Title
Nonlinear Wave Packets in Deformed Honeycomb Lattices.
Abstract
The spectrum of a Schrodinger operator with a perfect honeycomb lattice potential has special points, called Dirac points, where the lowest two branches of the spectrum touch. Deformations can result in the merging and disappearance of the Dirac points, and the originally intersecting dispersion relation branches separate. Corresponding to these deformations, nonlinear envelope equations are derived and their dynamics are studied. In the region where Dirac points exist, a maximally balanced equation is derived which has limits to a nonlinear Schrodinger-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (NLSKP)-type equation and its dispersionless reduction. When the Dirac points disappear and a gap opens, a different maximally balanced equation is derived which has the NLSKP equation and a one-dimensional nonlocal evolution equation as limits. When the gap is sufficiently wide, a nonlinear Dirac equation with nonzero mass and a nonlinear Schrodinger focusing-defocusing system are found. The latter two equations admit nonlinear localized modes. Typical dynamical behaviors of the effective envelope equations are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1137/120887618
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
honeycomb lattice,long wave approximation,effective dynamics,nonlinear Schrodinger equation,Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation
Dirac algebra,Dispersionless equation,Dirac equation,Mathematical analysis,Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation,Two-body Dirac equations,Dirac sea,Classical mechanics,Nonlinear Schrödinger equation,Nonlinear Dirac equation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
73
6
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark J. Ablowitz142.22
Yi Zhu293.12