Discrete solitons in optical BEC lattices. Effects of n-body interactions

Abstract

In this poster we show some recent results concerning discrete solitons in strong optical lattices, which can be described by the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger equation. These results are related to a variation of this equation including saturable nonlinearity terms, a feature throughoutly studied in nonlinear optics. After presenting the derivation of the DNLS equation from the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the presence of a strong optical lattice, we study the existence of thresholds in the quadratic norm of discrete solitons in the cubic DNLS, cubic-quintic DNLS and photorefractive-DNLS. The second part of the poster is devoted to moving discrete solitons in the photorefractive DNLS equation. In the one hand, we study the existence of radiationless moving discrete solitons; on the other hand, we study the collisions of moving discrete solitons.