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The thermomagnetic instability of the critical state in superconductors is analysed with account of the dissipation and dispersion. The possibility is demonstrated of the existance of a nonlinear shok wave describing the final stage of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. A. Taylanov

Linear and weakly nonlinear stability analyses of an externally shear-imposed, gravity-driven falling film over a uniformly heated wavy substrate are studied. The longwave asymptotic expansion technique is utilized to formulate a single…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-22 Md. Mouzakkir Hossain , Sukhendu Ghosh , Harekrushna Behera , G. P. Raja Sekhar

In this paper, we study the standing wave solutions of Klein--Gordon equation with logarithmic nonlinearity. The existence of the standing wave solution related to the ground state $\phi_0(x)$ is obtained. Further, we prove the instability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Lijia Han , Yue Qiu , Xiaohong Wang

We study existence and stability properties of ground-state standing waves for two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point interaction and a focusing power nonlinearity. The Schr\"odinger operator with a point interaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Noriyoshi Fukaya , Vladimir Georgiev , Masahiro Ikeda

In two previous papers the author described ``Islands of Instability" that may appear in wavefunction models with nonlinear evolution (of a type proposed originally in the context of the Measurement Problem). Such ``IsoI" represent a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 W. David Wick

We study standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a discrete graph. We characterize for a self-adjoint realizations of Schr\"odinger operators conditions related with the geometry of the graph that guarantee discreteness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Setenay Akduman , Matthias Hofmann , Sedef Karakılıç

The nonlinear Schroedinger equation has several families of quasi-periodic travelling waves, each of which can be parametrized up to symmetries by two real numbers: the period of the modulus of the wave profile, and the variation of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Thierry Gallay , Mariana Haragus

Extending results of Oh--Zumbrun and Johnson--Zumbrun for parabolic conservation laws, we show that spectral stability implies nonlinear stability for spatially periodic viscous roll wave solutions of the one-dimensional St. Venant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-19 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun , Pascal Noble

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

We investigate strongly nonlinear stationary gravity waves which experience refraction due to a thin vertical shear layer of horizontal background wind. The velocity amplitude of the waves is of the same order of magnitude as the background…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-14 Mark Schlutow , Georg S. Völker

We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhiwu Lin

We study the instability of bound states for abstract nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. We prove a new instability result for a borderline case between stability and instability. We also reprove some known results in a unified way.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Masahito Ohta

A class of periodic solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with non- Hermitian potentials are considered. The system may be implemented in planar nonlinear optical waveguides carrying an appropriate distribution of local gain and…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-21 Bin Liu , Lu Li , Boris A. Malomed

The stability of the bright solitary wave solution to the perturbed cubic-quintic Schroedinger equation is considered. It is shown that in a certain region of parameter space these solutions are unstable, with the instability being…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Todd Kapitula

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 consider the following triple power nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation: iut + $\Delta$u + a 1 |u|u + a 2 |u| 2 u + a 3 |u| 3 u = 0. We are interested in algebraic standing waves i.e standing waves with algebraic decay above equation in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Phan van Tin

We study nonlinear waves on a plane-wave background in an erbium-doped fiber system, which is governed by the coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger and the Maxwell-Bloch equations. We find that prolific different types of nonlinear localized and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-14 Yang Ren , Zhan-Ying Yang , Chong Liu , Wen-Li Yang

Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, complemented by a confining potential, possesses a discrete set of stationary solutions. These are called coherent modes, since the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation describes coherent states. Such modes are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

We consider a system of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations related to the Raman amplification in a plasma. We study the orbital stability and instability of standing waves bifurcating from the semi-trivial standing wave of the system. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Mathieu Colin , Masahito Ohta

We consider a semilinear Schr\"odinger equation, driven by the power degenerate second order differential operator $\nabla\cdot (|x|^{2a} \nabla), a\in (0,1)$. We construct the solitary waves, in the sharp range of parameters, as minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Vishnu Iyer , Atanas G. Stefanov