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In this paper we deal with a nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with chaotic, random, and nonperiodic cubic nonlinearity. Our goal is to study the soliton evolution, with the strength of the nonlinearity perturbed in the space and time…

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We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin

We note that the non-orthogonality of states and their coincidence at the degeneracy point are both admitted by nonlinear Hermitian systems and linear non-Hermitian systems. These striking characteristics motivate us to re-investigate the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-25 Yu-Hao Wang , Yan-Hong Qin , Jie Liu , Li-Chen Zhao

In this note, we announce a general result resolving the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability, or stability with respect to localized perturbations, of periodic traveling-wave solutions of the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-22 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

The focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is the simplest universal model describing the modulation instability (MI) of quasi monochromatic waves in weakly nonlinear media, and MI is considered the main physical mechanism for the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-03-11 F. Coppini , P. G. Grinevich , P. M. Santini

We study the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on a star graph $\mathcal{G}$. At the vertex an interaction occurs described by a boundary condition of delta type with strength $\alpha\in \mathbb{R}$. We investigate an orbital…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Jaime Angulo Pava , Nataliia Goloshchapova

In this paper, we study a nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (MMT model). We investigate the effect of the nonlocal operator appearing in the nonlinearity on the long-term behavior of solutions, and we identify the conditions under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Amin Esfahani , Gulcin M. Muslu

We justify the WKB analysis for generalized nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations (NLS), including the hyperbolic NLS and the Davey-Stewartson II system. Since the leading order system in this analysis is not hyperbolic, we work with analytic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Rémi Carles , Clément Gallo

We study a system of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with cubic interactions in one space dimension. The orbital stability and instability of semitrivial standing wave solutions are studied for both non-degenerate and degenerate cases.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-04 Shotaro Kawahara , Masahito Ohta

A study of general rogue waves in some integrable reverse time nonlocal nonlinear equations is presented. Specifically, the reverse time nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) and nonlocal Davey-Stewartson (DS) equations are investigated,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-12-19 Bo Yang , Yong Chen

The present contribution contains a quite extensive theory for the stability analysis of plane periodic waves of general Schr{\"o}dinger equations. On one hand, we put the one-dimensional theory, or in other words the stability theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Corentin Audiard , L Rodrigues

We study the fractional three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with exponential saturating nonlinearity. In the case of the L\'{e}vy index $\alpha=1.9$, this equation can be considered as a model equation to describe…

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We introduce a complete analytical and numerical study of the modulational instability process in a system governed by a canonical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation involving local, arbitrary nonlinear responses to the applied field. In…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-08 David Novoa , Daniele Tommasini , José A. Nóvoa-López

The effect of the modulation instability on the propagation of solitary waves along one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is revisited. A self-contained quasicontinuum approximation is developed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-08-21 E. Arevalo

In this work I study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem associated with the coupled Schr\"odinger equations {with quadratic nonlinearities}, which appears modeling problems in nonlinear optics. I obtain the local well-posedness for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Isnaldo Isaac

The modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting spatially incoherent Stokes waves is analyzed. Starting from a pair of nonlinear Schroedinger equations, we derive a coupled set of wave-kinetic equations by using the Wigner transform…

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

We consider an elliptic differential operator $A_\varepsilon = - \frac{d}{dx} g(x/\varepsilon) \frac{d}{dx} + \varepsilon^{-2} V(x/\varepsilon)$, $\varepsilon > 0$, with periodic coefficients acting in $L_2(\mathbb{R})$. For the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Mark Dorodnyi

We study the modulational stability of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) using a time-dependent variational approach. Within this framework, we derive ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for the time evolution of the amplitude…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

We study a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with logarithmic nonlinearity on a star graph $\mathcal{G}$. At the vertex an interaction occurs described by a boundary condition of delta type with strength $\alpha\in \mathbb{R}$. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Nataliia Goloshchapova