Universal Critical Power for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with a Symmetric Double Well Potential

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Sacchetti, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC BRANCH; CRITICAL POWER; CRITICAL VALUE; DINGER EQUATION; DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIAL; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR TERMS; PITCHFORK BIFURCATIONS; SADDLE NODE BIFURCATION; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT; SPATIAL DIMENSION; STATIONARY STATE; SUPER-CRITICAL;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CONTROL NONLINEARITIES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 70450060025     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.194101     Document Type: Article

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