Nonlinearity and Disorder: Theory and Applications

by Fatkhulla Abdullaev (Editor), Ole Bang (Editor), Mads Peter Sïrensen (Editor)

Overview

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2-6 October 2001

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402001918
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	01/31/2002
Series:	NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry , #45
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	445
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

Exponential Localization Versus Soliton Propagation.- Pulse Confinement in Optical Fibers with Random Dispersion.- Propagation of an Optical Pulse in a Fiber with Random Dispersion - management.- Spatial Solitons in Random Quadratic Media.- Correlation of the Amplitude and Phase Random Modulations in Nonlinear Medium.- Spatio-temporal Chaos in Time Evolution of BEC with Attractive Two-body Interactions.- Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Optical Trap.- Aspects of Discrete Breathers and New Directions.- Complexity at Mesoscale.- Resonant Mode Interactions in Nonlinear Lattices.- Discrete Solitons in Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays.- Quantization of Intrinsic Nonlinear Localized Modes in Solids.- Experiments with Discrete Breathers in Josephson Arrays.- Breather Compactification in Nonlinear Anharmonic Lattices with Nonlocal Dispersive Interactions.- Growth and Decay of Weakly Perturbed Discrete Breathers.- Standing Waves in ID Nonlinear Lattices.- Wannier-Stark Solitons in Waveguide Arrays with Linear Potential.- The Stimulated Raman Scattering System: a Numerical Study.- Chaotic Dynamics of Topological Defects in Parametrically Excited Waves.- Wavebreaking in Hydrodynamics of the Defocusing NLS Equation.- Propagation and Interaction of Extremely Short Electromagnetic Pulses in Non-Linear Media.- Nonlinear Impurity Modes in Homogeneous and Periodic Media.- Effects of Linear and Nonlinear Photo-elasticity in Super-lattices Near Interband Resonances.- Resonant Optics of Impurities in Photonic Crystals.- Bragg-grating Solitons in Dual-core Semi-linear Systems.- Transverse Patterns in Type-II Optical Parametric Oscillators.- Self-trapping and Localized Modes in 2-D Photonic Crystals.- Soliton Self-shaping Through Transverse Electrostrictive Modulation in a Brillouin FiberRing Laser.- Quantum Dynamics in Kerr Nonlinear Coupler via Phase-space Representation.- Exact Cluster Expansions for a One-dimensional—-function Bose Gas.- Nonlinear Optical Shocks and Missiles. Theory, Applications and Numerical Methods.- Nonlinear Analysis of Heart Rate Variability.- Phenomenon of “Quantized” Oscillation Excitation.- The Doppler Effect and Form of the Profile of Radiation Spectral Lines.- Dissipative soliton dynamics in strongly driven ferromagnets.- Nonlinear Eigenmodes in Quadratic Film Waveguides.- Accelerating Solitons and Photorefractivity.