Generation of localized patterns in anharmonic lattices with cubic-quintic nonlinearities and fourth-order dispersion

Etienne Wamba1,2,3, Aurélien S Tchakoutio Nguetcho4,5

  • 1State Research Center OPTIMAS, and Fachbereich Physik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Physical Review. E
|June 17, 2018
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