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Discrete Ginzburg-Landau solitons
Nikolaos K Efremidis1, Demetrios N Christodoulides
1School of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2700, USA.
Abstract:
We demonstrate that discrete solitons are possible in Ginzburg-Landau lattices. As a result of discreteness, we find that this system exhibits a host of features that have no counterpart whatsoever in either the continuous limit or in other conservative discrete models.