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We present numerical and analytical results for the reflection and transmission properties of matter wave solitons impinging on localized scattering potentials in one spatial dimension. Our mean field analysis identifies regimes where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-22 Sidse Damgaard Hansen , Nicolai Nygaard , Klaus Mølmer

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying scattering length. It is demonstrated that, even in the absence of any external trapping potential, a soliton can be confined due to the inhomogeneous…

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A periodically inhomogeneous Schrodinger equation is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the linear and non-linear term in the equation. Due to the periodic inhomogeneity of the linear term, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-01-16 R. Marangell , H. Susanto , C. K. R. T. Jones

In this communication we report on a peculiar property of barrier transmission that systems governed by the nonlinear Schroedinger equation share with the linear one: For unit transmission the potential can be divided at an arbitrary point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 K. Rapedius , H. J. Korsch

We study scattering of quasi one-dimensional matter-waves at an interface of two spatial domains, one with repulsive and one with attractive interatomic interactions. It is shown that the incidence of a Gaussian wavepacket from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 F. Tsitoura , P. Krüger , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We explore the phenomena of absorption/emission of solitons by an integrable boundary for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half-line. This is based on the investigation of time-dependent reflection matrices which satisfy the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-02-01 Vincent Caudrelier , Nicolas Crampe , Eric Ragoucy , Cheng Zhang

Based on the work of Nuttall and Cohen [Phys. Rev. {\bf 188} (1969) 1542] and Resigno et al{} [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 55} (1997) 4253] we present a rigorous formalism for solving the scattering problem for long-range interactions without using…

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Stability of soliton families in one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations with non-parity-time (PT)-symmetric complex potentials is investigated numerically. It is shown that these solitons can be linearly stable in a wide range of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianke Yang , Sean Nixon

We show that, for the 1d cubic NLS equation, widely separated equal amplitude in-phase solitons attract and opposite-phase solitons repel. Our result gives an exact description of the evolution of the two solitons valid until the solitons…

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We consider the Schr\"odinger equation with a Hamiltonian given by a second order difference operator with nonconstant growing coefficients, on the half one dimensional lattice. This operator appeared first naturally in the construction and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 August J. Krueger , Avy Soffer

Non linear fiber optics concerns with the non linear optical phenomena occurring inside optical fibers. The propagation of light in single-mode fibers is governed by the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) in the presence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Domenico Felice

Solitons confined in a channel are studied in the two-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation. When a channel branches into two channels, a soliton is split into two solitons, if the initial kinetic energy exceeds a critical value. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-09-20 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Yusuke Kageyama

Existence and bifurcation results are derived for quasi periodic traveling waves of discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equations with nonlocal interactions and with polynomial type potentials. Variational tools are used. Several concrete…

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We report localized nonlinear modes of the self-focusing and defocusing nonlocal nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the generalized PT-symmetric Scarf-II, Rosen-Morse, and periodic potentials. Parameter regions are presented for broken…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-31 Zichao Wen , Zhenya Yan

Most of the reflectometry methods which are used for determining the phase of complex reflection coefficient such as reference method and Variation of Surroundings medium are based on solving the Schr\"odinger equation using a discontinuous…

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The thermal conductance by phonons of a quasi-one-dimensional solid with isotope or defect scattering is studied using the Landauer formalism for thermal transport. The conductance shows a crossover from localized to Ohmic behavior, just as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 P. G. Murphy , J. E. Moore

Dynamics of a chain of interacting parity-time invariant nonlinear dimers is investigated. A dimer is built as a pair of coupled elements with equal gain and loss. A relation between stationary soliton solutions of the model and solitons of…

We investigate exact travelling wave solutions of higher order nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the absence of third order dispersion, which exhibit non-trivial self phase modulation. It is shown that, the corresponding dynamical equation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-01 Anshul Saini , Vivek M. Vyas , S. N. Pandey , T. Solomon Raju , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We study the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) in an annular geometry with on-site defects. The dynamics of a traveling plane-wave maps onto an effective ''non-rigid pendulum'' Hamiltonian. The different regimes include the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Trombettoni , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop