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The longstanding problem of moving discrete solitary waves in nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattices is revisited. The context is photorefractive crystal lattices with saturable nonlinearity whose grand-canonical energy barrier vanishes for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-25 T. R. O. Melvin , A. R. Champneys , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. Cuevas

We consider the focusing $L^2$-subcritical Schr\"odinger equation in the exterior of a smooth, compact, strictly convex obstacle $\Theta \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. We construct a solution that, for large times, behaves asymptotically as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Oussama Landoulsi

A concept of semiclassically concentrated solutions is formulated for the multidimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with an external field. These solutions are considered as multidimensional solitary waves. The center of mass…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Alexander Shapovalov , A. Yu. Trifonov

We consider the following generalized derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation \begin{equation*} i\partial_tu+\partial^2_xu+i|u|^{2\sigma}\partial_xu=0,\ (t,x)\in\mathbb R\times\mathbb R \end{equation*} when $\sigma\in(0,1)$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Qing Guo

Solitary waves of nonlinear Dirac, Maxwell-Dirac and Klein-Gordon-Dirac equations are considered. We prove that the energy-momentum relation for solitary waves coincides with the Einstein energy-momentum relation for point particles.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 T. V. Dudnikova

The solitary wave solution and periodic solutions expressed in terms of elliptic Jacobi's functions are obtained for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation governing the propagation of pulses in optical fibers including the effects of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-22 Vladimir I. Kruglov

In the present work, we consider the existence and spectral stability of multi-pulse solitary wave solutions to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with both fourth and second order dispersion terms. We first give a criterion for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-04-01 Ross Parker , Alejandro Aceves

A nonlinear generalisation of Schrodinger's equation had previously been obtained using information-theoretic arguments. The nonlinearities in that equation were of a nonpolynomial form, equivalent to the occurence of higher-derivative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Parwani , H. S. Tan

The soliton dynamics for a general class of nonlinear focusing Schr\"odinger problems in presence of non-constant external (local and nonlocal) potentials is studied by taking as initial datum the ground state solution of an associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Raffaella Servadei , Marco Squassina

We consider a semilinear Schr\"odinger equation, driven by the power degenerate second order differential operator $\nabla\cdot (|x|^{2a} \nabla), a\in (0,1)$. We construct the solitary waves, in the sharp range of parameters, as minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Vishnu Iyer , Atanas G. Stefanov

Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations with focusing power nonlinearities have solitary wave solutions. The spectra of the linearized operators around these solitary waves are intimately connected to stability properties of the solitary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shu-Ming Chang , Stephen Gustafson , Kenji Nakanishi , Tai-Peng Tsai

Existence of solution and stability results on a class of Non Linear Schroedinger type equations with a bounded nonlinearity are obtained, for a bounded domain and with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The kind of stability under discussion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Marco Ghimenti , Dimitrios Kandilakis , Manolis Magiropoulos

In this paper we study existence and orbital stability for solitary waves of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation. The energy of these solutions travels as a localized packet, hence they are a particular type of solitons. In particular we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-10 J. Bellazzini , V. Benci , C. Bonanno , A. M. Micheletti

We study solitary wave solutions of the fifth-order Korteweg - de Vries equation which contains, besides the traditional quadratic nonlinearity and third-order dispersion, additional terms including cubic nonlinearity and fifth order linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 K. R. Khusnutdinova , Y. A. Stepanyants , M. R. Tranter

We obtain the most general matrix criterion for stability and instability of multi-component solitary waves considering a system of $N$ incoherently coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Soliton stability is studied as a constrained…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Yuri S. Kivshar

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

A large class of multidimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations admit localized nonradial standing wave solutions that carry nonzero intrinsic angular momentum. Here we provide evidence that certain of these spinning excitations are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Pego , Henry A. Warchall

We study traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogenous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Armengol Gasull , Anna Geyer

The present paper is concerned with the existence of solitary wave solutions of Rosenau-type equations. By using two standard theories, Normal Form Theory and Concentration-Compactness Theory, some results of existence of solitary waves of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 A. Durán , G. M. Muslu

We introduce a generalized version of the Ablowitz-Ladik model with a power-law nonlinearity, as a discretization of the continuum nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the same type of the nonlinearity. The model opens a way to study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-17 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , L. Guo