title: Stable periodic density waves in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical lattices.
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. A vast 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.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Post Office Box 224, 18000 Niš, Serbia.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maluckov
authors.forename: Goran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gligorić
authors.forename: Ljupčo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hadžievski
authors.forename: Boris A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Malomed
authors.forename: Tilman
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pfau