Malomed B.A. (ed.) Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations

Springer, 2013. - 705 pp.
This volume collects a number of contributions on the general theme of spontaneous symmetry breaking in nonlinear systems, and related topics.
Current studies in these areas are going ahead at a full speed. Chapters included into the book present an overview on major recent achievements.
They cover a number of different physical settings, which are introduced when a nonlinearity is added to underlying symmetric configurations. The spontaneous symmetry breaking, alias self-trapping into asymmetric states, happens when the strength of the nonlinearity exceeds a certain critical value.
A related generic dynamical effect appears in the form of Josephson oscillations between mutually symmetric states. Theoretical studies of these phenomena, as well as related experimental findings, are extensively discussed in the book - chiefly, in the context of Bose-Einstein condensates and nonlinear optics.Nonlinear Dynamics of Bloch Wave Packets in Honeycomb Lattices (by Mark J. Ablowitz and Yi Zhu).
Light Self-Localization and Power-Dependent Steering in Anisotropic Dielectrics: Spatial Solitons in Uniaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals (by Alessandro Alberucci and Gaetano Assanto).
Frequency and Phase Locking of Laser Cavity Solitons (by T. Ackemann, Y. Noblet, P. V. Paulau, C. McIntyre, P. Colet, W. J. Firth and G.-L. Oppo).
Light-Induced Breaking of Symmetry in Photonic Crystal Waveguides with Nonlinear Defects as a Key for All-Optical Switching Circuits (by Evgeny Bulgakov, Almas Sadreev and Konstantin N. Pichugin).
Spatial Solitons in Parity-Time-Symmetric Photonic Lattices: Recent Theoretical Results (by Ying-Ji He and Boris A. Malomed).
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Pinned Modes in Nonlinear Gratings with an Embedded Pair of Defects (by I. V. Kabakova, I. Uddin, J. Jeyaratnam, C. M. de Sterke and B. A. Malomed).
Guided Modes and Symmetry Breaking Supported by Localized Gain (by Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, Victor A. Vysloukh and Dmitry A. Zezyulin).
Analytical Solitary Wave Solutions of a Nonlinear Kronig-Penney Model for Photonic Structures Consisting of Linear and Nonlinear Layers (by Yannis Kominis and Kyriakos Hizanidis).
Trapping Polarization of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: An Ideal Raman Polarizer (by Victor V. Kozlov, Javier Nuño, Juan Diego Ania-Castañón and Stefan Wabnitz).
Studies of Existence and Stability of Circularly Polarized Few-Cycle Solitons Beyond the Slowly-Varying Envelope Approximation (by Hervé Leblond, Dumitru Mihalache and Houria Triki).
Defect Modes, Fano Resonances and Embedded States in Magnetic Metamaterials (by M. I. Molina).
Pattern Formation Under a Localized Gain (by Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy).
Spontaneous Formation and Switching of Optical Patterns in Semiconductor Microcavities (by Jacob Scheuer and Meir Orenstein).
Sub-Wavelength Plasmonic Solitons in 1D and 2D Arrays of Coupled Metallic Nanowires (by F. Ye, D. Mihalache and N. C. Panoiu).
From Coherent Modes to Turbulence and Granulation of Trapped Gases (by V. S. Bagnato and V. I. Yukalov).
Bright Solitary Matter Waves: Formation, Stability and Interactions (by T. P. Billam, A. L. Marchant, S. L. Cornish, S. A. Gardiner and N. G. Parker).
Temporal Quantum Fluctuations in the Fringe-Visibility of Atom Interferometers with Interacting Bose–Einstein Condensate (by Doron Cohen and Amichay Vardi).
Temperature Effects on the Quantum Coherence of Bosonic Josephson Junctions (by B. Juliá-Díaz, J. Martorell and A. Polls).
Multiple Fluxon Analogues and Dark Solitons in Linearly Coupled Bose–Einstein Condensates (by M. I. Qadir, H. Susanto and P. C. Matthews).
Symmetry-Breaking Effects for Polariton Condensates in Double-Well Potentials (by A. S. Rodrigues, P. G. Kevrekidis, J. Cuevas, R. Carretero-González and D. J. Frantzeskakis).
Classical Dynamics of a Two-species Bose–Einstein Condensate in the Presence of Nonlinear Maser Processes (by B. M. Rodríguez-Lara and R.-K. Lee).
Existence, Stability and Nonlinear Dynamics of Vortices and Vortex Clusters in Anisotropic Bose–Einstein Condensates (by J. Stockhofe, P. G. Kevrekidis and P. Schmelcher).
Josephson Tunneling of Excited States in a Double-Well Potential (by H. Susanto and J. Cuevas).
Solitons in a Parametrically Driven Damped Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (by M. Syafwan, H. Susanto and S. M. Cox).
Conditions and Stability Analysis for Saddle-Node Bifurcations of Solitary Waves in Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations (by Jianke Yang).
Escape Time of Josephson Junctions for Signal Detection (by P. Addesso, G. Filatrella and V. Pierro).
Symmetry Breaking Criteria in Electrostatically Loaded Bistable Curved/Prebuckled Micro Beams (by Lior Medina, Rivka Gilat and Slava Krylov).
Erratum to: Escape Time of Josephson Junctions for Signal Detection (by P. Addesso, G. Filatrella and V. Pierro).