Prof. Dr. Alain Moise Dikande

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsStatistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics,Theoretical Physics
KeywordsNonlinear dynamics of Earthquakes, Nonlinear processes in biophysics, nonlinear waves and solitons in the nervous system, quantum optics and atom optics, nonlinear charge transfers in DNA
Honours and awards

2018: Senior Associateship award (6 years term), the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste

2018: Vice-Chancellor prize for most productive researcher in the Faculty of Science, University of Buea, over the last 5 years (June 2018)

Current contact address

CountryCameroon
CityBuea
InstitutionUniversity of Buea
InstituteFaculty of Science/Department of Physics
Homepagehttp://laramans.blogspot.com

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Thomas NattermannInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Prof. Dr. Sergej FlachMax-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Prof. Dr. Roderich MoessnerDepartment Condensed Matter, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Prof. Dr. Holger KantzForschungsgruppe Nichtlineare Dynamik und Zeitreihenanalyse, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2011

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2024Ndifon, I Ngek and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Dynamics of femtosecond lasers and induced plasma in non-Kerr nonlinear transparent materials: Competing effects of electron--hole radiative recombinations and single-electron diffusions. In: AIP Advances, 14, 2024, 055320
2023Ngek, I Ndifon and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Modulational instability and nonlinear dynamics of femtosecond lasers in transparent materials with non-Kerr nonlinearities. In: AIP Advances, 13, 2023, 075216
2023Dikand{\'e}, Alain M.: Nonlinear dynamics of Kerr optical microresonators with spatially fluctuating loss. In: Modern Physics Letters B, 37, 2023, 2350061
2023Dikande, Alain M.: Soliton trains induced by femtosecond laser filamentations in transparent materials with saturable nonlinearity. In: Journal of Applied Physics, 133, 2023, 133102
2023Ngek, I Ndifon and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Soliton-comb generation in ring-shaped optical Kerr microresonators under thermal effects. In: Results in Optics, 10, 2023, 100339
2023Dikand{\'e}, Alain M.: Using dark solitons from a Bose--Einstein condensate necklace to imprint soliton states in the spectral memory of a free boson gas. In: New Journal of Physics, 25, 2023, 103017
2022Yunga, Nyanga Bernard and Dikande, Alain M.: Domain Structure in Ferroelectric Thin Films. In: Asian Journal of Research and Reviews in Physics, 6, 2022, 41--49
2022Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: On a Model for Nerve Impulse Generation Mediated by Electromechanical Processes. In: Brazilian Journal of Physics, 52, 2022, 41
2022Chenui, E Aban and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Photosoliton modes induced by cross--phase modulation in optical media conveying bright-dark vector solitons. In: Optics Express, 30, 2022, 10999--11013
2022Nzoupe, F Naha and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Tchouobiap, SE Mkam: Quantum-tunneling transitions and exact statistical mechanics of bistable systems with parametrized Dikand{\'e}--Kofan{\'e} double-well potentials. In: The European Physical Journal B, 95, 2022, 8
2022Dikand{\'e}, Alain Möise: ROUTE TO CHAOS IN DISCRETE TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAPS WITH HYPERBOLIC DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIALS. In: Acta Physica Polonica B, 53, 2022, A1
2022Nkongho, A Achere and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Mbobda, C Raoul Fotso: Solitary-wave dynamics in an R-2LC nonlinear transmission line with voltage bias. In: Results in Physics (Elsevier), 35, 2022, 105303
2022Nkongho, A Achere and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Mbobda, C Raoul Fotso: Solitary-wave dynamics in an R2LC nonlinear transmission line with voltage bias. In: Results in Physics, 35, 2022, 105303
2022Cho, B Azah Bei and Ngek, I Ndifon and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Soliton crystals in optical Kerr microresonators in the presence of thermo-optic effects. In: Journal of Optics, 24, 2022, 115501
2021Mbobda, Christophe Raoul Fotso and Dikand{\'e}, Alain Moise: A dual-switch cubic SEPIC converter with extra high voltage gain. In: International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 12, 2021, 199
2021Akeweje, Emmanuel O and Bader, G and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Kameni Nteutse, P: Femtosecond laser inscriptions in Kerr nonlinear transparent media: dynamics in the presence of K-photon absorptions, radiative recombinations and electron diffusions. In: Journal of Modern Optics, 68, 2021, 1211--1220
2021Nzoupe, F Naha and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Tchawoua, C: Kink--antikink scattering-induced breathing bound states and oscillons in a parametrized $\phi$ 4 model. In: Modern Physics Letters A, 36, 2021, 2150015
2021Nteutse, P Kameni and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Zekeng, S: Laser dynamics in nonlinear transparent media with electron plasma generation: effects of electron--hole radiative recombinations. In: Journal of Optics, 23, 2021, 035402
2021Issokolo, RJ and Tchouobiap, SE and Nzoupe, F Naha and Dikand{\'e}, AM: Modulational instability in thin liquid film flowing down an inclined uniformly heated plate. In: AIP Advances, 11, 2021, 065017
2021Dikande, Alain M: On a nonlinear electromechanical model of nerve. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10400, 2021,
2021Nji Nde Aboringong, E and Ndifon Ngek, I and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Periodic exciton--polariton solitons in semiconductor nanowires. In: Modern Physics Letters B, 35, 2021, 2150307
2021Naha Nzoupe, Fernand and Dikand{\'e}, Alain Mo{\'\i}se and Tchawoua, Clement: Phase transition in quantum tunneling and exact statistical mechanics for a model of parameterized double-well potential. In: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 44, 2021, 12221--12235
2021Dikande, Alain M: Route to chaos in two-dimensional discrete parametric maps with bistable potentials. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.07727, 2021,
2021Chenui, Eugene Aban and Dikand{\'e}, Alain Mo{\"\i}se: Soliton-mode proliferation induced by cross-phase modulation of harmonic waves by a dark-soliton crystal in optical media. In: Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 63, 2021, 2681--2688
2021Aban, E Chenui and Dikande, Alain M: Soliton-mode proliferation induced by cross-phase modulation of harmonic waves by a dark-soliton crystal in optical media. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10420, 2021,
2021Nzoupe, F Naha and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Stochastic resonance in periodically driven bistable systems subjected to anomalous diffusion. In: SN Applied Sciences, 3, 2021, 428
2021Naha Nzoupe, F and Dikande, Alain M: Stochastic resonance in periodically driven bistable systems subjected to anomalous diffusion. In: arXiv e-prints, 2021, arXiv--2103
2021Dikande, Alain Moise and Aban, Eugene Chenui and Sunda-Meya, Anderson: Thermal lensing-induced soliton molecules in $\beta$-phase gallium oxide. In: Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 63, 2021, 3100--3107
2020Fandio Jubgang, D{\'e}fi Jr and Dikande, Alain M and Sunda-Meya, A: Continuous-wave stability and multipulse structures in a universal complex Ginzburg--Landau model for passively mode-locked lasers with a saturable absorber. In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 37, 2020, A175--A183
2020Ngomegni, FG Mbieda and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Essimbi, BZ: Dynamics and stability of cw and pulse lasers in Kerr optical media with K-photon absorption. In: Physica Scripta, 95, 2020, 025502
2020Leke, P. Achankeng and dikande, Alain M.: Dynamics of passively mode-locked lasers with saturable absorber and saturable nonlinearity. In: Applied Physics B, 126, 2020, 157
2020Nji Nde Aboringong, E and Ngek Ndifon, I and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Exciton-polariton solitons in a semiconductor microwire of finite size. In: arXiv e-prints, 2020, arXiv--2012
2020Aboringong, E and Ndifon, I Ngek and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Exciton-polariton solitons in a semiconductor microwire of finite size. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02477, 2020,
2020Naha Nzoupe, F and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Tchawoua, C: Kink--antikink scattering-induced breathing bound states and oscillons in a parametrized $$\backslash$phi\^{4}$ model. In: arXiv e-prints, 2020, arXiv--2012
2020Nkongho Achere Akem, Alain M. Dikand{\'e}, B. Z. Essimbi: Leapfrogging of electrical solitons in coupled nonlinear transmission lines: effect of an imperfect varactor. In: SN Applied Sciences, 2, 2020, 21
2020Alexander Mengnjo, Alain M. Dikand{\'e}, Gideon A. Ngwa: Model of the Nerve Impulse with Account of Mechanosensory Processes: Stationary Solutions. In: Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 8, 2020, 2091--2102
2020Forbes, Andrew and Cherif, Rim and Dudley, Angela and Dikande, Alain M: Optics in Africa: introduction. In: JOSA B, 37, 2020, OIA1--OIA3
2020Sa’id, Rabia Salihu and Fuwape, Ibiyinka and Dikand{\'e}, Alain Moise and Mimouni, Jamal and Hasford, Francis and Haynes, Delia and Gledhill, Igle and Amolo, George and Akin-Ojo, Omololu and Eassa, Nashwa: Physics in Africa. In: Nature Reviews Physics, 2, 2020, 520--523
2019Moubissi, A-B and Ekogo, Th-B and Sanvany, SD Bidouba and Membetsi, ZH Moussambi and Dikande, AM: Averaged-dispersion management for ultrashort soliton molecule propagation in lossy fibre systems. In: Optics Communications, 431, 2019, 187--195
2019Kameni Nteutse, P and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Zekeng, S: Competing effects of Kerr nonlinearity and K-photon absorptions on continuous-wave laser inscriptions. In: Optical and Quantum Electronics, 51, 2019, 313
2019Akem, Nkongho Achere and Akong, Ngate L. and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M. and Essimbi, B. Z.: Leapfrogging dynamics of interacting solitons in weakly coupled nonlinear transmission lines. In: SN Applied Sciences, 1, 2019, 552
2019Mesumbe, E Ntongwe and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Modulational instability and soliton trains in a model for two-mode fiber ring lasers. In: Optical and Quantum Electronics, 51, 2019, 1--16
2019Nzoupe, F Naha and Dikande, Alain M and Tchawoua, C: Phase transitions in quantum tunneling and quasi-exact solvability for a family of parametric double-well potentials. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06918, 2019,
2019Aboringong, E Nji Nde and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Soliton lattices originating from excitons interacting with high-intensity fields in finite molecular crystals. In: The European Physical Journal Plus, 134, 2019, 1--11
2019R. D. Dikand{\'e} Bitha, Alain M. Dikand{\'e}: Soliton-comb structures in ring-shaped optical microresonators: generation, reconstruction and stability. In: arXiv:1905.01854, 2019, https--arxiv
2019Dikand{\'e} Bitha, Rodrigues D and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Soliton-comb structures in ring-shaped optical microresonators: generation, reconstruction and stability. In: The European Physical Journal D, 73, 2019, 1--12
2018Fongang Achu, G and Moukam Kakmeni, FM and Dikande, AM: Breathing pulses in the damped-soliton model for nerves. In: Physical Review E, 97, 2018, 012211
2018Dikand{\'e} Bitha, Rodrigues D and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Elliptic-type soliton combs in optical ring microresonators. In: Physical Review A, 97, 2018, 033813
2018Nji Nde Aboringong, E and M. Dikand{\'e}, Alain: Exciton dynamics in amide-I $\alpha$ $\alpha$-helix protein chains with long-range intermolecular interactions. In: The European Physical Journal E, 41, 2018, 1--6
2018Aboringong, E Nji Nde and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Exciton dynamics in amide-I [Formula: see text]-helix protein chains with long-range intermolecular interactions. In: The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 41, 2018, 35
2018Aboringong, E. Nji Nde and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M.: Exciton-polariton soliton wavetrains in molecular crystals with dispersive long-range intermolecular interactions. In: The European Physical Journal Plus, 133, 2018, 263
2018Ayuketang Arreyndip, Nkongho and Moise Dikande, Alain and Joseph, Ebobenow: Nonlinear multi-frequency dynamics of wind turbine components with a single-mesh helical gear train. In: Mathematical and Computational Applications, 23, 2018, 12
2018Remi J. Noumana Issokolo, Alain M. Dikande: Nonlinear periodic wavetrains in thin liquid films falling on a uniformly heated horizontal plate. In: arXiv:1804.07359, 2018,
2018Issokolo, Remi J Noumana and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Nonlinear periodic wavetrains in thin liquid films falling on a uniformly heated horizontal plate. In: Physics of Fluids, 30, 2018, 054102
2018Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Nyanga, Bernard Y and Tchouobiap, SE Mkam: Solitons in discrete linear chains of chiral smectic liquid crystals with competing interactions. In: Modern Physics Letters B, 32, 2018, 1850392
2017Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Titafan, J Voma and Essimbi, BZ: Continuous-wave to pulse regimes for a family of passively mode-locked lasers with saturable nonlinearity. In: Journal of Optics, 19, 2017, 105504
2017Dikande, Alain M and Leke, P Achankeng: Effect of saturable nonlinearity on cw stability in passively mode-locked lasers with fast saturable absorbers. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09028, 2017,
2017Mbieda Petmegni, DS and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Periodic soliton trains in nonlinear magneto-optical media. In: Journal of Modern Optics, 64, 2017, 1192--1198
2017Petmegni, Duplex S Mbieda and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Essimbi, BZ: Raman self-induced-transparency soliton trains in hollow-core photonic crystals. In: Applied Physics B, 123, 2017, 1--6
2017Tchenkoue, ML Djouom and Mbangheku, D Welakuh and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Soliton Trains Induced by Adaptive Shaping with Periodic Traps in Four-Level Ultracold Atom Systems. In: Communications in Theoretical Physics, 67, 2017, 667
2017Davis D.M. Welakuh, Alain M. Dikand{\'e}: Storage and retrieval of time-entangled soliton trains in a three-level atom system coupled to an optical cavity. In: Optics Communications, 403, 2017, 27--33
2017Bitha, RD and Petmegni, DS and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Trapping and reshaping of low-intensity radiations by soliton trains in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06350, 2017,
2017Dikande Bitha, RD and Mbieda Petmegni, DS and Dikande, Alain M: Trapping and reshaping of low-intensity radiations by soliton trains in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers. In: arXiv e-prints, 2017, arXiv--1712
2016Ngek, Isaiah Ndifon and Dikand{\'e}, Alain Mo{\"\i}se and Moubissi, Alain Brice: Matter-Wave Fields for Double-Slit Atom Interferometry: Variational Versus Exact Solitons. In: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 85, 2016, 124002
2016Fandio Jubgang, D{\'e}fi Jr and Dikande, Alain M: Pulse train uniformity and nonlinear dynamics of soliton crystals in mode-locked fiber ring lasers. In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 34, 2016, 66--75
2015Fandio Jubgang, D{\'e}fi Jr and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Sunda-Meya, A: Elliptic solitons in optical fiber media. In: Physical Review A, 92, 2015, 053850
2014Tchouobiap, SE Mkam and Dikande, AM and Mashiyama, H: Ferroelectric phase transition and soft-mode behavior in BaxSr1- xTiO3: a refined treatment of a quasi-harmonic model. In: Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 22, 2014, 065001
2013Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Adaptive beam reshaping in Kerr optical media with a thermally induced nonlocality. In: Physica Scripta, 87, 2013, 035401
2013Hubert, Kom Charles and Carlos, Konlack Talla Belmien and Moise, Dikande Alain: Modeling and Simulation of the Impact of Mobile Phones Waves on the Human Brain. In: The African Review of Physics, 7, 2013,
2013Mo{\"\i}se Dikand{\'e}, Alain and Bourbonnais, Claude: Nonadiabatic Fluctuations and the Charge-Density-Wave Transition in One-Dimensional Electron--Phonon Systems: A Dynamic Self-Consistent Theory. In: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 82, 2013, 024003
2011Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Induced soliton ejection from a continuous-wave source waveguided by an optical pulse soliton train. In: Journal of Optics, 13, 2011, 035203
2011Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Thermal lensing-induced bifocusing of spatial solitons in Kerr-type optical media. In: Europhysics Letters, 94, 2011, 44004
2010Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Njumbe, E Epie: A class of conservative Hamiltonians with exactly integrable discrete two-dimensional parametric maps. In: Physica Scripta, 81, 2010, 055002
2010Dikande, Alain Moise and Ngek, Isaiah Ndifon and Ebobenow, Joseph: DYNAMICS OF BISOLITONIC MATTER WAVES IN A BOSE--EINSTEIN CONDENSATE SUBJECTED TO AN ATOMIC BEAM SPLITTER AND GRAVITY. In: Modern Physics Letters B, 24, 2010, 2911--2920
2010Dikande, Alain M: Fundamental modes of a trapped probe photon in optical fibers conveying periodic pulse trains. In: Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 81, 2010, 013821
2009Mo{\"\i}se Dikand{\'e}, Alain: Charge-density-wave instability in the Holstein model with quartic anharmonic phonons. In: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 78, 2009, 094007
2009Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Bartholomew, Ga-Akeku: Localized short impulses in a nerve model with self-excitable membrane. In: Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 80, 2009, 041904
2008Dikande Alain M.: Bright-matter solitons in a uniformly feeded Bose--Einstein condensate with expulsive harmonic potential. In: Journal of mathematical physics, 49, 2008, 073520
2008Njumbe, E Epie and Dikand{\'e}, Alain M and Kofan{\'e}, TC: Integrable discrete static Hamiltonian with a parametric double-well potential. In: Physics Letters A, 372, 2008, 6890--6895
2008Mborong, VB and Dikand{\'e}, AM: Polarons in one-dimensional molecular chains with intermolecular and intramolecular vibrations. In: International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 108, 2008, 189--197
2007Dikand{\'e}, Alain M: Effects of interatomic interaction range on the charge-density-wave and spin--Peierls instabilities. In: Physics Letters A, 369, 2007, 146--150
2007Dikand{\'e}, AM: Polarons in quantum chains with XY exchange and Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction. In: The European Physical Journal B, 55, 2007, 397--402
2004Dikand{\'e}, AM: Lattice vibrations of armchair carbon nanotubes: phonons, soliton deformations and lattice discreteness effects. In: The European Physical Journal B-Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 42, 2004, 247--253