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In this paper, the existence and orbital stability of the periodic standing waves solutions for the nonlinear fractional Schrodinger (fNLS) equation with cubic nonlinearity is studied. The existence is determined by using a minimizing…

The modulational stability of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation is examined in the case with a quadratic external potential. This study is motivated by recent experimental studies in the context of matter waves in Bose-Einstein…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Theocharis , Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , V. V. Konotop

It is shown that the periodic DNLS, with cubic nonlinearity, possesses gap solutions, i. e. standing waves, with the frequency in a spectral gap, that are exponentially localized in spatial variable. The proof is based on the linking…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Pankov

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation set on a two dimensional box of size $L$ with periodic boundary conditions. By taking the large box limit $L \to \infty$ in the weakly nonlinear regime (characterized by smallness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Erwan Faou , Pierre Germain , Zaher Hani

We consider a class of nonlinear Schrodinger / Gross-Pitaevskii (NLS/GP) equations with periodic potentials, having an even symmetry. We construct "solitons", centered about any point of symmetry of the potential. For focusing (attractive)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-02-18 Boaz Ilan , Michael I. Weinstein

We measure spectra, spatial correlation functions and probability density functions (PDFs) for waves amplitudes for generalized one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation of focusing type with saturated nonlinearity. All…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-18 D. S. Agafontsev

In this work, we study the existence and orbital (in)stability of certain standing-wave solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a looping-edge graph $\mathcal{G}$, consisting of a circle and a finite number…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jaime Angulo Pava , Alexander Munoz

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

We study the evolution of nonlinear surface gravity water-wave packets developing from modulational instability over an uneven bottom. A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with coefficients varying in space along propagation is used as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-04 Andrea Armaroli , Alexis Gomel , Amin Chabchoub , Maura Brunetti , Jérôme Kasparian

We consider the Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a logarithmic nonlinearty and non-trivial boundary conditions at infinity. We prove that the Cauchy problem is globally well posed in the energy space, which turns out to correspond to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Rémi Carles , Guillaume Ferriere

We consider the semiclassical limit of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with wavepacket initial data. We recover the Wigner measure of the problem, a macroscopic phase-space density which controls the propagation of the physical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Agissilaos Athanassoulis

A new approximation for evolution described by Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLS) with periodic potential is presented. It relies on restricting dynamics to one band of the bandgap spectrum, and taking into account only one, dominating…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Matuszewski

It has been suggested that the nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation might approximate the coupling of quantum mechanics with gravitation, particularly in the context of the M{\o}ller-Rosenfeld semiclassical theory. Numerical results for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 J. R. van Meter

It is universally accepted that the cubic, nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) models the dynamics of narrow-bandwidth wave packets consisting of short dispersive waves, while the Kortewegde Vries equation (KdV) models the propagation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-23 Chuangye Liu , Nghiem V. Nguyen

The coupled cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (CNLS) equations are used to study modulational instabilities of a pair of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water. It has been shown that the full dynamics of these interacting…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-15 Harihar Khanal , Stefan C. Mancas , Shahrdad Sajjadi

We measure evolution of spectra, spatial correlation functions and probability density functions (PDFs) of waves appearance for a set of one-dimensional NLS-like equations of focusing type, namely for the classical integrable Nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Dmitry Agafontsev , Vladimir Zakharov

We consider a non-conservative nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NCNLS) with time-dependent coefficients, inspired by a water waves problem. This problem does not have mass or energy conservation, but instead mass and energy change in time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Agissilaos Athanassoulis , Theodoros Katsaounis , Irene Kyza

We develop a detailed rigorous analysis of edge bifurcations of standing waves in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on a tadpole graph (a ring attached to a semi-infinite line subject to the Kirchhoff boundary conditions at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Diego Noja , Dmitry Pelinovsky , Gaukhar Shaikhova

The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) in one dimension is considered in the presence of an intensity-dependent dispersion term. We study bright solitary waves with smooth profiles which extend from the limit where the dependence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-22 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , R. M. Ross

Exact solutions for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with inhomogeneous complex linear and nonlinear potentials are found. We have found localized and periodic solutions for a wide class of localized and periodic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Kh. Abdullaev , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno , A. V. Yulin