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We study numerically a spreading of an initially localized wave packet in a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice with disorder. We demonstrate that above a certain critical strength of nonlinearity the Anderson…

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The propagation of the arbitrarily polarized pulse of the weak probe field through the resonant medium of Lambda-type three-level atoms with degenerate levels adiabatically driven by the coherent coupling field is considered. It is shown…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 V. A. Reshetov , I. V. Meleshko

We demonstrate that in pair plasma weakly nonlinear electromagnetic waves, $a_0 \leq 1$, experience Anderson self-localization. The beat between the driver and a back-scattered wave creates charge-neutral, large random density fluctuations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Maxim Lyutikov , Victor Gurarie

The space-time focusing of a (continuous) succession of localized X-shaped pulses is obtained by suitably integrating over their speed, i.e., over their axicon angle, thus generalizing a previous (discrete) approach. First, new Superluminal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zamboni Rached , Amr Shaarawi , Erasmo Recami

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

We study reaction-diffusion particle systems with several interaction mechanisms. As the number of particles tends to infinity, the system admits a mean-field limit describing the bulk behaviour. We focus on determining the propagation…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Matthieu Jonckheere , Seva Shneer

The propagation of radio emission in pulsar magnetospheres is discussed. We follow a kinematics model in order to derive dispersion relations for electromagnetic oscillations and transversal waves, propagating in a cold moving plasma. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ericsson D. Lopez

We consider the propagation of acoustic time-harmonic waves in a homogeneous media containing periodic lattices of spherical or cylindrical inclusions. It is assumed that the wavelength has the order of the periods of the lattice while the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Yuri A. Godin , Boris Vainberg

The time-optimal technique of spatial localization of the random pulsed-point source that has the uniform distribution density on search interval and indicating itself by generation of the instant impulses (delta functions) at random time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-07 Aleksander Reznik , Aleksander Soloview , Andrey Torgov

We follow the dynamics of nonlinear waves in two-dimensional disordered lattices with tunable nonlinearity. In the absence of nonlinear terms Anderson localization traps the packet in space. For the nonlinear case a destruction of Anderson…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-15 T. V. Laptyeva , J. D. Bodyfelt , S. Flach

In a recent experiment [X. Yu et al., arXiv:2602.07654], energy-resolved measurements of an atomic matter wave spreading in a speckle potential enabled the direct observation of the three-dimensional Anderson transition. In this work, we…

We theoretically study the propagation through a resonant absorbing medium of a time-dependent perturbation modulating the amplitude of a continuous wave (cw). Modeling the medium as a system of two-level atoms and linearizing the…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-13 Bruno Macke , Bernard Ségard

We construct pulse-type approximate solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic equations near diffractive points, allowing arbitrary (even infinite) order of grazing. We show that in low regularity spaces and the high frequency limit, such solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jian Wang , Mark Williams

We investigate ways of accurately simulating the propagation of energetic charged particles over small times where the standard Monte Carlo approximation to diffusive transport breaks down. We find that a small-angle scattering procedure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe , A. Meli , A. -C Donea

Biomedical applications requiring tissue diagnosis, activation, and treatment could be substantially leveraged by optical methods, owing to their unique feature set. However, their widespread application is severely limited by the strong…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Maxim Cherkashin , Carsten Brenner , Georg Schmitz , Martin Hofmann

A new method to find the propagation equation system governing the scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a nonlinear medium is proposed. The aim is to let the effects appear spontaneously, deleting as far as possible the phenomenological…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-08 Pierre Godard , Frederic Zolla , Andre Nicolet

Non-linear Compton scattering in ultra-short intense laser pulses is discussed with the focus on angular distributions of the emitted photon energy. This is an observable which is accessible easily experimentally. Asymmetries of the…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-30 D. Seipt , B. Kampfer

We study the propagation of 0.05-1 TW power, ultrafast laser pulses in a 10 meter long rubidium vapor cell. The central wavelength of the laser is resonant with the $D_2$ line of rubidium and the peak intensity in the $10^{12}-10^{14}…

We study the propagation of radio waves through a medium possessing density fluctuations that are elongated along the ambient magnetic field and described by an anisotropic Goldreich-Sridhar power spectrum. We derive general formulas for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. D. G. Chandran , D. C. Backer

A simple method for the production of ultrashort light pulses (USPs) with suppressed photon fluctuations is considered. The method is based on self-phase modulation (SPM) of an USP in a nonlinear medium (optical fibre) and subsequent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Popescu , A. S. Chirkin