveguides with positive and negative refractive indices. Zigzag quasi-one-dimensional configuration of waveguide array introduces strong…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander A. Dovgiy , Ilya S. Besedin

We present stable bright solitons built of coupled unstaggered and staggered components in a symmetric system of two discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equations with the attractive self-phase-modulation (SPM) nonlinearity, coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Boris A. Malomed , D. J. Kaup , Robert A. Van Gorder

This study investigates the existence and stability of localized states in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) equation with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities, describing the so-called quantum droplets and bubbles. Those states…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-18 R. Kusdiantara , H. Susanto , T. F. Adriano , N. Karjanto

We address the issue of mobility of localized modes in two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices with saturable nonlinearity. This describes e.g. discrete spatial solitons in a tight-binding approximation of two-dimensional optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Rodrigo A. Vicencio , Magnus Johansson