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This paper is concerned with the periodic (in time) solutions to an one-dimensional semilinear wave equation with $x$-dependent coefficient. Such a model arises from the forced vibrations of a nonhomogeneous string and propagation of…

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We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

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We study the quantum dynamics of diatomic molecule driven by a circularly polarized resonant electric field. We look for a quantum effect due to classical chaos appearing due to the overlapping of nonlinear resonances associated to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. V. Lopez , J. G. T. Zanudo

We consider general reaction diffusion systems posed on rectangular lattices in two or more spatial dimensions. We show that travelling wave solutions to such systems that propagate in rational directions are nonlinearly stable under small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 A. Hoffman , H. J. Hupkes , E. Van Vleck

A symmetry analysis is presented for the three-dimensional nonrelativistic motion of charged particles in arbitrary stationary electromagnetic fields. The general form of the Lie point symmetries is found along with the fields that respect…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nikos Kallinikos , Efthymia Meletlidou

Scattering of nonstationary electromagnetic fields from axially symmetrical bodies is numerically investigated. Simulations are performed using the time- and frequency-domain approaches. Computational results obtained for a finite perfectly…

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We study the dynamics of nanocrystals composed of C60 fullerene molecules. We demonstrate that such structures can support long-lived strongly localized nonlinear oscillatory modes, which resemble discrete breathers in simple lattices. We…

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We show that nontrivial solutions to higher and fractional order equations with certain nonlinearity are radially symmetric and nonincreasing on geodesic balls in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$ as well as on the entire space…

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The q-deformation of harmonic oscillators is shown to lead to q-nonlinear vibrations. The examples of q-nonlinearized wave equation and Schr\"odinger equation are considered. The procedure is generalized to broader class of nonlinearities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , F. Zaccaria

A class of solutions of nonlinear von Neumann equations exhibits rhythmic properties analogous to those found for nonlinear kinetic equations employed in phenomenological description of biochemical oscillations. As opposed to kinetic…

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Previously, a series of tidally-excited oscillations were discovered in the eccentric eclipsing binary KIC 3230227. The pulsation amplitudes and phases suggest the observed oscillations are prograde quadruple modes. In this paper, we refine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhao Guo

In this paper we consider the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. In particular, we resolve the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability by…

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The non-stationary dynamics of a bouncing ball, comprising of both periodic as well as chaotic behavior, is studied through wavelet transform. The multi-scale characterization of the time series displays clear signature of self-similarity,…

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In this work we explore how nonlinear modes described by a dispersive wave equation (in our example, the nonlinear Schrodinger equation) and localized in a few wells of a periodic potential can act analogously to a chain of coupled…

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The features of propagation of intense waves are of great interest for theory and experiment in electrodynamics and acoustics. The behavior of nonlinear waves in a bounded volume is of especial importance and, at the same time, is an…

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The three-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of an electron gas in a semiconductor quantum well is analyzed in terms of a self-consistent fluid formulation and a variational approach. Assuming a time-dependent localized profile for the fluid…

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