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Diverging probability density functions for flat-top solitary waves

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We investigate the statistics of flat-top solitary wave parameters in the presence of weak multiplicative dissipative disorder. We consider first propagation of solitary waves of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (CQNLSE) in the presence of disorder in the cubic nonlinear gain. We show by a perturbative analytic calculation and by Monte Carlo simulations that the probability density function (PDF) of the amplitude η\eta exhibits loglognormal divergence near the maximum possible amplitude ηm\eta_{m}, a behavior that is similar to the one observed earlier for disorder in the linear gain [A. Peleg et al., Phys. Rev. E {\bf 72}, 027203 (2005)]. We relate the loglognormal divergence of the amplitude PDF to the super-exponential approach of η\eta to ηm\eta_{m} in the corresponding deterministic model with linear/nonlinear gain. Furthermore, for solitary waves of the derivative CQNLSE with weak disorder in the linear gain both the amplitude and the group velocity β\beta become random. We therefore study analytically and by Monte Carlo simulations the PDF of the parameter pp, where p=η/(1εsβ/2)p=\eta/(1-\varepsilon_s\beta/2) and εs\varepsilon_s is the self-steepening coefficient. Our analytic calculations and numerical simulations show that the PDF of pp is loglognormally divergent near the maximum pp-value.

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@article{arxiv.0906.3001,
  title  = {Diverging probability density functions for flat-top solitary waves},
  author = {Avner Peleg and Yeojin Chung and Tomáš Dohnal and Quan M. Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3001},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. E