Localized Excitations in Nonlinear Complex Systems Current State of the Art and Future Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carretero-González, Ricardo (Editor), Cuevas-Maraver, Jesús (Editor), Frantzeskakis, Dimitri (Editor), Karachalios, Nikos (Editor), Kevrekidis, Panayotis (Editor), Palmero-Acebedo, Faustino (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Nonlinear Systems and Complexity, 7
• Subjects: Physics.; System theory.; Solid state physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Complexity, Computational.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Solid State Physics.; Complexity.; Complex Systems.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

The study of nonlinear localized excitations is a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science, as well as engineering, due to their importance in understanding and predicting phenomena arising in nonlinear and complex systems, but also due to their potential for the development...

Table of Contents:

• Nonlinear Schrödinger Models: Continuum and Discrete Solitons and their Ghosts in PT-Symmetric Systems with Defocusing Nonlinearities
• Coding of Nonlinear States for NLS-Type Equations with Periodic Potential
• Nonreciprocal Wave Propagation Through Open, Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger dimers
• Breather Solutions of the discrete p-Schrödinger.