Defect darksolitons in PT-symmetric optical lattices

YIXiangdong; Qingwen XIE; Zhihua LUO; SHIZhiwei; Xing ZHU; Huagang LI

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2015.06.014

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