Title :
Breaking of Dirac dynamics due to nonlinear interactions
Author :
BahatTreidel, Omri ; Peleg, Or ; Segev, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We study nonlinear dynamics of electromagnetic waves in honeycomb photonic lattices, and find that nonlinearity breaks the effective Dirac equation. Furthermore, we show that the nonlinearity cannot be described simply by the nonlinear Dirac equation.
Keywords :
Atom optics; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Lattices; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical propagation; Optical scattering; Photonic crystals;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
