Travelling solitary waves in the discrete Schrödinger equation with saturable nonlinearity: Existence, stability and dynamics

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 237, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 551-567

  Melvin, T R O ^a   Champneys, A R ^a   Kevrekidis, P G ^b   Cuevas, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discrete nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Discrete solitons; Numerical continuation; Photorefractive crystals; Pseudo spectral method; Saturable nonlinearity; Stability; Travelling waves; Vanishing PN barrier

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; SOLITONS;

DISCRETE NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; DISCRETE SOLITONS; NUMERICAL CONTINUATION; PSEUDO SPECTRAL METHODS; SATURABLE NONLINEARITY; TRAVELLING WAVES; VANISHING PN BARRIER;

SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

EID: 39849099380     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2007.09.026     Document Type: Article

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