Coupled-mode equations and gap solitons in a two-dimensional nonlinear elliptic problem with a separable periodic potential

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-131

  Dohnal, Tomáš ^a,b   Pelinovsky, Dmitry ^c   Schneider, Guido ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coupled mode equations; Existence of gap solitons; Fourier Bloch transform; Gross Pitaevskii equation; Lyapunov Schmidt reductions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867925558     PISSN: 09388974     EISSN: 14321467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-008-9027-9     Document Type: Article

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