Y o n a t a n S i v a n

School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University

PhD student. Advisors: Prof. Gadi Fibich, Prof. Shimson Bar-Ad

Office:	Schreiber 25
Phone:	+972 3 640 6210
Fax:	+972 3 640 6948
E-mail:	yonatans@post.tau.ac.il

S u m m a r y o f R e s e a r c h

P u b l i c a t i o n s

Solitons in inhomogeneous media

• Y. Sivan, G. Fibich, B. Ilan

Drift instability and tunneling of lattice solitons
Phys. Rev. E 77: 045601(R), 2008

• Y. Sivan, G. Fibich, N.K. Efremidis, S. Bar-Ad

Analytic theory of narrow lattice solitons
Nonlinearity 21: 509-536, 2008

• S.  Le-Coz, R. Fukuizumi, G. Fibich, B. Ksherim, Y. Sivan

Instability of bound states of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a dirac potential
Physica D 237: 1103 (2008)

• Y. Sivan, G. Fibich, and M.I. Weinstein
  Waves in nonlinear lattices: Ultrashort optical pulses and Bose-Einstein condensates
  Physical Review Letters 97: 193902, 2006

• G. Fibich,  Y. Sivan, and M.I. Weinstein
  Bound states of nonlinear Schrodinger equations with a periodic nonlinear microstructure
  Physica D 217: 31–57, 2006

Atmospheric propagation

• S. Eisenmann, E. Louzon, Y. Katzir, T. Palchan, A. Zigler, Y. Sivan, and G. Fibich

Control of the filamentation distance and pattern in long-range atmospheric propagation
          Optics Express 15: 2779-2784, 2007

• G. Fibich, Y. Sivan, Y. Ehrlich, E. Louzon, M. Fraenkel, S. Eisenmann, Y. Katzir, and A. Zigler

Control of the collapse distance in atmospheric propagation
          Optics Express 14: 4946-4957, 2006

• S. Eisenmann, A. Zigler, Y. Sivan, G. Fibich

Extension of the collapse distance in atmospheric propagation
Laser Physics, to appear.

Other

• Y. Linzon, Y. Sivan, B. Malomed, M. Zaezjev, R. Morandotti and S. Bar-Ad

Interaction-induced localization of anomalously diffracting nonlinear waves
          Physical Review Letters 97: 193901, 2006