Symmetry breaking in symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Theocharis, G ^a   Kevrekidis, P G ^b   Frantzeskakis, D J ^a   Schmelcher, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LIGHT; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR SOLUTION; OPTICAL BEAMS; STEADY STATES;

WAVES;

EID: 33751269648     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.056608     Document Type: Article

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