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We present a theoretical explanation for the interfacial zigzag instability that appears in anisotropic systems. Such an instability has been experimentally highlighted for an Ising wall formed in a nematic liquid crystal cell under…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Chevallard , M. G. Clerc , P. Coullet , J. -M. Gill

The Einstein field equations of gravitation are characterized by cross-scale, high-order nonlinear terms, representing a challenge for numerical modeling. In an exact spectral decomposition, high-order nonlinearities correspond to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Claudio Meringolo , Sergio Servidio

The amplitude equation for an unstable electrostatic wave is analyzed using an expansion in the mode amplitude $A(t)$. In the limit of weak instability, i.e. $\gamma\to 0^+$ where $\gamma$ is the linear growth rate, the nonlinear…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 John David Crawford , Anandhan Jayaraman

The von Neumann equation with delta self-interaction kernel serves as a statistical model for nonlinear waves, and it exhibits a bifurcation between stable and unstable regimes. In oceanography it is known as the Alber equation, and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Agissilaos Athanassoulis , Fotini Karakatsani , Irene Kyza

We consider propagation of instability fronts in conservative nonlinear wave systems by the Whitham method. Whitham modulation equations for periodic solutions of the generalized Klein-Gordon equation are solved in the limit of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-11 A. M. Kamchatnov

Taking advantage of the recently developed L-ALE framework [Sierra-Ausin \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Fluids {\bf{7}}, 113603 (2022)], we characterize the linear dynamics of an incompressible gas bubble immersed in a biaxial straining flow.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-25 Aliénor Rivière , David Fabre , Jacques Magnaudet , François Gallaire

An unstable one-dimensional Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) mode has been studied through high-precision numerical simulations. The initial turbulent, periodic equilibrium state is obtained by solving a Vlasov-Poisson system for initially…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Sofia Zanelli , Gabriele Celebre , Sergio Servidio , Francesco Valentini

This paper presents an introduction to phase transitions and critical phenomena on the one hand, and nonequilibrium patterns on the other, using the Ginzburg-Landau theory as a unified language. In the first part, mean-field theory is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-19 P. C. Hohenberg , A. P. Krekhov

The Ginzburg-Landau functional is a phase transition model which is suitable for clustering or classification type problems. We study the asymptotics of a sequence of Ginzburg-Landau functionals with anisotropic interaction potentials on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-14 Matthew Thorpe , Florian Theil

We study the linear stability of entire radial solutions $u(re^{i\theta})=f(r)e^{i\theta}$, with positive increasing profile $f(r)$, to the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau equation \[ -\Delta u -\delta (\partial_x+i\partial_y)^2\bar u…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Xavier Lamy , Andrés Zúñiga

The appearance of travelling-wave-type solutions in pipe Poiseuille flow that are disconnected from the basic parabolic profile is numerically studied in detail. We focus on solutions in the 2-fold azimuthally-periodic subspace because of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-04 F. Mellibovsky , B. Eckhardt

A nonrelativistic charged particle moving in an anisotropic harmonic oscillator potential plus a homogeneous static electromagnetic field is studied. Several configurations of the electromagnetic field are considered. The Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Qiong-Gui Lin

I discuss recent advances in the understanding of non-equilibrium gauge field dynamics in plasmas which have particle distributions which are locally anisotropic in momentum space. In contrast to locally isotropic plasmas such anisotropic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-18 Michael Strickland

The present paper is devoted to a study of the equilibrium configurations of slowly rotating anisotropic stars in the framework of general relativity. For that purpose, we provide the equations of structure where the rotation is treated to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Philip Beltracchi , Camilo Posada

We consider a system of two Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations, in the presence of an optical-lattice (OL) potential, coupled by both nonlinear and linear terms. This system describes a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) composed of two different…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

We analyse the nematic Helmholtz-Korteweg equation, a variant of the classical Helmholtz equation that describes time-harmonic wave propagation in calamitic fluids in the presence of nematic order. A prominent example is given by nematic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Patrick E. Farrell , Tim van Beeck , Umberto Zerbinati

We identify a possible mechanism of the plasmon instabilities in periodically gated two-dimensional electron systems with a modulated electron density (plasmonic crystals) under direct current. The instability occurs due to the amplified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov , Victor Ryzhii , Michael S. Shur

The problem of heterogeneous nucleation of second-phase in alloys in the vicinity of elastic defects is considered. The defect can be a dislocation line or a crack tip residing in a crystalline solid. We use the Ginzburg-Landau equation to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-07 Christina Bjerkén , Ali R. Massih

We carry out an asymptotic analysis of a thin nematic liquid crystal in which one elastic constant dominates over the others, namely \begin{align} \label{energyab} \inf E_\varepsilon(u)\quad\mbox{where}\quad E_\varepsilon(u) :=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Dmitry Golovaty , Peter Sternberg , Raghavendra Venkatraman

We present a theoretical description for the equilibrium states of a large class of models of two-dimensional and geophysical flows, in arbitrary domains. We account for the existence of ensemble inequivalence and negative specific heat in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Antoine Venaille , Freddy Bouchet