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Properties of modified plasma waves in non-linear electrodynamics are investigated. We consider a cold, uniform, collisionless, and magnetized plasma model. Initially, we also assume small amplitude waves and the non-relativistic…

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A theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in a weakly anisotropic smoothly inhomogeneous medium is developed, based on the quantum-mechanical diagonalization procedure applied to Maxwell equations. The equations of motion for the…

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We develop the theory of weak wave turbulence in systems described by the Schr\"odinger-Helmholtz equations in two and three dimensions. This model contains as limits both the familiar cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, and the…

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