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We consider an approximation of the linearised equation of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation that describes the distribution of quasiparticles in a dilute gas of bosons at low temperature. The corresponding collision frequency is neither…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Miguel Escobedo , Minh-Binh Tran

The core focus of this research work is to obtain invariant solutions and conservation laws of the (3+1)-dimensional ZK equation, a higher-dimensional generalization of the Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation, which describes the phenomenon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Anshika Singhal , Urvashi Joshi , Rajan Arora

In the limit of extremely intense electromagnetic fields the Maxwell equations are modified due to the photon-photon scattering that makes the vacuum refraction index depend on the field amplitude. In presence of electromagnetic waves with…

In the present work we consider the subject of dark fractional solitary waves in the realm of generalized (fractional) forms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. While earlier studies have examined such states in the realm of real…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-21 Almudena P. Márquez , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We present a large family of {\it{exact}} solitary wave solutions of the one dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation, with time-varying scattering length and gain/loss, in both expulsive and regular parabolic confinement regimes. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Rajneesh Atre , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , G. S. Agarwal

Assuming that the nucleus can be treated as a perfect fluid we study the conditions for the formation and propagation of Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) solitons in nuclear matter. The KdV equation is obtained from the Euler and continuity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 D. A. Fogaça , F. S. Navarra

Roughly speaking a solitary wave is a solution of a field equation whose energy travels as a localized packet and which preserves this localization in time. A soliton is a solitary wave which exhibits some strong form of stability so that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Vieri Benci , Donato Fortunato

We study the bosonic Boltzmann-Nordheim kinetic equation, which describes the kinetic regime of weakly interacting bosons with s-wave scattering only. We consider a spatially homogeneous fluid with an isotropic momentum distribution. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Herbert Spohn

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

We study collective phenomena of self-propagating particles using the nonlinear Kramers equation. A solitary wave state appears from an instability of the spatially uniform ordered state with nonzero average velocity. Two solitary waves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Kazuya Ishibashi

We consider approximate, exact, and numerical solutions to the cylindrical Korteweg-de Vries equation. We show that there are different types of solitary waves and obtain the dependence of their parameters on distance. Then, we study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-18 Wencheng Hu , Jingli Ren , Yury Stepanyants

Ultracold condensates provide a unique platform for exploring soliton physics. Motivated by the recent experiments realizing the sine-Gordon model in a split one-dimensional (1D) BEC, we demonstrate that this system naturally supports…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-10 Zeyu Rao , Xiaoshui Lin , Jingsong He , Guangcan Guo , Ming Gong

We study asymptotic reductions and solitary waves of a weakly nonlocal defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) model. The hydrodynamic form of the latter is analyzed by means of multiscale expansion methods. To the leading-order of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-11-20 G. N. Koutsokostas , T. P. Horikis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We describe how to control the motion -- both speed and propagation direction -- of a nonlinear traveling wave in real time via soliton management with time-varying dispersion/diffusion and loss/gain terms. When carried out subject to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-07-11 Robert A. Van Gorder

Motivated by the study of matter waves in Bose-Einstein condensates and coupled nonlinear optical systems, we study a system of two coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations with inhomogeneous parameters, including a linear coupling. For that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Juan Belmonte Beitia , Victor M. Perez Garcia , Pedro J. Torres

Understanding, predicting, and controlling physical processes often relies on the analysis of the dynamics of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this context, the present study offers an in-depth investigation into the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 J. M. Escorcia

The paper addresses the bistability caused by spontaneous symmetry breaking bifurcation in a one-dimensional periodically corrugated nonlinear waveguide pumped by coherent light at normal incidence. The formation and the stability of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-12 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

This paper is devoted to the study of solitary waves and solitons whose existence is related to the ratio energy/charge. These solitary waves are called hylomorphic. This class includes the Q-balls, which are spherically symmetric solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 Vieri Benci

We consider the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation $\partial_t u = -\partial_x(\partial_x^2 u + f(u))$, where $f(u)$ is an odd function of class $C^3$. Under some assumptions on $f$, this equation admits \emph{solitary waves}, that is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Jacek Jendrej

The stability of periodic traveling wave solutions to dispersive PDEs with respect to `arbitrary' perturbations is still widely open. The focus is put here on stability with respect to perturbations of the same period as the wave, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage , Colin Mietka , L. Miguel Rodrigues