Coupled mode equations and gap solitons for the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a non-separable periodic potential (Q2389366)

The coupled mode equations (CME) which approximate stationary gap solitons (GSs) of the 2D periodic nonlinear Schrödinger/Gross-Pitaevskii Equation near band edge are derived. Because no assumptions on the form of the periodic potential \(V(x)\) are made, the CME derivation is carried out in Bloch rather than physical coordinates. Using the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction it is shown that the reversible non-degenerate solitons of the CME yield GSs of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The results are confirmed by numerical examples, including some new families of CMEs and gap solitons absent for separable potentials. It is featured a new GSs bifurcation from a band edge Bloch wave located outside the set of vertices of the first Brillouin zone.