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This paper is concerned with breather solutions of a radially symmetric curl-curl wave equation with double power nonlinearity. By considering the solutions with a special form, we obtain a family of ordinary differential equations (ODEs)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Xin Meng , Shuguan Ji

In this article, we study the standing-wave solutions to a class of systems of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. Our target is all the standard forms of the NLS systems, with two unknowns, that have a common linear part and cubic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Satoshi Masaki

Consider the hyperbolic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (HNLS) over $\mathbb{R}^d$ $$ iu_t + u_{xx} - \Delta_{\textbf{y}} u + \lambda |u|^\sigma u=0. $$ We deduce the conservation laws associated with (HNLS) and observe the lack of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Simão Correia , Mário Figueira

We show the existence and stability of ground state solutions (g.s.s.) for $L^2$-critical magnetic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (mNLS) for a class of unbounded electromagnetic potentials. We then give non-existence result by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Oleg Asipchuk , Christopher Leonard , Shijun Zheng

We highlight an interesting mapping between the moving breather solutions of the generalized Nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations and the static solutions of neutral scalar field theories. Using this connection, we then obtain several new…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-01-13 Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena , Kody J. H. Law

We study the long-time behavior of small and large solutions to a broad class of nonlinear Dirac-type equations. Our results are classified in 1D massless and massive cases, 3D general and $n$ dimensional in generality. In the 1D massless…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Sebastian Herr , Christopher Maulén , Claudio Muñoz

Nonlinear lattice models can support "discrete breather" excitations that stay localized in space for all time. By contrast, the localized Wannier states of linear lattice models are dynamically unstable. Nevertheless, symmetric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Frank Schindler , Vir B. Bulchandani , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

We prove non-existence of solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on the circle if initial data belong to $H^s(\mathbb{T}) \setminus L^2(\mathbb{T})$ for some $s \in (-\frac18, 0)$. The proof is based on establishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Zihua Guo , Tadahiro Oh

The stability and dynamical properties of the so-called resonant nonlinear Schr\"odinger (RNLS) equation, are considered. The RNLS is a variant of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with the addition of a perturbation used to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-05 F. Williams , F. Tsitoura , T. P. Horikis , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this paper we look for standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations $$ i\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t}+\Delta \psi - g(|y|) \psi -W^{\prime}(| \psi |)\frac{\psi}{| \psi |}=0 $$ with cylindrically symmetric potentials $g$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 Jacopo Bellazzini , Claudio Bonanno

Exact solutions to a nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattice with a saturable nonlinearity are reported. For finite lattices we find two different standing-wave-like solutions, and for an infinite lattice we find a localized soliton-like…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Avinash Khare , K. O. Rasmussen , M. R. Samuelsen , A. Saxena

The Peregrine breather is widely discussed as a model for rogue waves in deep water. We present here a detailed numerical study of perturbations of the Peregrine breather as a solution to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-27 C. Klein , M. Haragus

The rogue wave solutions (rational multi-breathers) of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) are tested in numerical simulations of weakly nonlinear and fully nonlinear hydrodynamic equations. Only the lowest order solutions from 1 to 5…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-30 A. Slunyaev , E. Pelinovsky , A. Sergeeva , A. Chabchoub , N. Hoffmann , M. Onorato , N. Akhmediev

We give a new method to prove the existence, non-existence, multiplicity, orbital stability/instability of standing waves for NLS with partial confinement without the subcritical hypothesis, even in the reduction equation. Using this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Linjie Song , Hichem Hajaiej

We consider nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with either power-type or Hartree nonlinearity in the presence of an external potential. We show that for long-range nonlinearities, solutions cannot exhibit scattering to solitary waves or more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-11 Jason Murphy , Kenji Nakanishi

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

We consider the discrete p-Schr\"odinger (DpS) equation, which approximates small amplitude oscillations in chains of oscillators with fully-nonlinear nearest-neighbors interactions of order alpha = p-1 >1. Using a mapping approach, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-18 Guillaume James , Yuli Starosvetsky

We investigate the semilinear wave equation with potential on weighted graphs. We establish sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of global-in-time solutions. Both nonnegative and sign-changing solutions are considered. In particular,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Dario Daniele Monticelli , Fabio Punzo , Jacopo Somaglia

Following the original approach introduced by T. Cazenave and P.L. Lions in \cite{CaLi} we prove the existence and the orbital stability of standing waves for the following class of NLS: \label{intr1} i\partial_t u+ \Delta u - V(x) u + Q(x)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-16 J. Bellazzini , N. Visciglia

The infinite families of Peregrine, Akhmediev and Kuznetsov-Ma breather solutions of the focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) equation are obtained via a matrix version of the Darboux transformation, with a spectral matrix of the form of a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-04-05 Oleksandr Chvartatskyi , Folkert Müller-Hoissen