Nonlinear optical waveguide lattices: Asymptotic analysis, solitons, and topological insulators

MJ Ablowitz, JT Cole - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the study of wave propagation in
nonlinear photonic lattices. The interplay between nonlinearity and periodicity has led …

Wave packets in honeycomb structures and two-dimensional Dirac equations

CL Fefferman, MI Weinstein - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2014 - Springer
In a recent article (Fefferman and Weinstein, in J Am Math Soc 25: 1169–1220, 2012), the
authors proved that the non-relativistic Schrödinger operator with a generic honeycomb …

Honeycomb Schrödinger operators in the strong binding regime

CL Fefferman, JP Lee‐Thorp… - … on Pure and Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we study the Schrödinger operator for a large class of periodic potentials with
the symmetry of a hexagonal tiling of the plane. The potentials we consider are …

Elliptic operators with honeycomb symmetry: Dirac points, edge states and applications to photonic graphene

JP Lee-Thorp, MI Weinstein, Y Zhu - Archive for Rational Mechanics and …, 2019 - Springer
Consider electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional honeycomb structured media, whose
constitutive laws have the symmetries of a hexagonal tiling of the plane. The properties of …

Tight-binding methods for general longitudinally driven photonic lattices: Edge states and solitons

MJ Ablowitz, JT Cole - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
A systematic approach for deriving tight-binding approximations in general longitudinally
driven lattices is presented. As prototypes, honeycomb and staggered square lattices are …

Bifurcations of standing localized waves on periodic graphs

D Pelinovsky, G Schneider - Annales Henri Poincaré, 2017 - Springer
The nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is considered on a periodic graph subject to the
Kirchhoff boundary conditions. Bifurcations of standing localized waves for frequencies lying …

Symmetry breaking in two–dimensional square grids: persistence and failure of the dimensional crossover

S Dovetta, L Tentarelli - Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, 2022 - Elsevier
We discuss the model robustness of the infinite two–dimensional square grid with respect to
symmetry breakings due to the presence of defects, that is, lacks of finitely or infinitely many …

Validity of the NLS approximation for periodic quantum graphs

S Gilg, D Pelinovsky, G Schneider - Nonlinear Differential Equations and …, 2016 - Springer
We consider a nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation on a spatially extended periodic
quantum graph. With a multiple scaling expansion, an effective amplitude equation can be …

The nonlinear Dirac equation in Bose–Einstein condensates: vortex solutions and spectra in a weak harmonic trap

LH Haddad, LD Carr - New Journal of Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the vortex solution space of the $(2+ 1) $-dimensional nonlinear Dirac equation
for bosons in a honeycomb optical lattice at length scales much larger than the lattice …

The nonlinear Dirac equation in Bose–Einstein condensates: superfluid fluctuations and emergent theories from relativistic linear stability equations

LH Haddad, LD Carr - New Journal of Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the theoretical and mathematical foundations of stability analysis for a Bose–
Einstein condensate (BEC) at Dirac points of a honeycomb optical lattice. The combination …