On the stability of time-harmonic localized states in a disordered nonlinear medium

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 1077-1115

  Bronski, Jared C ^a   McLaughlin, David W ^b   Shelley, Michael J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear schr dinger equation; Random media

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040513014     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02732426     Document Type: Article

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