Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2006-04-14
Phys. Rev. E 75, 016212 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
7 pages, 4 figures; submitted to PRE
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.016212
We investigate the ground state of a system of interacting particles in small nonlinear lattices with M > 2 sites, using as a prototypical example the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation that has been recently used extensively in the contexts of nonlinear optics of waveguide arrays, and Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices. We find that, in the presence of attractive interactions, the dynamical scenario relevant to the ground state and the lowest-energy modes of such few-site nonlinear lattices reveals a variety of nontrivial features that are absent in the large/infinite lattice limits: the single-pulse solution and the uniform solution are found to coexist in a finite range of the lattice intersite coupling where, depending on the latter, one of them represents the ground state; in addition, the single-pulse mode does not even exist beyond a critical parametric threshold. Finally, the onset of the ground state (modulational) instability appears to be intimately connected with a non-standard (``double transcritical'') type of bifurcation that, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported previously in other physical systems.
Buonsante Pierfrancesco
Kevrekidis Panayotis
Penna Vittorio
Vezzani Alberto
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