@article{
author = "Maluckov, Aleksandra and Gligorić, Goran and Hadžievski, Ljupčo and Malomed, Boris A. and Pfau, Tilman",
year = "2012",
abstract = "Density-wave patterns in discrete media with local interactions are known to be unstable. We demonstrate that stable double-and triple-period patterns (DPPs and TPPs), with respect to the period of the underlying lattice, exist in media with nonlocal nonlinearity. This is shown in detail for dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, loaded into a deep one-dimensional optical lattice. The DPP and TPP emerge via phase transitions of the second and first kind, respectively. The emerging patterns may be stable if the dipole-dipole interactions are repulsive and sufficiently strong, in comparison with the local repulsive nonlinearity. Within the set of the considered states, the TPPs realize a minimum of the free energy. Avast stability region for the TPPs is found in the parameter space, while the DPP stability region is relatively narrow. The same mechanism may create stable density-wave patterns in other physical media featuring nonlocal interactions.",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
title = "Stable Periodic Density Waves in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates Trapped in Optical Lattices",
volume = "108",
number = "14",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.140402"
}