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The focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation possesses special non-dispersive solitary type solutions, solitons. Under certain spectral assumptions we show existence and asymptotic stability of solutions with the asymptoic profile (as time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Rodnianski , W. Schlag , A. Soffer

Statistical mechanics of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is studied by means of analytical and numerical techniques. The lower bound of the Hamiltonian permits the construction of standard Gibbsian equilibrium measures for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Ø. Rasmussen , T. Cretegny , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Grønbech-Jensen

We study light localization at a phase-slip defect created by two semi-infinite mismatched identical arrays of coupled optical waveguides. We demonstrate that the nonlinear defect modes possess the specific properties of both nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Mario I. Molina , Yuri S. Kivshar

We consider the Saintillan--Shelley kinetic model of active rodlike particles in Stokes flow (Saintillan & Shelley 2008a,b), for which the uniform, isotropic suspension of pusher particles is known to be unstable in certain settings.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-15 Laurel Ohm , Michael J. Shelley

We investigate numerically the effect of the competition of disorder, nonlinearity, and boundaries on the Anderson localization of light waves in finite-size, one-dimensional waveguide arrays. Using the discrete Anderson - nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. I. Molina , N. Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

We introduce a one-dimensional model based on the nonlinear Schrodinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation where the local nonlinearity is subject to spatially periodic modulation in terms of the Jacobi dn function, with three free parameters…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-17 E. Ding , H. N. Chan , K. W. Chow , K. Nakkeeran , B. A. Malomed

Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns in which domains of synchronous and asynchronous dynamics coexist in coupled systems of oscillators. We examine how the character of the individual elements influences chimera states by…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-09-02 Iryna Omelchenko , Anna Zakharova , Philipp Hoevel , Julien Siebert , Eckehard Schoell

Motivated by recent experimental studies of matter-waves and optical beams in double well potentials, we study the solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in such a context. Using a Galerkin-type approach, we obtain a detailed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher

Nonlinear wave propagation plays a crucial role in the functioning of many physical and biophysical systems. In the propagation regime, disturbances due to the presence of local external perturbations, such as localised defects or boundary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-20 Juan F. Marín

The modulational instability and discrete matter wave solitons in dipolar BEC, loaded into a deep optical lattice, are investigated analytically and numerically. The process of modulational instability of nonlinear plane matter waves in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Rojas-Rojas , R. A. Vicencio , M. I. Molina , F. Kh. Abdullaev

We study the existence, stability, and mobility of fundamental discrete solitons in two- and three-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger lattices with a combination of cubic self-focusing and quintic self-defocusing onsite nonlinearities.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-11 C. Chong , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , B. A. Malomed , P. G. Kevrekidis

The statics, stability and dynamical properties of dark-bright soliton pairs are investigated motivated by applications in a homogeneous system of two-component repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. One of the intra-species…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-02 G. C. Katsimiga , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. Prinari , G. Biondini , P. Schmelcher

The nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with derivative cubic nonlinearity admits a family of solitons, which are orbitally stable in the energy space. In this work, we prove the orbital stability of multi-solitons configurations in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Stefan Le Coz , Yifei Wu

We examine the dynamics of a bright solitary wave in the presence of a repulsive or attractive localized ``impurity'' in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We study the generation and stability of a pair of steady states in the vicinity of…

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

Chains of parametrically driven, damped pendula are known to support soliton-like clusters of in-phase motion which become unstable and seed spatiotemporal chaos for sufficiently large driving amplitudes. We show that the pinning of the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Alexeeva , I. V. Barashenkov , G. P. Tsironis

Symmetry breaking is reported for continuous families of solitons in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a two-dimensional complex potential. This symmetry-breaking bifurcation is forbidden in generic complex potentials. However, for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Jianke Yang

We characterize the full family of soliton solutions sitting over a background plane wave and ruled by the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the regime where a quintic focusing term represents a saturation of the cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Crosta , A. Fratalocchi , S. Trillo

In this paper we investigate the emergence of time-periodic and and time-quasiperiodic (sometimes infinitely long lived and sometimes very long lived or metastable) solutions of discrete nonlinear wave equations: discrete sine Gordon,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Kevrekidis , M. I. Weinstein

We study a modified Bullard dynamo and show that this system is equivalent to a nonlinear oscillator subject to a multiplicative noise. The stability analysis of this oscillator is performed. Two bifurcations are identified, first towards…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Bérengère Dubrulle , Franck Plunian

Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, complemented by a confining potential, possesses a discrete set of stationary solutions. These are called coherent modes, since the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation describes coherent states. Such modes are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova
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