TY - BOOK AU - Carretero-González,Ricardo AU - Cuevas-Maraver,Jesús AU - Frantzeskakis,Dimitri AU - Karachalios,Nikos AU - Kevrekidis,Panayotis AU - Palmero-Acebedo,Faustino ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Localized Excitations in Nonlinear Complex Systems: Current State of the Art and Future Perspectives T2 - Nonlinear Systems and Complexity, SN - 9783319020570 AV - QC174.7-175.36 U1 - 621 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - Physics KW - Mathematical physics KW - Engineering mathematics KW - Engineering KW - Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity KW - Solid State Physics KW - Complexity KW - Complex Systems KW - Mathematical Methods in Physics KW - Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering N1 - Nonlinear Schrödinger Models: Continuum and Discrete Solitons and their Ghosts in PT-Symmetric Systems with Defocusing Nonlinearities -- Coding of Nonlinear States for NLS-Type Equations with Periodic Potential -- Nonreciprocal Wave Propagation Through Open, Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger dimers -- Breather Solutions of the discrete p-Schrödinger N2 - The study of nonlinear localized excitations is a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science, as well as engineering, due to their importance in understanding and predicting phenomena arising in nonlinear and complex systems, but also due to their potential for the development and design of novel applications. This volume is a compilation of chapters representing the current state-of-the-art on the field of localized excitations and their role in the dynamics of complex physical systems UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02057-0 ER -