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Coupled backward and forward wave amplitudes of an electromagnetic field propagating in a periodic and nonlinear medium at Bragg resonance are governed by the nonlinear coupled mode equations (NLCME). This system of PDEs, similar in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Roy H. Goodman , Michael I. Weinstein

We prove the existence of exponentially localised and time-periodic solutions in general nonlinear Hamiltonian lattice systems. Like normal modes, these localised solutions are characterised by collective oscillations at the lattice sites…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-07-14 Dirk Hennig

We consider a Hamiltonian chain of weakly coupled anharmonic oscillators. It is well known that if the coupling is weak enough then the system admits families of periodic solutions exponentially localized in space (breathers). In this paper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Dario Bambusi

Dynamics of array of coupled self-excited oscillators is considered. Model of Franklin bell is adopted as a mechanism for the self-excitation. The model allows derivation of exact analytic solutions for discrete breathers (DBs), and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 I. B. Shiroky , O. V. Gendelman

We realize fractal-like photonic lattices using cw-laser-writing technique, thereby observe distinct compact localized states (CLSs) associated with different flatbands in the same lattice setting. Such triangle-shaped lattices, akin to the…

We study the properties of modulational instability and discrete breathers arising in a quasi-one-dimensional discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equation with Lee-Huang-Yang corrections. Conditions for modulation instability and instability regions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-01 Sherzod R. Otajonov , Bakhram A. Umarov , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev

The manipulation of locked intrinsic localized modes/discrete breathers is studied experimentally in nonlinear electric transmission line arrays. Introducing a static lattice impurity in the form of a capacitor, resistor or inductor has…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Sato , S. Yasui , M. Kimura , T. Hikihara , A. J. Sievers

We construct families of discrete solitons (DSs) in an array of self-defocusing waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$ (parity-time)-symmetric dimer, which is represented by a pair of waveguides carrying mutually balanced gain and loss.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-11 Zhiqiang Chen , Jiasheng Huang , Jinglei Chai , Xiangyu Zhang , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

The modulational instability and discrete matter wave solitons in dipolar BEC, loaded into a deep optical lattice, are investigated analytically and numerically. The process of modulational instability of nonlinear plane matter waves in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Rojas-Rojas , R. A. Vicencio , M. I. Molina , F. Kh. Abdullaev

We study localized traveling waves and chaotic states in strongly nonlinear one-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices. We show that the solitary waves are super-exponentially localized, and present an accurate numerical method allowing to find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Karsten Ahnert , Arkady Pikovsky

Two-dimensional arrays of nonlinear electric oscillators are considered theoretically, where nearest neighbors are coupled by relatively small, constant, but non-equal capacitors. The dynamics is approximately reduced to a weakly…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-09 Victor P. Ruban

Metamaterials, i.e., artificially structured ("synthetic") media comprising weakly coupled discrete elements, exhibit extraordinary properties and they hold a great promise for novel applications including super-resolution imaging,…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-22 N. Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

In the present work, we consider the existence and spectral stability of multi-pulse solutions in Hamiltonian lattice systems. We provide a general framework for the study of such wave patterns based on a discrete analogue of Lin's method,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Ross Parker , P. G. Kevrekidis , Björn Sandstede

We address the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with intensity-dependent dispersion which was recently proposed in the context of nonlinear optical systems. Contrary to the previous findings, we prove that no solitary wave solutions exist if…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-23 R. M. Ross , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky

The discrete complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is a fundamental model for the dynamics of nonlinear lattices incorporating competitive dissipation and energy gain effects. Such mechanisms are of particular importance for the study of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-05-03 Dirk Hennig , Nikos I. Karachalios , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver

We analyze the existence and stability of two kinds of self-trapped spatially localized gap modes, gap solitons and truncated nonlinear Bloch waves, in one-and two-dimensional optical or matter-wave media with self-focusing nonlinearity,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-25 Jincheng Shi , Jianhua Zeng

We introduce a discrete lossy system, into which a double hot spot (HS) is inserted, i.e., two mutually symmetric sites carrying linear gain and cubic nonlinearity. The system can be implemented as an array of optical or plasmonic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-16 K. W. Chow , Edwin Ding , Boris A. Malomed , A. Y. S. Tang

The Discrete NonLinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) equation displays a parameter region characterized by the presence of localized excitations (breathers). While their formation is well understood and it is expected that the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-17 Stefano Iubini , Antonio Politi , Paolo Politi

We consider localized solutions of variants of the semilinear curl-curl wave equation $s(x) \partial_t^2 U +\nabla\times\nabla\times U + q(x) U \pm V(x) |U|^{p-1} U = 0$ for $(x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^3\times\mathbb{R}$ and arbitrary $p>1$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Michael Plum , Wolfgang Reichel

We consider a Dirac operator with short range potential and with eigenvalues. We add a nonlinear term and we show that the small standing waves of the corresponding nonlinear Dirac equation (NLD) are attractors for small solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Scipio Cuccagna , Mirko Tarulli