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We introduce an inhomogeneously-nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattice, featuring a defocusing segment, a focusing segment and a transitional interface between the two. We illustrate that such inhomogeneous settings present vastly different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Debra L. Machacek , Elizabeth A. Foreman , Q. E. Hoq , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for an inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrodinger equation with exponential growth nonlinearity and harmonic potential in two space dimensions. We prove global well-posedness, existence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 T. Saanouni

The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) in one dimension is considered in the presence of an intensity-dependent dispersion term. We study bright solitary waves with smooth profiles which extend from the limit where the dependence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-22 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , R. M. Ross

We study the instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. Under a general assumption on nonlinearity, we prove that linear instability implies orbital instability in any dimension. For that purpose, we establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Vladimir Georgiev , Masahito Ohta

We study collective phenomena of self-propagating particles using the nonlinear Kramers equation. A solitary wave state appears from an instability of the spatially uniform ordered state with nonzero average velocity. Two solitary waves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Kazuya Ishibashi

We investigate the properties of standing waves to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential on the half-line. We first establish the existence of standing waves. Then, by a variational characterization of the ground…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Elek Csobo

Motivated by the study of matter waves in Bose-Einstein condensates and coupled nonlinear optical systems, we study a system of two coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations with inhomogeneous parameters, including a linear coupling. For that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Juan Belmonte Beitia , Victor M. Perez Garcia , Pedro J. Torres

We determine conditions under which a generic gauge invariant nonautonomous and inhomogeneous nonlinear partial differential equation in the two-dimensional space-time continuum can be transform into standard autonomous forms. In addition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 Alex Mahalov , Sergei K. Suslov

We investigate the asymptotic stability of standing waves for a model of Schr\"odinger equation with spatially concentrated nonlinearity in space dimension three. The nonlinearity studied is a power nonlinearity concentrated at the point…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Riccardo Adami , Diego Noja , Cecilia Ortoleva

We study static nonlinear waves in networks described by a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with point-like nonlinearities on metric graphs. Explicit solutions fulfilling vertex boundary conditions are obtained. Spontaneous symmetry breaking…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-31 K. K. Sabirov , J. R. Yusupov , H. Susanto , D. U. Matrasulov

In this paper, we are concerned with solutions to the following nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with combined inhomogeneous nonlinearities, $$ -\Delta u + \lambda u= \mu |x|^{-b}|u|^{q-2} u + |x|^{-b}|u|^{p-2} u \quad \mbox{in} \,\, \R^N,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Tianxiang Gou

We study numerically the nonintegrable dynamics of coherent, solitonic, nonlinear waves, in a spatially nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equation relevant to realistic modelling of optical systems: the Schrodinger-Helmholtz equation. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-15 Clement Colleaux , Jonathan Skipp , Sergey Nazarenko , Jason Laurie

The nonlinear Schroedinger model is a prototypical dispersive wave equation that features finite time blowup, either for supercritical exponents (for fixed dimension) or for supercritical dimensions (for fixed nonlinearity exponent). Upon…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-20 S. J. Chapman , M. E. Kavousanakis , E. G. Charalampidis , I. G. Kevrekidis , P. G. Kevrekidis

A large class of multidimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations admit localized nonradial standing wave solutions that carry nonzero intrinsic angular momentum. Here we provide evidence that certain of these spinning excitations are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Pego , Henry A. Warchall

We consider a class of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in two space dimensions with an attractive potential. The nonlinearity is local but rather general encompassing for the first time both subcritical and supercritical (in $L^2$)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-27 E. Kirr , A. Zarnescu

We consider asymmetric (nonreciprocal) wave transmission through a layered nonlinear, non mirror-symmetric system described by the one-dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with spatially varying coefficients embedded in an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Lepri , Giulio Casati

Some focusing coupled Schrodinger equations are investigated. First, existence of ground state is obtained. Second, global and non global existence of solutions are discussed via potential-well method. Finally, strong instability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Tarek Saanouni

The Alber equation is a moment equation for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, formally used in ocean engineering to investigate the stability of stationary and homogeneous sea states in terms of their power spectra. In this work we…

We consider the modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water, which are described by a pair of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations. We derive a nonlinear dispersion relation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , I. Kourakis , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo

The stability properties and perturbation-induced dynamics of the full set of stationary states of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation are investigated numerically in two physical contexts: periodic solutions on a ring and confinement by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Lincoln D. Carr , J. Nathan Kutz , William P. Reinhardt