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T R O Melvin1, A R Champneys, P G Kevrekidis
1Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TR, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
The long-standing problem of moving discrete solitary waves in nonlinear Schrödinger lattices is revisited. The context is photorefractive crystal lattices with saturable nonlinearity whose grand-canonical energy barrier vanishes for isolated coupling strength values. Genuinely localized traveling waves are computed as a function of the system parameters for the first time. The relevant solutions exist only for finite velocities.
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