Abstract
Existence of gap solitons in metamaterials, exhibiting a self-focusing Kerr nonlinearity, is theoretically predicted. A nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a dispersive nonlinear term is derived from Maxwell’s equations to study gap soliton stability.
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