The effect of the modulation instability on the propagation of solitary waves along one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is revisited. A self-contained quasicontinuum approximation is developed to derive closed-form expressions for small-amplitude solitary waves. The notion that the existence of nonlinear solitary waves is a signature of the modulation instability is used to analytically study instability effects on solitons during propagation. In particular, we concern with instability effects in the dark region, where other analytical methods as the standard modulation analysis of planewaves do not provide any information on solitons. The region of high-velocity solitons is studied anew showing that solitons are less prone to intabilities in this region. An analytical upper boundary for the self-defocusing instability is defined.
A study of high-order solitons in three nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equations is presented, which includes the \PT-symmetric, reverse-time, and reverse-space-time nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equations. General high-order solitons in three different equations are derived from the same Riemann-Hilbert solutions of the AKNS hierarchy, except for the difference in the corresponding symmetry relations on the "perturbed" scattering data. Dynamics of general high-order solitons in these equations is further analyzed. It is shown that the high-order fundamental-soliton is always moving on severa…
Resonant Y-shaped soliton solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II (KPII) equation are modelled as shock solutions to an infinite family of modulation conservation laws. The fully two-dimensional soliton modulation equations, valid in the zero dispersion limit of the KPII equation, are demonstrated to reduce to a one-dimensional system. In this same limit, the rapid transition from the larger Y soliton stem to the two smaller legs limits to a travelling discontinuity. This discontinuity is a multivalued, weak solution satisfying modified Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions for the one-dimension…
We study the existence, formation and dynamics of gray solitons for an extended quintic nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. The considered model finds applications to water waves, when the characteristic parameter $kh$ - where $k$ is the wavenumber and $h$ is the undistorted water's depth - takes the critical value $kh=1.363$. It is shown that this model admits approximate dark soliton solutions emerging from an effective Korteweg-de Vries equation and that two types of gray solitons exist: fast and slow, with the latter being almost stationary objects. Analytical results are corroborated by…
The existence of soliton families in non-parity-time-symmetric complex potentials remains poorly understood, especially in two spatial dimensions. In this article, we analytically investigate the bifurcation of soliton families from linear modes in one- and two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations with localized Wadati-type non-parity-time-symmetric complex potentials. By utilizing the conservation law of the underlying non-Hamiltonian wave system, we convert the complex soliton equation into a new real system. For this new real system, we perturbatively construct a continuous family of…
In this letter we report the existence of nondegenerate fundamental bright soliton solution for coupled multi-component nonlinear Schrödinger equations of Manakov type. To derive this class of nondegenerate vector soliton solutions, we adopt the Hirota bilinear method with appopriate general class of seed solutions. Very interestingly the obtained nondegenerate fundamental soliton solution of the $N$-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CNLS) system admits multi-hump natured intensity profiles. We explicitly demonstrate this specific property by considering the nondegenerate soliton solutions for $3…
We derive an exact solution to the local nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) using the Darboux transformation method. The new solution describes the profile and dynamics of a two-soliton molecule. Using an algebraically-decaying seed solution, we obtain a two-soliton solution with diverging peaks, which we denote as singular soliton molecule. We find that the new solution has a finite binding energy. We calculate the force and potential of interaction between the two solitons, which turn out to be of molecular-type. The robustness of the bond between the two solitons is also verified. Furthe…
In this paper, we report a more general class of nondegenerate soliton solutions, associated with two distinct wave numbers in different modes, for a certain class of physically important integrable two component nonlinear Schrödinger type equations through bilinearization procedure. In particular, we consider coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CNLS) equations (both focusing as well as mixed type nonlinearities), coherently coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CCNLS) equations and long-wave-short-wave resonance interaction (LSRI) system. We point out that the obtained general form of soliton solutions e…
We numerically investigate the long time dynamics of spatially periodic breather solutions of the 1-D nonlinear Schrödinger equation under parametric forcing of the form $f(x)=f_0 \exp(iKx)$ along with dissipation. In the absence of dissipation, robust soliton-like excitations are observed that travel with constant amplitude and velocity. With dissipation, these solitons lose energy (and amplitude) yet gain speed - a characteristic not observed in an ordinary soliton. Moreover, these novel solitons are found to be stable against random perturbations.
General $N$-solitons in three recently-proposed nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equations are presented. These nonlocal equations include the reverse-space, reverse-time, and reverse-space-time nonlinear Schrödinger equations, which are nonlocal reductions of the Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur (AKNS) hierarchy. It is shown that general $N$-solitons in these different equations can be derived from the same Riemann-Hilbert solutions of the AKNS hierarchy, except that symmetry relations on the scattering data are different for these equations. This Riemann-Hilbert framework allows us to identify new t…
The generation of high-intensity optical fields from harmonic-wave photons, interacting via a cross-phase modulation with dark solitons both propagating in a Kerr nonlinear medium, is examined. The focus is on a pump consisting of time-entangled dark-soliton patterns, forming a periodic waveguide along the path of the harmonic-wave probe. It is shown that an increase of the strength of cross-phase modulation respective to the self-phase modulation, favors soliton-mode proliferation in the bound-state spectrum of the trapped harmonic-wave probe. The induced soliton modes, which display the stru…
We construct soliton solution of a variable coefficients nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the presence of parity reflection - time reversal $(\mathcal{PT})-$ symmetric Rosen-Morse potential using similarity transformation technique. We transform the variable coefficients nonlinear Schrödinger equation into the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with $\mathcal{PT}-$symmetric potential with certain integrability conditions. We investigate in-detail the features of the obtained soliton solutions with two different forms of dispersion parameters. Further, we analyze the nonlinear tunneling effect of …
We point out certain basic misconceptions and incorrect statements given by Gürses and Pekcan in the recent paper {\bf J. Math. Phys. 59, 051501 (2018)}. We re-emphasize the soliton solution derived by us earlier in {\bf Phys. Lett. A. 381, 2380 (2017)} for the reverse space nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation is correct and more general and contains the solutions given by Gürses and Pekcan as special cases.
The extended nonlinear Schrödinger (ENLS) equation with third-order term and fourth-order term which describes the wave propagation in the optical fibers is more accurate than the NLS equation. A study of high-order soliton matrix is presented for an ENLS equation in the framework of the Riemann-Hilbert problem (RHP). Through a standard dressing procedure and the generalized Darboux transformation (gDT), soliton matrix for simple zeros and elementary high-order zeros in the RHP for the ENLS equation are constructed. Then the N-soliton solutions and high-order soliton solutions for the ENLS equ…
We introduce multi-soliton sets in the two-dimensional medium with the second-harmonic-generating nonlinearity subject to spatial modulation in the form of a triangle of singular peaks. Various families of symmetric and asymmetric sets are constructed, and their stability is investigated. Stable symmetric patterns may be built of 1, 4, or 7 individual solitons, while stable asymmetric ones contain 1, 2, or 3 solitons. Symmetric and asymmetric patterns may demonstrate mutual bistability. The shift of the asymmetric single-soliton state from the central position is accurately predicted analytica…
We study the integrable nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation proposed by Ablowitz and Musslimani, that is considered as a particular example of equations with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric self-induced potential. We consider dynamics (including collisions) of moving solitons. Analytically we develop a collective coordinate approach based on variational methods and examine its applicability in the system. We show numerically that a single moving soliton can pass the origin and decay or be trapped at the origin and blows up at a finite time. Using a standard soliton ansatz, the varia…
