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The existence of various solitary wave solutions to the (nonintegrable) discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation is demonstrated numerically.
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Feddersen, H. (1991). Solitary wave solutions to the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation. In: Remoissenet, M., Peyrand, M. (eds) Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 393. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54890-4_167
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