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It is known that there are nonlinear wave equations with localized solitary wave solutions. Some of these solitary waves are stable (with respect to a small perturbation of initial data) and have nonzero spin (nonzero intrinsic angular…
In the present work, we consider the existence, stability, and dynamics of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation. We start by introducing the Soler model of self-interacting spinors, and discuss its localized waveforms in one, two,…
We consider perturbations of the one-dimensional cubic Schr\"odinger equation, under the form $i \, \partial_t \psi + \partial_x^2 \psi + |\psi|^2 \psi - g( |\psi|^2 ) \psi = 0$. Under hypotheses on the function g that can be easily…
In this paper we study the solitary waves for the coupled Schr\"odinger - Maxwell equations in three-dimensional space. We prove the existence of a sequence of radial solitary waves for these equations with a fixed $L^2$ norm. We study the…
This work studies the rotation-generalized Benjamin-Ono equation which is derived from the theory of weakly nonlinear long surface and internal waves in deep water under the presence of rotation. It is shown that the solitary-wave solutions…
Using Lie group theory we construct explicit solitary wave solutions of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger systems with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearities. We present the general theory, use it to construct different families of explicit…
We consider a system of coupled nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations in one space dimension. First, we prove the existence of multi-speed solitary waves, i.e solutions to the system with each component behaving at large times as a solitary…
We consider the stability theory of solitary wave solutions for the generalized derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $$ i\partial_{t}u+\partial_{x}^{2}u+i|u|^{2\sigma}\partial_x u=0, $$ where $1<\sigma<2$. The equation has a…
For the Schr\"odinger equation with a cubic-quintic, focusing-defocusing nonlinearity in one space dimension, we prove the asymptotic stability of solitary waves for a large range of admissible frequencies. For this model, the linearized…
Motivated by recent progress in trapping Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in toroidal potentials, we examine solitary-wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation subject to periodic boundary conditions. When the circumference of the…
This paper proves existence and stability results of solitary-wave solutions to coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with power-type nonlinearities arising in several models of modern physics. The existence of solitary waves is…
The long-time asymptotics is analyzed for finite energy solutions of the 1D discrete Schr\"odinger equation coupled to a nonlinear oscillator. The coupled system is invariant with respect to the phase rotation group. For initial states…
We consider the initial-value problem for the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the presence of an attractive delta potential. We show that for sufficiently small initial data, the corresponding global solution decomposes…
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…
We consider the focusing $L^2$-supercritical Schr\"odinger equation in the exterior of a smooth, compact, strictly convex obstacle. We construct a solution behaving asymptotically as a solitary waves on $R^3$, as large time. When the…
We consider the nonlinear Dirac equations (NLDE's) in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self interaction $\frac{g^2}{k+1} ({\bar \Psi} \Psi)^{k+1}$, as well as a vector-vector self interaction $\frac{g^2}{k+1} ({\bar \Psi} \gamma_\mu \Psi…
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 $g$…
We discuss the behavior of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLSE) as they interact with complex potentials, using a four parameter variational approximation based on a dissipation functional formulation of…
We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an attractive delta potential and mass-supercritical nonlinearity. This equation admits a one-parameter family of solitary wave solutions in both the focusing and…
Periodic waves are standing wave solutions of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations whose profile is periodic in space dimension one. We consider general nonlinearities and provide variational characterizations for the periodic wave profiles.…