Spontaneous symmetry breaking of solitons trapped in a double-channel potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Matuszewski, M ^a   Malomed, B A ^b   Trippenbach, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SELF-FOCUSING NONLINEARITY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION (VA);

SOLITONS;

EID: 34347365294     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.063621     Document Type: Article

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