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We experimentally study anomalous diffusion of ultra-cold atoms in a one dimensional polarization optical lattice. The atomic spatial distribution is recorded at different times and its dynamics and shape are analyzed. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Yoav Sagi , Miri Brook , Ido Almog , Nir Davidson

We study the dynamics of systems consisting of two spatially segregated ODE compartments coupled through a one-dimensional bulk diffusion field. For this coupled PDE-ODE system, we first employ a multi-scale asymptotic expansion to derive…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-11 Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre , Wayne Nagata , Michael J. Ward

It is known that a finite-size homogeneous granular fluid develops an hydrodynamic-like instability when dissipation crosses a threshold value. This instability is analyzed in terms of modified hydrodynamic equations: first, a source term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Soto , M. Mareschal , M. Malek Mansour

This paper is concerned with the spatial propagation of nonlocal dispersal equations with bistable or multistable nonlinearity in exterior domains. We obtain the existence and uniqueness of an entire solution which behaves like a planar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Shao-Xia Qiao , Wan-Tong Li , Jian-Wen Sun

We study linear and nonlinear wave scattering by an optical vortex in a self-defocusing nonlinear Kerr medium. In the linear case, we find a splitting of a plane-wave front at the vortex proportional to its circulation, similar to what…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Dragomir Neshev , Alexander Nepomnyashchy , Yuri S. Kivshar

Time-decaying harmonic oscillators yield dispersive estimates with weak decay, and change the threshold power of the nonlinearity between the short and the long range. In the non-critical case for the time-decaying harmonic oscillator, this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Masaki Kawamoto

We develop a diagrammatic theory for transport of waves in disordered media with weak nonlinearity. We first represent the solution of the nonlinear wave equation as a nonlinear Born series. From this, we construct nonlinear ladder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud

The motive of this work is to understand the complex spatial characteristics of finite-amplitude elastic wave propagation in periodic structures and leverage the unique opportunities offered by nonlinearity to activate complementary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-06-27 R. Ganesh , Stefano Gonella

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

Dispersion effects induce new instabilities and dynamics in the weakly nonlinear description of light propagation in fiber Bragg gratings. A new family of dispersive localized pulses that propagate with the group velocity is numerically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Martel , M. Higuera , J. D. Carrasco

The nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder is considered. The dynamics of an initially localized wave packet is studied. A subdiffusive spreading of the wave packet is explained in the framework of a continuous time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander Iomin

This work extends the applications of Anderson-type Hamiltonians to include transport characterized by anomalous diffusion. Herein, we investigate the transport properties of a one-dimensional disordered system that employs the discrete…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 J. L. Padgett , E. G. Kostadinova , C. D. Liaw , K. Busse , L. S. Matthews , T. W. Hyde

We show a novel kind of nonlinear waves in two-dimensional photonic lattices. This waves take the form of light clusters that may fill an arbitrary number of lattice sites. We have demonstrated by numerical simulations that stable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose Ramon Salgueiro , Humberto Michinel , Maria I. Rodas-Verde

Weakly ionized plasmas can be found in the lower layers of the solar and stellar atmospheres and in structures such as prominences and spicules. A variety of density perturbations and bulk flows detected in these environments have been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 David Martínez-Gómez

Direct phase-resolved simulations are performed to investigate the propagation and scattering of nonlinear ocean waves in fragmented sea ice. The numerical model solves the full time-dependent equations for nonlinear potential flow coupled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 Boyang Xu , Philippe Guyenne

We report on calculations of the translational and rotational short-time self-diffusion coefficients $D^t_s$ and $D^r_s$ for suspensions of charge-stabilized colloidal spheres. These diffusion coefficients are affected by electrostatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Watzlawek , G. Naegele

We consider a non acoustic chain of harmonic oscillators with the dynamics perturbed by a random local exchange of momentum, such that energy and momentum are conserved. The macroscopic limits of the energy density, momentum and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tomasz Komorowski , Stefano Olla

We investigate the quantum dynamics in a disordered electronic lattice with Fibonacci sequence of site energy and off-diagonal electron-phonon coupling within a sub-Ohmic bath by the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-26 Yao Yao

Diffusion noise is a major source of spectral line broadening in liquid state nano-scale nuclear magnetic resonance with shallow nitrogen-vacancy centres, whose main consequence is a limited spectral resolution. This limitation arises by…

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