Band-edge solitons, nonlinear schrödinger/gross-pitaevskii equations, and effective media

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1055-1101

  Ilan, B ^a   Weinstein, M I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bose Einstein condensates; Lyapunov Schmidt reduction; Multiple scales; Nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

BAND EDGE; BLOCH STATE; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; BOUND STATE; CRITICAL POWER; DEFOCUSING; EFFECTIVE MASS; EFFECTIVE MEDIA; EIGEN FUNCTION; LYAPUNOV-SCHMIDT REDUCTION; MULTIPLE SCALE; NLS EQUATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR COUPLING; NONLINEAR WAVES; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; OPTICAL BEAMS; PERIODIC POTENTIALS; POINT OF SYMMETRY; SELF-FOCUSING; SPECTRAL BAND; SPECTRAL GAP; TRANSLATION INVARIANTS;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FOCUSING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; SOLITONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STEAM CONDENSERS; TENSORS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955110225     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090769417     Document Type: Article

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