Stationary solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation: I. Case of repulsive nonlinearity

All stationary solutions to the one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation under box or periodic boundary conditions are presented in analytic form for the case of attractive nonlinearity. A companion paper has treated the repulsive case. Our solutions take the form of bounded, quantized, stationary trains of bright solitons. Among them are two uniquely nonlinear classes of nodeless solutions, whose properties and physical meaning are discussed in detail. The full set of...

It is shown that the quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate is experimentally accessible and rich in intriguing phenomena. We demonstrate numerically and analytically the existence, stability, and perturbation-induced dynamics of all types of stationary states of the quasi-one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation for both repulsive and attractive cases. Among our results are: the connection between stationary states and solitons; creation of vortices from such s...

It is argued that the integrable modified nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the nonlinearity dispersion term is the true starting point to analytically describe subpicosecond pulse dynamics in monomode fibers. Contrary to the known assertions, solitons of this equation are free of self-steepining and the breather formation is possible.

The stability properties and perturbation-induced dynamics of the full set of stationary states of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation are investigated numerically in two physical contexts: periodic solutions on a ring and confinement by a harmonic potential. Our comprehensive studies emphasize physical interpretations useful to experimentalists. Perturbation by stochastic white noise, phase engineering, and higher order nonlinearity are considered. We treat both attractive a...

We present a series of quantum states that are characterized by dark solitons of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (i.e. the Gross-Pitaevskii equation) for the one-dimensional (1D) Bose gas interacting through the repulsive delta-function potentials. The classical solutions satisfy the periodic boundary conditions and we call them periodic dark solitons. Through exact solutions we show corresponding aspects between the states and the solitons in the weak coupling case: t...

We consider effects of a periodic modulation of the nonlinearity coefficient on fundamental and higher-order solitons in the one-dimensional NLS equation, which is an issue of direct interest to Bose-Einstein condensates in the context of the Feshbach-resonance control, and fiber-optic telecommunications as concerns periodic compensation of the nonlinearity. We find from simulations, and explain by means of a straightforward analysis, that the response of a fundamental solito...

The cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with repulsive nonlinearity and an elliptic function potential models a quasi-one-dimensional repulsive dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a standing light wave. New families of stationary solutions are presented. Some of these solutions have neither an analog in the linear Schr\"odinger equation nor in the integrable nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Their stability is examined using analytic and numerical methods. All t...

We study the stationary solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation that reduce, in the limit of vanishing non-linearity, to the eigenfunctions of the associated Schr\"odinger equation. By providing analytical and numerical support, we conjecture an existence condition for these solutions in terms of the ratio between their proper frequency (chemical potential) and the corresponding linear eigenvalue. We also give approximate expressions for the stationary solutions which beco...

We present basic results, known and new, on nontrivial solutions of periodic stationary nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. We also sketch an application to nonlinear optics and discuss some open problems.

We investigate the exact bright and dark solitary wave solutions of an effective one dimensional (1D) Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by assuming that the interaction energy is much less than the kinetic energy in the transverse direction. In particular, following the earlier works in the literature P\'erez-Garc\'ia et al. [Physica D 221 (2006) 31], Serkin et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 074102], G\"urses [arXiv:0704.2435] and Kundu [Phys. Rev. E 79 (2009) 015601], we point...