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We study modulational instability (MI) of plane waves in nonlocal nonlinear Kerr media. For a focusing nonlinearity we show that, although the nonlocality tends to suppress MI, it can never remove it completely, irrespectively of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Wieslaw Krolikowski , Ole Bang , Jens Juul Rasmuss , John Wyller

We study modulational stability and instability in the Whitham equation, combining the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, and modified to permit the effects of surface tension and constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

We describe the full-time dynamics of modulational instability in F=1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates for the case of the integrable three-component model associated with the matrix nonlinear Schroedinger equation. We obtain an exact…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Evgeny V. Doktorov , Vassilis M. Rothos , Yuri S. Kivshar

We investigate one-dimensional transverse modulational instability in a non local medium excited with a spatially incoherent source. Employing undoped nematic liquid crystals in a planar pre-tilted configuration, we investigate the role of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Marco Peccianti , Claudio Conti , Emiliano Alberici , Gaetano Assanto

This study investigates nonlinear gravity waves in the compressible atmosphere from the Earth's surface to the deep atmosphere. These waves are effectively described by Grimshaw's dissipative modulation equations which provide the basis for…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 Mark Schlutow , Erik Wahlén

The dynamics of wave groups is studied for long waves, using the framework of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation and its generalizations. It is shown that the dynamics are richer than the corresponding results obtained just from the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-27 Andrei Marin , Adrian Stefan Carstea

Nonlinear two-dimensional internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the atmospheres of the Earth and the Sun are studied. The resulting two-dimensional nonlinear equation has the form of a generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with nonlocal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-23 Volodymyr M. Lashkin , Oleg K. Cheremnykh

In this paper, modulation instability and nonlinear supratransmission are investigated in a one-dimensional chain of atoms using cubic-quartic nonlinearity coefficients. As a result, we establish the discrete nonlinear evolution equation by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-09 Alphonse Houwe , Souleymanou Abbagari , Lanre Akinyemi , Serge Yamigno Doka , Kofane Timoleon Crepin

Oscillatory instability (OI) emerges amidst turbulent states in experiments in various turbulent fluid and thermo-fluid systems such as aero-acoustic, thermoacoustic and aeroelastic systems. For the time series of the relevant dynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-06 Vladimir Garcia-Morales , Shruti Tandon , Juergen Kurths , R. I. Sujith

Recent experiments and simulations have shown that unsteady turbulent flows, before reaching a dynamic equilibrium state, display a universal behaviour. We show that the observed universal non-equilibrium scaling can be explained using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Wouter Bos , Robert Rubinstein

We experimentally study universal nonequilibrium dynamics of two-dimensional atomic Bose gases quenched from repulsive to attractive interactions. We observe the manifestation of modulational instability that, instead of causing collapse,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-04 Cheng-An Chen , Chen-Lung Hung

We determine the stability and instability of a sufficiently small and periodic traveling wave to long wavelength perturbations, for a nonlinear dispersive equation which extends a Camassa-Holm equation to include all the dispersion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Ashish K. Pandey

We analyze the linear stability of monoclinal traveling waves on a constant incline, which connect uniform flowing regions of differing depths. The classical shallow-water equations are employed, subject to a general resistive drag term.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jake Langham , Andrew J. Hogg

Nonlinear systems can exhibit a rich set of dynamics that are inherently sensitive to their initial conditions. One such example is modulational instability, which is believed to be one of the most prevalent instabilities in nature. By…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-02 Jason H. V. Nguyen , De Luo , Randall G. Hulet

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

Research on the emergence of thermodynamics in closed quantum systems under unitary time evolution arrived at the consensus that generic systems equilibrate under rather general assumptions. A new focus of the field is thus on exceptions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-19 J. Eckseler , J. Schnack

We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of nonlocality on the modulational instability of plane waves, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Krolikowski , O. Bang , N. I. Nikolov , D. Neshev , J. Wyller , J. J. Rasmussen , D. Edmundson

In a companion paper, we established nonlinear stability with detailed diffusive rates of decay of spectrally stable periodic traveling-wave solutions of reaction diffusion systems under small perturbations consisting of a nonlocalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mathew Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-04-07 Qihuai Liu , Dingbian Qian

On the basis of the competing cubic-quintic nonlinearity model, stability (instability) of continuous waves in nonlocal random non-Kerr nonlinear media is studied analytically and numerically. Fluctuating media parameters are modeled by the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-04-24 Maxim A. Molchan