Peregrine Solitons of the Higher-Order, Inhomogeneous, Coupled, Discrete, and Nonlocal Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

Abstract

This study reviews the Peregrine solitons appearing under the framework of a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equations describing the diverse nonlinear systems. The historical perspectives include the various analytical techniques developed for constructing the Peregrine soliton solutions, followed by the derivation of the general breather solution of the fundamental nonlinear Schrödinger equation through Darboux transformation. Subsequently, we collect all forms of nonlinear Schrödinger equations, involving systematically the effects of higher-order nonlinearity, inhomogeneity, external potentials, coupling, discontinuity, nonlocality, higher dimensionality, and nonlinear saturation in which Peregrine soliton solutions have been reported.