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We provide the classification of possible wave structures evolving from initially discontinuous profiles for the photon fluid propagating in a normal dispersion fiber. The dynamics of light field is described by the generalized Chen-Lee-Liu…
Motivated by cosmological Hartle-Hawking and microcanonical density matrix prescriptions for the quantum state of the Universe we develop Schwinger-Keldysh in-in formalism for generic nonequilibrium dynamical systems with the initial…
The Eulerian cosmological fluid equations are used to study the nonlinear mode coupling of density fluctuations. We evaluate the second-order power spectrum including all four-point contributions. In the weakly nonlinear regime we find that…
We use a one-dimensional model system to compare the predictions of two different 'yardsticks' to compute the position of a particle from its quantum field theoretical state. Based on the first yardstick (defined by the Newton-Wigner…
We consider the periodic non-linear Schr\"odinger equation with non-linearity given by $|u|^{p-1}u$ for odd $p > 1$ in dimension $1$. We first establish that the difference between the non-linear evolution and a phase rotation of the the…
The introduction of nonlinearities in the Schr\"odinger equation has been considered in the literature as an effective manner to describe the action of external environments or mean fields. Here, in particular, we explore the nonlinear…
We put forth an approach to obtain a quantum master equation for the propagation of light in nonlinear fiber optics by relying on simple quantum pictures of the processes (linear and nonlinear) occurring along propagation in an optical…
The impossibility of superluminal communication is a fundamental principle of physics. Here we show that this principle underpins the performance of several fundamental tasks in quantum information processing and quantum metrology. In…
Exact expressions are obtained for a diversity of propagating patterns for a derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a quintic nonlinearity. These patterns include bright pulses, fronts and dark solitons. The evolution of the wave…
The apparent superluminal propagation of electromagnetic signals seen in recent experiments is shown to be the result of simple and robust properties of relativistic field equations. Although the wave front of a signal passing through a…
We examine a recently-proposed family of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 27:1771(1994)] with respect to a group of transformations that linearize a subfamily of them. We investigate the structure of the whole…
Non-linear special relativity (or doubly special relativity) is a simple framework for encoding properties of flat quantum space-time. In this paper we show how this formalism may be generalized to incorporate curvature (leading to what…
Einstein`s equivalence principle states the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and corresponding inertial field in an accelerated reference frame. However, to what extent the equivalence principle remains valid in…
We establish the existence of a nontrivial weak solution to strongly indefinite asymptotically linear and superlinear Schr\"odinger equations. The novelty is to identify the essential relation between the spectrum of the operator and the…
Motivated by a proposal from Greenberger [Physica Scripta T76, p.57 (1998) ] for superluminal signaling, and inspired by an experiment from Zou, Wang, and Mandel [Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, p.318 (1991) ] showing interference effects within…
Non linear fiber optics concerns with the non linear optical phenomena occurring inside optical fibers. The propagation of light in single-mode fibers is governed by the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) in the presence…
The modulational instability of spatially uniform states in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is examined in the presence of higher-order dissipation. The study is motivated by results on the effects of three-body recombination in…
The inexactness of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation of a charged particle in an external electromagnetic field is discussed in terms of the damping effect of the radiation. A possible improvement is to add a nonlinear term…
We present, and mathematically describe, a proof-of-principle quantum-optical experiment that seemingly enables superluminal signaling, contrary to the import of the 'no-signaling' theorem.
We study nonlinear dispersive wave systems described by hyperbolic PDE's in R^{d} and difference equations on the lattice Z^{d}. The systems involve two small parameters: one is the ratio of the slow and the fast time scales, and another…