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In this paper we look for standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations $$ i\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t}+\Delta \psi - g(|y|) \psi -W^{\prime}(| \psi |)\frac{\psi}{| \psi |}=0 $$ with cylindrically symmetric potentials $g$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 Jacopo Bellazzini , Claudio Bonanno

We study a class of discrete focusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations (DNLS) with general nonlocal interactions. We prove the existence of onsite and offsite discrete solitary waves, which bifurcate from the trivial solution at the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-08 Michael Jenkinson , Michael I. Weinstein

In the present work we study the nucleation of Dispersive shock waves (DSW) in the {defocusing}, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (DNLS), a model of wide relevance to nonlinear optics and atomic condensates. Here, we study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-11 Shrohan Mohapatra , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli

In this work, we study solitary waves in a (2+1)-dimensional variant of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, the so-called Camassa-Holm NLS (CH-NLS) equation. We use asymptotic multiscale expansion methods to reduce this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-05 C. B. Ward , I. K. Mylonas , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

A nonlocal derivative NLS (nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger) equation describes modulations of waves in a stratified fluid and a continuous limit of the Calogero--Moser--Sutherland system of particles. For the defocusing version of this equation,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-01-28 Jinbing Chen , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

In this paper we study the behavior of solutions of a nonlinear Schroedinger equation in presence of an external potential, which is allowed to be singular at one point. We show that the solution behaves like a solitary wave for long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Claudio Bonanno

We discuss the response of both moving and trapped solitary wave solutions of a nonlinear two-component nonlinear Schr\"odinger system in 1+1 dimensions to an anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ external periodic complex potential. The dynamical behavior…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-03 Efstathios G. Charalampidis , Fred Cooper , John F. Dawson , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

We consider a nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with any positive power nonlinearity on a star graph $\Gamma$ ($N$ half-lines glued at the common vertex) with a $\delta$ interaction at the vertex. The strength of the interaction is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Adilbek Kairzhan

We consider a system of coupled nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations in one space dimension. First, we prove the existence of multi-speed solitary waves, i.e solutions to the system with each component behaving at large times as a solitary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Fanny Delebecque , Stefan Le Coz , Rada-Maria Weishäupl

For nonlinear dispersive systems, the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation can usually be derived as a formal approximation equation describing slow spatial and temporal modulations of the envelope of a spatially and temporally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Max Heß

The longstanding problem of moving discrete solitary waves in nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattices is revisited. The context is photorefractive crystal lattices with saturable nonlinearity whose grand-canonical energy barrier vanishes for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-25 T. R. O. Melvin , A. R. Champneys , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. Cuevas

The existence of nonzero periodic travelling wave solutions for a general discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) on finite one-dimensional lattices is proved. The DNLS features a general nonlinear term and variable range of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Dirk Hennig

Travelling solitary waves in the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (DNLSE) with saturable onsite nonlinearity are studied. A variational approximation (VA) for the solitary waves is derived in an analytical form.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Syafwan , H. Susanto , S. M. Cox , B. A. Malomed

We use a fractional transformation to connect the traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE), phase-locked with a source, to the elliptic functions satisfying, $f^{\prime\prime}\pm af\pm \lambda f^{3}=0$. The…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Soloman Raju , C. Nagaraja Kumar , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We consider the nonlinear Dirac equations (NLDE's) in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self interaction $\frac{g^2}{\kappa+1} ({\bPsi} \Psi)^{\kappa+1}$ in the presence of various external electromagnetic fields. Starting from the exact…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-20 Franz G. Mertens , Niurka R. Quintero , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

The fractional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (fDNLS) is studied on a periodic lattice from the analytic and dynamic perspective by varying the mesh size $h>0$ and the nonlocal L\'evy index $\alpha \in (0,2]$. We show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Brian Choi

We prove the existence of a new type of solutions to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger system. These solutions, which we call "multi-speeds solitary waves", are behaving at large time as a couple of scalar solitary waves traveling at different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Isabella Ianni , Stefan Le Coz

This is the second part of a two-paper series studying the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with quasi-periodic initial data. In this paper, we focus on the quasi-periodic Cauchy problem for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 David Damanik , Yong Li , Fei Xu

In the present work, we consider the existence and spectral stability of multi-pulse solitary wave solutions to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with both fourth and second order dispersion terms. We first give a criterion for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-04-01 Ross Parker , Alejandro Aceves

Using Lie group theory we construct explicit solitary wave solutions of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger systems with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearities. We present the general theory, use it to construct different families of explicit…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 Juan Belmonte-Beitia , Valeriy Brazhnyi , Victor M. Perez-Garcia