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The existence of breather type solutions, i.e., periodic in time, exponentially localized in space solutions, is a very unusual feature for continuum, nonlinear wave type equations. Following an earlier work [Comm. Math. Phys. {\bf 302},…

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We present an analytical model of integrable turbulence in the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (fNLS) equation, generated by a one-parameter family of finite-band elliptic potentials in the semiclassical limit. We show that the spectrum of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-08-02 Gino Biondini , Gennady A. El , Xu-Dan Luo , Jeffrey Oregero , Alexander Tovbis

We consider polarons in models of coupled electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom, in the presence of a soft nonlinear inter-particle potential (Morse potential). In particular, we focus on a a bound state of a polaron with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-25 J. Cuevas , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

We derive a Hamiltonian version of the ${\cal PT}$-symmetric discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation that describes synchronized dynamics of coupled pendula driven by a periodic movement of their common strings. In the limit of weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Alexander Chernyavsky , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We derive the two-breather solution of the class I infinitely extended nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE). We present a general form of this multi-parameter solution that includes infinitely many free parameters of the equation and free…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-09-22 Matthew Crabb , Nail Akhmediev

Breathers have been experimentally and theoretically found in many physical systems -- in particular, in integrable nonlinear-wave models. A relevant problem is to study the \textit{breather gas}, which is the limit, for $N\rightarrow…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-10-17 Weifang Weng , Guoqiang Zhang , Boris A. Malomed , Zhenya Yan

This work focuses on the study of time-periodic solutions, including breathers, in a nonlinear lattice consisting of elements whose contacts alternate between strain-hardening and strain-softening. The existence, stability, and bifurcation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-05-24 Marisa M. Lee , Efstathios G. Charalampidis , Siyuan Xing , Christopher Chong , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

The quantum sine-Gordon model is the simplest massive interacting integrable quantum field theory whose two-particle scattering matrix is generally non-diagonal. As such, it is a model that has been extensively studied, especially in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , David X. Horvath

We show that the parity-time (PT) symmetric coupled optical waveguides with gain and loss support localised oscillatory structures similar to the breathers of the classical $\phi^4$ model. The power carried by the PT-breather oscillates…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-11-12 I. V. Barashenkov , Sergey V. Suchkov , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Sergey V. Dmitriev , Yuri S. Kivshar

We consider the \emph{focusing} nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation posed on the one dimensional line, with nonzero background condition at spatial infinity, given by a homogeneous plane wave. For this problem of physical interest, we study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Claudio Muñoz

Nonlinear classical Hamiltonian lattices exhibit generic solutions in the form of discrete breathers. These solutions are time-periodic and (typically exponentially) localized in space. The lattices exhibit discrete translational symmetry.…

patt-sol · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Flach , C. R. Willis

We present a family of discrete breathers, which exists in a nonlinear polarizability model of ferroelectric materials. The core-shell model is set up in its non-dimensionalized Hamiltonian form and its linear spectrum is examined.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Hoogeboom , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena , A. R. Bishop

Breathers may be mobile close to an instability threshold where the frequency of a pinning mode vanishes. The translation mode is a marginal mode that is a solution of the linearized (Hill) equation of the breather which grows linearly in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Aubry , T. Cretegny

In an extensive numerical investigation of nonintegrable translational motion of discrete breathers in nonlinear Schrodinger lattices, we have used a regularized Newton algorithm to continue these solutions from the limit of the integrable…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gomez-Gardenes , L. M. Floria , M. Peyrard , A. R. Bishop

Soliton motion in some external potentials is studied using the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Solitons are scattered by a potential wall. Solitons propagate almost freely or are trapped in a periodic potential. The critical kinetic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Sakaguchi , M. Tamura

Solitons confined in a channel are studied in the two-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation. When a channel branches into two channels, a soliton is split into two solitons, if the initial kinetic energy exceeds a critical value. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-09-20 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Yusuke Kageyama

Mutual interaction of localized nonlinear waves, e.g. solitons and modulation instability patterns, is a fascinating and intensively-studied topic of nonlinear science. In this research report, we report on the observation of a novel type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-16 Gang Xu , Andrey Gelash , Amin Chabchoub , Vladimir Zakharov , Bertrand Kibler

The dynamics of two-component solitons is studied, analytically and numerically, in the framework of a system of coupled extended nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which incorporate the cross-phase modulation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-19 E. M. Gromov , B. A. Malomed , V. V. Tyutin

We study soliton dynamics in a system of two linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which describe the dynamics of a two-component Bose gas, coupled by an electromagnetic field, and confined in a strong optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-20 A. Trombettoni , H. E. Nistazakis , Z. Rapti , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this paper we announce the result of asymptotic dynamics of solitons of nonlinear Schrodinger equations with external potentials. To each local minima of the potential there is a soliton centered around it. Under some conditions on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhou Gang , I. M. Sigal