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We study suppression of the collapse and stabilization of matter-wave solitons by means of time-periodic modulation of the effective nonlinearity, using the nonpolynomial Schroedinger equation (NPSE) for BEC trapped in a tight cigar-shaped…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Giovanni Filatrella , Boris A. Malomed , Luca Salasnich

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

We investigate the properties of localized waves in systems governed by nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger type equations. We prove rigorously by bounding the Hamiltonian that nonlocality of the nonlinearity prevents collapse in, e.g.,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Ole Bang , Wieslaw Krolikowski , John Wyller , Jens Juul Rasmussen

Understanding, predicting, and controlling physical processes often relies on the analysis of the dynamics of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this context, the present study offers an in-depth investigation into the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 J. M. Escorcia

This paper is a detailed and self-contained study of the stability properties of periodic traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation $u_{tt}-u_{xx}+V'(u)=0$, where $u$ is a scalar-valued function of $x$ and $t$, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Robert Marangell , Peter D. Miller , Ramon G. Plaza

The stability properties and perturbation-induced dynamics of the full set of stationary states of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation are investigated numerically in two physical contexts: periodic solutions on a ring and confinement by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Lincoln D. Carr , J. Nathan Kutz , William P. Reinhardt

We analyze the existence and stability of nonlinear localized waves described by the Kronig-Penney model with a nonlinear impurity. We study the properties of such waves in a homogeneous medium, and then analyze new effects introduced by…

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

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

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , V. V. Konotop

We develop stability analysis for matter-wave solitons in a two-dimensional (2D) Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in an optical lattice (OL), to which periodic time modulation is applied, in different forms. The stability is studied by dint…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-08 Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

We examine the spectral properties of single and multiple matter-wave dark solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates confined in parabolic traps, where the scattering length is periodically modulated. In addition to the large-density limit…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-24 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis

Modulation instability in a nonlinear optical waveguide array with alternating positive and negative refractive indices is investigated analytically. Particular solutions of a system of coupled nonlinear equations are found. These solutions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-30 A. A. Dovgiy , A. I. Maimistov

Motivated by recent work on instabilities in expanding domains in reaction-diffusion settings, we propose an analog of such mechanisms in energy-conserving wave equations. In particular, we consider a nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 K. J. H. Law , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

We study the solutions of linear Schroedinger equations in which the potential energy is a periodic function of time and is sufficiently localized in space. We consider the potential to be close to one that is time periodic and yet…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-31 P. D. Miller , A. Soffer , M. I. Weinstein

This work deals with soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with cubic and quintic nonlinearities. We extend the procedure put forward in a recent Letter and we solve the equation in the presence of linear background, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 A. T. Avelar , D. Bazeia , W. B. Cardoso

A one-dimensional model of a dispersive medium with intrinsic loss, compensated by a parametric drive, is proposed. It is a combination of the well-known parametrically driven nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) and complex cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris Malomed

We report results for solitons in models of waveguides with focusing or defocusing saturable nonlinearity and a parity-time(PT )-symmetric complex-valued external potential of the Scarf-II type. The model applies to the nonlinear wave…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-11 Pengfei Li , Dumitru Mihalache , Boris A. Malomed

Properties of localized states on array of BEC confined to a potential, representing superposition of linear and nonlinear optical lattices are investigated. For a shallow lattice case the coupled mode system has been derived. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Fatkhulla Abdullaev , Abdulaziz Abdumalikov , Ravil Galimzyanov

The present contribution contains a quite extensive theory for the stability analysis of plane periodic waves of general Schr{\"o}dinger equations. On one hand, we put the one-dimensional theory, or in other words the stability theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Corentin Audiard , L Rodrigues

We consider nonlinear Schrodinger equations with either local or nonlocal nonlinearities. In addition, we include periodic potentials as used, for example, in matter wave experiments in optical lattices. By considering the corresponding…

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