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In this paper we study the numerical instabilities of the NLS Akhmediev breather, the simplest space periodic, one-mode perturbation of the unstable background, limiting our considerations to the simplest case of one unstable mode. In…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-15 P. G. Grinevich , P. M. Santini

In this note, we give a rigorous proof that the NLS periodic Akhmediev breather is unstable. The proof follows the ideas in [17], in the sense that a suitable modification of the Stokes wave is the global attractor of the local Akhmediev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Miguel A. Alejo , Luca Fanelli , Claudio Muñoz

We reveal a new class of \textit{non-degenerate} Akhmediev breather (AB) solutions of Manakov equations that only exist in the focusing case. Based on exact solutions, we present the existence diagram of such excitations on the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-08-24 Chong Liu , Shao-Chun Chen , Xiankun Yao , Nail Akhmediev

We consider the \emph{focusing} nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation posed on the one dimensional line, with nonzero background condition at spatial infinity, given by a homogeneous plane wave. For this problem of physical interest, we study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Claudio Muñoz

Nonlinear stage of higher-order modulation instability (MI) phenomena in the frame of multicomponent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (NLSEs) are studied analytically and numerically. Our analysis shows that the $N$-component NLSEs can…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-15 Shao-Chun Chen , Chong Liu

The focusing NLS equation is the simplest universal model describing the modulation instability (MI) of quasi monochromatic waves in weakly nonlinear media, considered the main physical mechanism for the appearance of rogue (anomalous)…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-08-15 P. G. Grinevich , P. M. Santini

The Ablowitz-Ladik equations, hereafter called $AL_+$ and $AL_-$, are distinguished integrable discretizations of respectively the focusing and defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations. In this paper we first study the modulation…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-05-09 F. Coppini , P. M. Santini

Modulational instability has been used to explain the formation of breather and rogue waves qualitatively. In this paper, we show modulational instability can be used to explain the structure of them in a quantitative way. We develop a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-04-04 Liming Ling , Li-Chen Zhao

The focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is the simplest universal model describing the modulation instability (MI) of quasi monochromatic waves in weakly nonlinear media, and MI is considered the main physical mechanism for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 P. G. Grinevich , P. M. Santini

Solitons on a finite a background, also called breathers, are solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which play a pivotal role in the description of rogue waves and modulation instability. The breather family includes…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-03-04 Matteo Conforti , Arnaud Mussot , Alexandre Kudlinski , Stefano Trillo , Nail Akhmediev

In this paper we study the first nonlinear stage of modulation instability (NLSMI) of $x$-periodic AWs in multidimensional generalizations of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, like the non-integrable elliptic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Francesco Coppini , Paolo Maria Santini

We present explicit forms of general breather (GB), Akhmediev breather (AB), Ma soliton (MS) and rogue wave (RW) solutions of the two component nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation, namely Manakov equation. We derive these solutions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Vishnu Priya , M. Senthilvelan , M. Lakshmanan

Relying upon tools from the theory of integrable systems, we discuss the linear instability of the Kuznetsov-Ma breathers and the Akhmediev breathers of the focusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. We use the Darboux transformation to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Mariana Haragus , Dmitry Pelinovsky

By invoking Bogoliubov's spectrum, we show that for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, the modulation instability (MI) of its n = 1 Fourier mode on a finite background automatically triggers a further cascading instability, forcing all…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-16 Siu A. Chin , Omar A. Ashour , Milivoj R. Belic

We introduce a dynamic stabilization scheme universally applicable to unidirectional nonlinear coherent waves. By abruptly changing the waveguiding properties, the breathing of wave packets subject to modulation instability can be…

The Ablowitz-Ladik (AL) equations are distinguished integrable discretizations of the focusing and defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations. In a previous paper (arXiv:2305.04857) we have studied the effect of the modulation…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-05-15 Francesco Coppini , Paolo Maria Santini

The focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is the simplest universal model describing the modulation instability (MI) of quasi monochromatic waves in weakly nonlinear media, the main physical mechanism for the generation of rogue…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-05-01 P. G. Grinevich , P. M. Santini

Instabilities are common phenomena frequently observed in nature, sometimes leading to unexpected catastrophes and disasters in seemingly normal conditions. The simplest form of instability in a distributed system is its response to a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-02-05 O. Kimmoun , H. C. Hsu , H. Branger , M. S. Li , Y. Y. Chen , C. Kharif , M. Onorato , E. J. R. Kelleher , B. Kibler , N. Akhmediev , A. Chabchoub

In this work, we investigate the formation of time-periodic solutions with a non-zero background that emulate rogue waves, known as Kuzentsov-Ma (KM) breathers, in physically relevant lattice nonlinear dynamical systems. Starting from the…

The focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is the simplest universal model describing the modulation instability (MI) of quasi monochromatic waves in weakly nonlinear media, and MI is considered the main physical mechanism for the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-03-11 F. Coppini , P. G. Grinevich , P. M. Santini
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