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We provide the rigorous derivation of the wave kinetic equation from the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation at the kinetic timescale, under a particular scaling law that describes the limiting process. This solves a main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

A fundamental question in wave turbulence theory is to understand how the "wave kinetic equation" (WKE) describes the long-time dynamics of its associated nonlinear dispersive equation. Formal derivations in the physics literature date back…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

The main purpose of this expository note is to give a short account of the recent developments in mathematical wave kinetic theory. After reviewing the physical theory, we explain the importance of the notion of a scaling law, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the weakly nonlinear regime with random Gaussian fields as initial data is considered. The problem is set on the torus in any dimension greater than two. A conjecture in statistical physics is that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Charles Collot , Pierre Germain

From among the waves whose dynamics are governed by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, we find a robust, spatiotemporally disordered family, in which waves initialized with increasing amplitudes, on average, over long time scales,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-05 Katelyn Plaisier Leisman , Douglas Zhou , J. W. Banks , Gregor Kovačič , David Cai

This manuscript continues and extends in various directions the result in arXiv:2104.11204, which gave a full derivation of the wave kinetic equation (WKE) from the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation in dimensions $d\geq 3$. The wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

In this paper we give a new and simplified proof of the theorem on selection of standing waves for small energy solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (NLS) that we gave in \cite{CM15APDE}. We consider a NLS with a Schr\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Scipio Cuccagna , Masaya Maeda

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation set on a flat torus, in the regime which is conjectured to lead to the kinetic wave equation; in particular, the data are random, and spread up to high frequency in a weakly nonlinear regime.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Charles Collot , Pierre Germain

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation posed on the box $[0,L]^d$ with periodic boundary conditions. The aim is to describe the long-time dynamics by deriving effective equations for it when $L$ is large and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Tristan Buckmaster , Pierre Germain , Zaher Hani , Jalal Shatah

For nonlinear dispersive systems, the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation can usually be derived as a formal approximation equation describing slow spatial and temporal modulations of the envelope of a spatially and temporally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Max Heß

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation set on a two dimensional box of size $L$ with periodic boundary conditions. By taking the large box limit $L \to \infty$ in the weakly nonlinear regime (characterized by smallness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Erwan Faou , Pierre Germain , Zaher Hani

We show that a nonlinear Schr\"odinger wave equation can reproduce all the features of linear quantum mechanics. This nonlinear wave equation is obtained by exploring, in a uniform language, the transition from fully classical theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Chris D. Richardson , Peter Schlagheck , John Martin , Nicolas Vandewalle , Thierry Bastin

In this work, we investigate the existence and orbital (in)stability of several branches of standing--wave solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a looping--edge graph $\mathcal{G}$, consisting of a circle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jaime Angulo Pava , Alexander Muñoz

The wave kinetic equation predicts the averaged temporal evolution of a continuous spectral density of waves either randomly interacting or scattered by the fine structure of a medium. In a wide range of systems, the wave kinetic equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yohei Onuki , Jules Guioth , Freddy Bouchet

This is the first part of a two-paper series studying nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with quasi-periodic initial data. In this paper, we consider the standard nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Under the assumption that the Fourier…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 David Damanik , Yong Li , Fei Xu

The dynamics of single carrier wavepackets in nonlinear wave problems over periodic structures can be often formally approximated by the constant coefficient nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) as an effective model for the wavepacket…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Tomáš Dohnal , Daniel Rudolf

The nonlinear, cubic Schrodinger (NLS) equation has numerous physical applications, but in general is very difficult to solve. Nonetheless, under certain circumstances parameters quantifying the width, momentum and energy of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 James E. Lidsey

We derive several kinetic equations to model the large scale, low Fresnel number behavior of the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation with a rapidly fluctuating random potential. There are three types of kinetic equations the longitudinal,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert Fannjiang

The Schr\"odinger equation is universally accepted due to its excellent predictions aligning with observed results within its defined conditions. Nevertheless, it does not seem to possess the simplicity of fundamental laws, such as Newton's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Xuefeng Bao

We suggest a new derivation of a kinetic equation of Kolmogorov-Zakharov (KZ) type for the spectrum of the weakly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with stochastic forcing. The kynetic equation is obtained as a result of a double limiting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 Sergei Kuksin , Alberto Maiocchi
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