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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…

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We examine the modulational and parametric instabilities arising in a non-autonomous, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation setting. The principal motivation for our study stems from the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

Relying upon tools from the theory of integrable systems, we discuss the linear instability of the Kuznetsov-Ma breathers and the Akhmediev breathers of the focusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. We use the Darboux transformation to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Mariana Haragus , Dmitry Pelinovsky

We study analytically and numerically the stability of the standing waves for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect and a power type nonlinearity. A main difficulty is to compute the number of negative eigenvalues of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefan Le-Coz , Reika Fukuizumi , Gadi Fibich , Baruch Ksherim , Yonatan Sivan

In numerical experiments involving nonlinear solitary waves propagating through nonhomogeneous media one observes "breathing" in the sense of the amplitude of the wave going up and down on a much faster scale than the motion of the wave. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Justin Holmer , Maciej Zworski

We establish the full asymptotic stability of solitary wave solutions for the 1D focusing cubic Schr\"odinger equation on the line under small perturbations in weighted Sobolev spaces, building upon our results in [58]. The proof integrates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Yongming Li

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation admits a large family of one-dimensional bounded traveling-wave solutions. All such solutions may be written in terms of an amplitude and a phase. Solutions with piecewise constant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Roger J. Thelwell , John D. Carter , Bernard Deconinck

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

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

In this paper we investigate the existence of solutions in $H^1(R^N) \times H^1(R^N)$ for nonlinear Schr\"odinger systems of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta u_1 &= \lambda_1 u_1 + \mu_1 |u_1|^{p_1 -2}u_1 + r_1\beta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Tianxiang Gou , Louis Jeanjean

We demonstrate a possibility to make rogue waves (RWs) in the form of the Peregrine soliton (PS) and Kuznetsov-Ma breathers (KMBs) effectively stable objects, with the help of properly defined dispersion or nonlinearity management applied…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-14 J. Cuevas-Maraver , B. A. Malomed , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We show global asymptotic stability of solitary waves of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in space dimension 1. Furthermore, the radiation is shown to exhibit long range scattering if the nonlinearity is cubic at the origin, or standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Charles Collot , Pierre Germain

Solitons on a finite a background, also called breathers, are solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which play a pivotal role in the description of rogue waves and modulation instability. The breather family includes…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-03-04 Matteo Conforti , Arnaud Mussot , Alexandre Kudlinski , Stefano Trillo , Nail Akhmediev

We consider a family of regularized defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations proposed in the context of the cubic NLS equation with a bounded dispersion relation. The time evolution is well-posed if the black soliton is perturbed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Michael Plum

We study on the relations between modulational instability and several well-known nonlinear excitations in a nonlinear fiber, such as bright soliton, nonlinear continuous wave, Akhmediev breather, Peregrine rogue wave, and Kuznetsov-Ma…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-08 Li-Chen Zhao , Liming Ling

We consider a coherently coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with modulated self-phase modulation, cross-phase modulation, and four-wave mixing nonlinearities and varying refractive index in anisotropic graded index nonlinear medium.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-17 K. Sakkaravarthi , R. Babu Mareeswaran , T. Kanna

This thesis deals with some theoretical aspects of deterministic freak wave generation in the wave basin of a hydrodynamic laboratory. We adopt the spatial nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation as a mathematical model to describe the deformation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-02 Natanael Karjanto

We study the instability of standing-wave solutions $e^{i\omega t}\phi_{\omega}(x)$ to the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation $$i\phi_t=-\triangle\phi+|x|^2\phi-|x|^b|\phi|^{p-1}\phi, \qquad \in\mathbb{R}^N, $$ where $ b > 0 $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Jianqing Chen , Yue Liu

We study the periodic non-linear Schrodinger equations with odd integer power nonlinearities, for initial data which are assumed to be small in some negative order Sobolev space, but which may have large L^2 mass. These equations are known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Christ , James Colliander , Terence Tao

We theoretically investigate the phenomenon of modulation instability for systems obeying nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which are under the influence of an external homogeneous synthetic magnetic field. For an initial condition, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-13 Karlo Lelas , Ozana Čelan , David Prelogović , Hrvoje Buljan , Dario Jukić