Instability of bound states of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a Dirac potential

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 237, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1103-1128

  Le Coz, Stefan ^a   Fukuizumi, Reika ^b   Fibich, Gadi ^c   Ksherim, Baruch ^c   Sivan, Yonatan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collapse; Dirac delta; Instability; Lattice defects; Nonlinear waves; Solitary waves

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLITONS;

DIRAC DELTA; NONLINEAR WAVES;

SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

EID: 43049140512     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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