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Solitary waves in a negative index material with dispersive permittivity and permeability

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We present a solitary wave solution of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation for dispersive permittivity and permeability using a scaling transformation and coupled amplitude-phase formulation. The constraint conditions and the frequency regimes for the existence of solitary waves in a negative index material (NIM) have been worked out. It is shown that soliton shift in a NIM may be suppressed by a judicious choice of the TOD and self-steepening parameter.

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Sarma, A.K. Solitary waves in a negative index material with dispersive permittivity and permeability. Eur. Phys. J. D 62, 421–424 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2011-10288-0

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