Antisymmetry breaking of discrete dipole gap solitons induced by a phase-slip defect

Abstract

In this paper, we study the antisymmetry breaking of discrete dipole soliton induced by a phase-slip one-dimensional discrete lattice, which contains on-site self-repulsive nonlinearity. This system can be realized in waveguide arrays system in optics or Bose–Einstein condensate in optical lattice. Different from the symmetry breaking occurring in the ground-state, antisymmetry breaking occurs in the first excited state, which contains antisymmetry. For this system, stable antisymmetric dipole soliton and anti-asymmetric are found, the symmetry transition between them is supercritical type. It is found that, increasing the total norm of the soliton or decreasing the coupled strength of the defect waveguide can lead to the antisymmetry breaking. Such kind of symmetry breaking can lead to the change of the tendency of some characters of the soliton.