Thresholds for soliton creation in the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice

DOI10.1016/J.MATCOM.2009.08.022MaRDI QIDQ2655817zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Adrián Espínola-Rocha, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Publication date 26 January 2010

Published in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2009.08.022

zbMATH Keywords

Ablowitz-Ladik equationdiscrete solitonsexcitation thresholdsnon-linear Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60)

Review text

The impact of square barrier initial conditions on the formation of solitary waves in discrete integrable lattices of the nonlinear Schrödinger type is considered. For the single-component Ablowitz-Ladik lattice it is obtained that a single-site excitation will not lead to a soliton formation, two-and three-site excitations will produce a soliton above a certain threshold barrier. Four-site square excitations or three-site non-square barrier excitations can even lead to two eigenvalues pairs with \(|z|>1\) and the concomitant formation of robust breathing states (breathing solitons). For the two-component system, i.e., the integrable discretization of the Manakov lattice, the authors showed that again one-site excitations cannot result in solitons. Two-site initial conditions represent the simplest initial condition that may lead to a soliton, while three-site initial conditions with partially overlapping support represent the simplest excitation that may result into robust breathing states (breathing solitons).

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