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Title: Existence of dark solitons in a class of stationary nonlinear Schroedinger equations with periodically modulated nonlinearity and periodic asymptotics

Journal Article · · Journal of Mathematical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3559118· OSTI ID:21501289
 [1];  [2]
  1. Departamento de Matematicas, E. T. S. de Ingenieros Industriales and Instituto de Matematica Aplicada a la Ciencia y la Ingenieria (IMACI), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real (Spain)
  2. Grupo de Fisica No Lineal, Departamento de Fisica Aplicada I, Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Virgen de Africa, 7, 41011 Sevilla (Spain)

In this paper, we give a proof of the existence of stationary dark soliton solutions or heteroclinic orbits of nonlinear equations of Schroedinger type with periodic inhomogeneous nonlinearity. The result is illustrated with examples of dark solitons for cubic and photorefractive nonlinearities.

OSTI ID:
21501289
Journal Information:
Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 52, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3559118; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0022-2488
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English