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Solitary waves in the Nonlinear Dirac Equation
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, and three spatial dimensions and the equations they satisfy. We
present the associated explicit solutions in one dimension and numerically
obtain their analogues in higher dimensions. The stability is subsequently
discussed from a theoretical perspective and then complemented with numerical
computations. Finally, the dynamics of the solutions is explored and compared
to its non-relativistic analogue, which is the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger
equation. A few special topics are also explored, including the discrete
variant of the nonlinear Dirac equation and its solitary wave properties, as
well as the PT-symmetric variant of the model
Modulation Instability in Two-dimensional Nonlinear Schrodinger Lattice Models with Dispersion and Long-range Interactions
"The problem of modulation instability of continuous wave and array soliton solutions in the framework of a two-dimensional continuum-discrete nonlinear Schrodinger lattice model which accounts for dispersion and ling-range interactIONS BETWEEN ELEMENTS, IS INVESTIGATED. APPLICATION OF THE LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS BASED ON AN ENERGETIC PRINCIPLE AND A VARIATIONAL APPROACH, WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED FOR THE CONTINUUM NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER MODEL, IS PROPOSED. Analytical expressions for the corresponding instability thresholds and the growth rate spectra are calculated.
Solitons in the discrete nonpolynomial Schrodinger equation
We introduce a species of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger (DNLS) equation, which is a model for a self-attractive Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a combination of a cigar-shaped trap and deep optical lattice acting in the axial direction. The equation is derived as a discretization of the respective nonlinear nonpolynomial Schrodinger equation. Unlike previously considered varieties of one-dimensional DNLS equations, the present discrete model admits on-site collapse. We find two families of unstaggered on-site-centered discrete solitons, stable and unstable ones, which include, respectively, broad and narrow solitons, their stability exactly complying with the Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion. Unstable on-site solitons either decay or transform themselves into robust breathers. Intersite-centered unstaggered solitons are unstable to collapse; however, they may be stabilized by the application of a sufficiently strong kick, which turns them into moving localized modes. Persistently moving solitons can be readily created too by the application of the kick to stable on-site unstaggered solitons. In the same model, staggered solitons, which are counterparts of gap solitons in the continuum medium, are possible if the intrinsic nonlinearity is self-repulsive. All on-site staggered solitons are stable, while intersite ones have a small instability region. The staggered solitons are immobile
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High-speed kinks in a generalized discrete phi(4) model
We consider a generalized discrete ϕ4 model and demonstrate that it can support exact moving kink solutions in the form of tanh with an arbitrarily large velocity. The constructed exact moving solutions are dependent on the specific value of the propagation velocity. We demonstrate that in this class of models, given a specific velocity, the problem of finding the exact moving solution is integrable. Namely, this problem originally expressed as a three-point map can be reduced to a two-point map, from which the exact moving solutions can be derived iteratively. It was also found that these high-speed kinks can be stable and robust against perturbations introduced in the initial conditions