Solitary wave solutions as a signature of the instability in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.07.082zbMATH Open1233.35177arXiv0901.2865OpenAlexW1982323870MaRDI QIDQ665373FDOQ665373

Authors: Edward Arévalo 

Publication date: 5 March 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The effect of the modulation instability on the propagation of solitary waves along one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is revisited. A self-contained quasicontinuum approximation is developed to derive closed-form expressions for small-amplitude solitary waves. The notion that the existence of nonlinear solitary waves is a signature of the modulation instability is used to analytically study instability effects on solitons during propagation. In particular, we concern with instability effects in the dark region, where other analytical methods as the standard modulation analysis of planewaves do not provide any information on solitons. The region of high-velocity solitons is studied anew showing that solitons are less prone to intabilities in this region. An analytical upper boundary for the self-defocusing instability is defined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2865

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zbMATH Keywords

solitonsmodulation stability analysisdiscrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

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