Vibrations and oscillatory instabilities of gap solitons

IV Barashenkov, DE Pelinovsky, EV Zemlyanaya - Physical review letters, 1998 - APS
Stability of optical gap solitons is analyzed within a coupled-mode theory. Lower intensity
solitons are shown to always possess a vibration mode responsible for their long-lived …

Numerical methods for nonlinear Dirac equation

J Xu, S Shao, H Tang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the current state-of-the-art of numerical methods for
nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation. Several methods are extendedly proposed for the (1+ 1) …

Stable directions for small nonlinear Dirac standing waves

N Boussaid - Communications in mathematical physics, 2006 - Springer
We prove that for a Dirac operator, with no resonance at thresholds nor eigenvalue at
thresholds, the propagator satisfies propagation and dispersive estimates. When this linear …

[HTML][HTML] On spectral stability of the nonlinear Dirac equation

N Boussaïd, A Comech - Journal of Functional Analysis, 2016 - Elsevier
We study the point spectrum of the nonlinear Dirac equation in any spatial dimension,
linearized at one of the solitary wave solutions. We prove that, in any dimension, the …

[HTML][HTML] On linear instability of solitary waves for the nonlinear Dirac equation

A Comech, M Guan, S Gustafson - Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) …, 2014 - Elsevier
We consider the nonlinear Dirac equation, also known as the Soler model: i∂ t ψ=− i α⋅∇
ψ+ m β ψ−(ψ⁎ β ψ) k β ψ, m> 0, ψ (x, t)∈ CN, x∈ R n, k∈ N. We study the point spectrum of …

Interaction for the solitary waves of a nonlinear Dirac model

S Shao, H Tang - Physics Letters A, 2005 - Elsevier
This Letter presents a numerical study of the interaction dynamics for the solitary waves of a
nonlinear Dirac field with scalar self-interaction by using a fourth order accurate Runge …

Solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation

J Cuevas-Maraver, N Boussaïd, A Comech… - Nonlinear Systems, Vol …, 2018 - Springer
In the present work, we consider the existence, stability, and dynamics of solitary waves in
the nonlinear Dirac equation. We start by introducing the Soler model of self-interacting …

An efficient adaptive mesh redistribution method for a non-linear Dirac equation

H Wang, H Tang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper presents an efficient adaptive mesh redistribution method to solve a non-linear
Dirac (NLD) equation. Our algorithm is formed by three parts: the NLD evolution, the iterative …

Oscillatory instabilities of gap solitons: a numerical study

IV Barashenkov, EV Zemlyanaya - Computer physics communications, 2000 - Elsevier
We study stability of optical gap solitons, close relatives of spinor solitons of nonlinear
classical field theory. The analysis of the associated linearized eigenvalue problem …

Vakhitov–Kolokolov and energy vanishing conditions for linear instability of solitary waves in models of classical self-interacting spinor fields

G Berkolaiko, A Comech, A Sukhtayev - Nonlinearity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the linear stability of localized modes in self-interacting spinor fields, analysing the
spectrum of the operator corresponding to linearization at solitary waves. Following the …