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The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

In many plasma systems, introducing a small background shear flow is enough to stabilize the system linearly. The nonlinear dynamics are much less sensitive to sheared flows than the average linear growthrates, and very small amplitude…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Chris C. T. Pringle , Ben F. McMillan , Bogdan Teaca

We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yeontaek Choi , Young-Sam Kwon , Sanggyu Jo , Sergey Nazarenko

The understanding of fluid turbulence has considerably progressed in recent years. The application of the methods of statistical mechanics to the description of the motion of fluid particles, i.e. to the Lagrangian dynamics, has led to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Falkovich , K. Gawedzki , M. Vergassola

We study the evolution of nonlinear surface gravity water-wave packets developing from modulational instability over an uneven bottom. A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with coefficients varying in space along propagation is used as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-04 Andrea Armaroli , Alexis Gomel , Amin Chabchoub , Maura Brunetti , Jérôme Kasparian

In this topical review we explore the dynamics of nonlinear lattices with a particular focus to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou type models that arise in the study of elastic media and, more specifically, granular crystals. We first revisit the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-29 Christopher Chong , P. G. Kevrekidis

The decays of the Langmuir waves in dense plasmas are computed using the dielectric function theory widely used in the solid state physics. Four cases are considered: a classical plasma, a Maxwellian plasma, a degenerate quantum plasma, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 S. Son , S. Ku , Sung Joon Moon

Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

We investigate the linear and nonlinear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability in a collisionless plasma via two-dimensional (2D2V) Vlasov-Poisson numerical simulations. We initialize the system in a stable state and gradually drive it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Zhuo Liu , Ryan White , Lucio M. Milanese , Nuno F. Loureiro

We discuss the two-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle that is confined to a harmonic trap and driven by a shear flow. The surrounding medium induces memory effects modelled by a linear, typically nonreciprocal coupling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Lea Fernandez , Siegfried Hess , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The nonlinear frequency shift is derived in a transparent asymptotic form for intense Langmuir waves in general collisionless plasma. The formula describes both fluid and kinetic effects simultaneously. The fluid nonlinearity is expressed,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Chang Liu , Ilya Y. Dodin

We analyse the development of instability in the framework of nonlinear electrodynamics based on the Maxwell's equations without approach of slowly varying amplitudes and phases. The action is chosen from the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian,…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Mikhail B. Belonenko , Natalia N. Konobeeva

We propose a way to accelerate adiabatic dynamics of wave functions in quantum mechanics to obtain a final adiabatic state except for the spatially uniform phase in any desired short time. We develop the previous theory of fast-forward…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shumpei Masuda , Katsuhiro Nakamura

A nonlinear Schrodinger equation arising from light propagation down an inhomogeneous medium is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the non-linear term in the equation. In particular, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Marangell , C. K. R. T. Jones , H. Susanto

We consider an overdamped particle with a general physical mechanism that creates noisy active movement (e.g., a run-and-tumble particle or active Brownian particle etc.), that is confined by an external potential. Focusing on the limit in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Naftali R. Smith

We consider a model of a particle trapped in a harmonic optical trap but with the addition of a non-conservative radiation induced force. This model is known to correctly describe experimentally observed trapped particle statistics for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-14 Matthieu Mangeat , Yacine Amarouchene , Yann Louyer , Thomas Guérin , David S. Dean

The active Brownian particle (ABP) model describes a swimmer, synthetic or living, whose direction of swimming is a Brownian motion. The swimming is due to a propulsion force, and the fluctuations are typically thermal in origin. We present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-18 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Jiajia Guo

Planar travelling waves on $\mathbb R^d,$ with $ d\geq 2,$ are shown to persist in systems of reaction-diffusion equations with multiplicative noise on significantly long timescales with high probability, provided that the wave is orbitally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Mark van den Bosch , Hermen Jan Hupkes

Localization of waves by disorder is a fundamental physical problem encompassing a diverse spectrum of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies in the context of metal-insulator transitions, the quantum Hall effect, light propagation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-07 Sergej Flach

A method for solving model nonlinear equations describing plasma oscillations in the presence of viscosity and resistivity is given. By first going to the Lagrangian variables and then transforming the space variable conveniently, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 E. Infeld , G. Rowlands , A. A. Skorupski