CUEVAS-MARAVER , Jesús

In this Chapter, we touch upon the wide topic of discrete breather (DB) formation with a special emphasis on the prototypical system of interest, namely the 4 model. We start by introducing the model and discussing some of the application areas/motivational aspects of exploring time periodic, spatially localized structures, such as the DBs....

The interplay of nonlinearity and topology results in many novel and emergent properties across a number of physical systems such as chiral magnets, nematic liquid crystals, Bose-Einstein condensates, photonics, high energy physics, etc. It also results in a wide variety of topological defects such as solitons, vortices, skyrmions, merons,...

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We present some results on breather collisions in DNLS lattices, with special focus on systems with saturable nonlinearity. We also review some other works concerning to collisons in FPU and Klein-Gordon lattices, proposing future challenges.

In this paper, we examine a nonlinear model with an impurity emulating a bend. We justify the geometric interpretation of the model and connect it with earlier work on models including geometric effects. We focus on both the bifurcation and stability analysis of the modes that emerge as a function of the strength of the bend angle, but we also...

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

Interstitials and vacancies, in one-dimensional lattices, are point defects that can be modelled by means of kinks or antikinks in a discrete Frenkel-Kontorova model, with a sine-Gordon on-site potential. The properties of kinks and antikinks are the same if a harmonic interaction potential is considered. The ratchet properties of these defects...

In this paper, we construct, by means of similarity transformations, explicit solutions to the cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with potentials and nonlinearities depending on both time and spatial coordinates. We present the general approach and use it to calculate bright and dark soliton solutions for nonlinearities and potentials...

We study the symmetric collisions of two mobile breathers/solitons in a model for coupled wave guides with a saturable nonlinearity. The saturability allows the existence of mobile breathers with high power. Three main regimes are observed: breather fusion, breather reflection and breather creation. The last regime seems to be exclusive of...

In this manuscript we review the possibility of inducing large coherence in a macroscopic dense target by using adiabatic techniques. For this purpose we investigate the degradation of the laser pulse through propagation, which was also related to the size of the prepared medium. Our results show that, although adiabatic techniques offer the...

We prove nonexistence of breathers (spatially localized and time-periodic oscillations) for a class of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices representing an uncompressed chain of beads interacting via Hertz's contact forces. We then consider the setting in which an additional on-site potential is present, motivated by the Newton's cradle under the effect...

We study discrete breathers in prototypical nonlinear oscillator networks subjected to nonharmonic zero-mean periodic excitations. We show how the generation of stationary and moving discrete breathers are optimally controlled by solely varying the impulse transmitted by the periodic excitations, while keeping constant the excitation's...

We study localized waves in chains of oscillators coupled by Hertzian interactions and trapped in local potentials. This problem is originally motivated by Newton's cradle, a mechanical system consisting of a chain of touching beads subject to gravity and attached to inelastic strings. We consider an unusual setting with local oscillations and...

In the present work, we introduce a discrete formulation of the nonlinear Dirac equation in the form of a discretization of the Gross – Neveu model. The motivation for this discrete model proposal is both computational (near the continuum limit) and theoretical (using the understanding of the anti-con- tinuum limit of vanishing coupling)....

The discrete complex Ginzburg–Landau equation is a fundamental model for the dynamics of nonlinear lattices incorporating competitive dissipation and energy gain effects. Such mechanisms are of particular importance for the study of survival/destruction of localised structures in many physical situations. In this work, we prove that in the...

The Ablowitz–Ladik system, being one of the few integrable nonlinear lattices, admits a wide class of analytical solutions, ranging from exact spatially localized solitons to rational solutions in the form of the spatiotemporally localized discrete Peregrine soliton. Proving a closeness result between the solutions of the Ablowitz–Ladik system...

Ratchet dynamics of topological solitons of the forced and damped discrete double sine-Gordon system are studied. Directed transport occurring both in regular and in chaotic regions of the phase space and its dependence on damping, amplitude, and frequency of the driving, asymmetry parameter, and coupling constant, has been extensively...

While the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice is integrable, the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which is more significant for physical applications, is not. We prove closeness of the solutions of both systems in the sense of a "continuous dependence" on their initial data in the and metrics. The most striking relevance of the analytical results...

In this work, we explore a prototypical example of a genuine continuum breather (i.e., not a standing wave) and the conditions under which it can persist in a -symmetric medium. As our model of interest, we will explore the sine-Gordon equation in the presence of a -symmetric perturbation. Our main finding is that the breather of the...