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The dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a deep optical lattice is governed by a discrete nonlinear equation (DNL). Its degree of nonlinearity and the intersite hopping rates are retrieved from a nonlinear tight-binding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Augusto Smerzi , Andrea Trombettoni

We study linear stability of planar travelling waves for a scalar reaction-diffusion equation with non-linear anisotropic diffusion. The mathematical model is derived from the full thermo-hydrodynamical model describing the process of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Léonard Monsaingeon

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in a linearly-varying index of refraction is a fundamental problem in wave physics, being relevant in fusion science for describing certain wave-based heating and diagnostic schemes. Here, an exact…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 N. A. Lopez

The features of propagation of intense waves are of great interest for theory and experiment in electrodynamics and acoustics. The behavior of nonlinear waves in a bounded volume is of especial importance and, at the same time, is an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 E. Yu. Petrov , A. V. Kudrin

We investigate solitons and nonlinear Bloch waves in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical lattices. By introducing specially designed localized profiles of the spatial modulation of the attractive nonlinearity, we construct an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Jie-Fang Zhang , Yi-Shen Li , Jianping Meng , Lei Wu , Boris A. Malomed

Propagation of unsteady waves under the effect of a step point load on a square lattice of spring-connected masses is investigated. The problem is solved by two methods. Asymptotic solutions at large time intervals, which describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Nadezhda Aleksandrova

Steady-state and transient antiplane dynamic processes in a structured solids consisting of uniform periodic square-cell lattices connected by a lattice layer of different bond stiffnesses and point masses are analyzed. A semi-infinite…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 Grigory Osharovich , Mark Ayzenberg-Stepanenko

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical Fisher-KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since, in the case of linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vazquez

The aim of this article is to study the attenuation of transient low-frequency waves in 2D lattices in both plane and antiplane problems. The main idea of this article is that analytical solutions to problems of mechanics of discrete…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Nadezhda I. Aleksandrova

The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Markus Scholle

With the increasing use of ultrashort laser pulses and nanoscale-materials, one is regularly confronted to situations in which the properties of the media supporting propagation are not varying slowly with time (or space). Hence, the usual…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Guillaume Petite , Alexander Shvartsburg

The aim of the present review is to introduce the reader to some of the physical notions and of the mathematical methods that are relevant to the study of nonlinear waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs). Upon introducing the general…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We investigate two kind of polarization of localized optical waves in nonlinear Kerr type media, linear and combination of linear and circular. In the first case of linear polarized components we obtained the vector version of 3D+1…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lubomir M. Kovachev , David R. Andersen

We investigate exact plane-fronted gravitational wave (pp-wave) solutions within the framework of shift-symmetric quadratic-order higher-order scalar--tensor (HOST) theories. These solutions represent fully nonlinear radiative spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Masato Minamitsuji

The relativistic wave equations of a charged particle propagating in a classical monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave, in a medium of index of refraction n_m < 1, have been studied. In the Dirac case the found exact solutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-10 Sandor Varro

We present a brief discussion on the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation for modeling the propagation of the deep-water wavetrains and a discussion on its doubly-localized breather solutions that can be connected to the sudden formation of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-01-08 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Amin Chabchoub , Norbert Hoffmann

We study the Boussinesq approximation for the incompressible Euler equations using Lagrangian description. The conditions for the Lagrangian fluid map are derived in this setting, and a general method is presented to find exact fluid flows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Tomi Saleva , Jukka Tuomela

Fully localised solitary waves are travelling-wave solutions of the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem which decay to zero in every horizontal spatial direction. Their existence has been predicted on the basis of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Boris Buffoni , Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

Using Lie symmetry methods for differential equations we have investigated the symmetries of a Lagrangian for a plane symmetric static spacetime. Perturbing this Lagrangian we explore its approximate symmetries. It has a non-trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-16 Ibrar Hussain , Asghar Qadir

Exact solutions describing trapped modes in a plane quantum waveguide with a small rigid obstacle are constructed in the form of convergent series in powers of the small parameter characterizing the smallness of the obstacle. The terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. De la Paz Méndez