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We study modulational instability of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice, which is modelled as a coupled discrete nonlinear Schr \"{o}dinger equation. The excitation spectrum and the modulational instability…

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We prove a principle of linearized stability for traveling wave solutions to neural field equations posed on the real line. Additionally, we provide the existence of a finite dimensional invariant center manifold close to a traveling wave,…

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We consider a ring of identical or near identical coupled periodic oscillators in which the connections have randomly heterogeneous strength. We use the master stability function method to determine the possible patterns at the…

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The study of structures involving vortices in one component and bright solitary waves in another has a time-honored history in two-component atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. In the present work, we revisit this topic extending…

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Stationary wave solutions of the perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation are considered in the presence of external hamiltonian perturbations. Conditions of their chaotic behaviour are studied with the help of Melnikov theory. For the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. B. Blyuss

We numerically investigate the stability and linear oscillatory behavior of a naturally diverging mass whose potential energy is harmonically modulated. It is known that in the Kapitza limit, i.e. when the period of modulation is much…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Arnaud Lazarus

We apply the averaging method to analyze spatio-temportal structures in nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations and thereby study the dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with the scattering…

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The effect of temporal modulation on traveling waves in the flows in two distinct systems of rotating cylinders, both with broken azimuthal symmetry, has been investigated. It is shown that by modulating the control parameter at twice the…

Consider a linear autonomous Hamiltonian system with a time periodic bound state solution. In this paper we study the structural instability of this bound state ^M relative to time almost periodic perturbations which are small, localized…

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The bosonic Josephson junction, one of the maximally simple models for periodic-driven many-body systems, has been intensively studied in the past two decades. Here, we revisit this problem with five different methods, all of which have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-01 Xiaoshui Lin , Zeyu Rao , Ming Gong

The stability of periodic traveling wave solutions to dispersive PDEs with respect to `arbitrary' perturbations is still widely open. The focus is put here on stability with respect to perturbations of the same period as the wave, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage , Colin Mietka , L. Miguel Rodrigues

We study travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which have double power nonlinearities with integer indices, such as the Gardner equation, and fractional dispersion. Whether these equations have ground state…

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We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

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In this paper we studied the weakly nonlinear stage of stationary convective instability in a nonuniformly rotating layer of an electrically conductive fluid in an axial uniform magnetic field under the influence of: a) temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

In this paper, we study the orbital stability for a four-parameter family of periodic stationary traveling wave solutions to the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. In particular, we derive sufficient conditions for such a solution to…

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We study the spectral stability of smooth, small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the Novikov equation, which is a Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearities. Specifically, we investigate the…

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Euler's equations govern the behavior of gravity waves on the surface of an incompressible, inviscid, and irrotational fluid of arbitrary depth. We investigate the spectral stability of sufficiently small-amplitude, one-dimensional Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck , Olga Trichtchenko

In this work we revisit a classical problem of traveling waves in a damped Frenkel-Kontorova lattice driven by a constant external force. We compute these solutions as fixed points of a nonlinear map and obtain the corresponding kinetic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-04 A. Vainchtein , J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Xu

We discuss the dynamics of the quantum fluctuation around the nonlinear massive wave solution in the Higgs potential. In particular, we analyze the stability and instability of the mode function. Using the stability condition for Hill's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-13 Yoshio Kitadono , Tomohiro Inagaki

We consider a system of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with quadratic interaction in two and three space dimensions. The strong instability of standing wave solutions is studied for the system without assuming the mass resonance…

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