Discrete soliton collisions in a waveguide array with saturable nonlinearity

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Cuevas-Maraver, Jesús, Eilbeck, J. Chris
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/24781
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/24781
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2006.04.095
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Solitons
Waveguide arrays
Saturable nonlinearity
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Sumario: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 systems with a saturable nonlinearity, and has been previously observed in continuous models. In some cases a “symmetry breaking” can be observed, which we show to be an numerical artifact.