%0 Journal Article %T Discrete Solitons and Breathers with Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates %A A. Trombettoni %A A. Smerzi %J Physics %D 2001 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2353 %X We study the dynamical phase diagram of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a periodic potential. The dynamics is governed by a discrete non-linear Schr\"odinger equation: intrinsically localized excitations, including discrete solitons and breathers, can be created even if the BEC's interatomic potential is repulsive. Furthermore, we analyze the Anderson-Kasevich experiment [Science 282, 1686 (1998)], pointing out that mean field effects lead to a coherent destruction of the interwell Bloch oscillations. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103368v1