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Bistability and instability of dark-antidark solitons in the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Dept. of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, I-00185, Rome (Italy)
  2. PRIMALIGHT, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900 (Saudi Arabia)
  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Universita di Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, I-44122 Ferrara (Italy)
We characterize the full family of soliton solutions sitting over a background plane wave and ruled by the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the regime where a quintic focusing term represents a saturation of the cubic defocusing nonlinearity. We discuss the existence and properties of solitons in terms of catastrophe theory and fully characterize bistability and instabilities of the dark-antidark pairs, revealing mechanisms of decay of antidark solitons into dispersive shock waves.
OSTI ID:
22095699
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 84; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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