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Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jared C. Bronski , Zoi Rapti

In this paper, we present a microscopic derivation of the two-dimensional focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation starting from an interacting $N$-particle system of Bosons. The interaction potential we consider is given by…

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The existence of nonzero periodic travelling wave solutions for a general discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) on finite one-dimensional lattices is proved. The DNLS features a general nonlinear term and variable range of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Dirk Hennig

Traveling modulating pulse solutions consist of a small amplitude pulse-like envelope moving with a constant speed and modulating a harmonic carrier wave. Such solutions can be approximated by solitons of an effective nonlinear Schrodinger…

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We consider nonlinear wave structures described by the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation with taking into account a small Burgers viscosity for the case of step-like initial conditions. The Whitham modulation equations are derived which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-21 L. F. Calazans de Brito , A. M. Kamchatnov

In this paper, an inverse variational problem is solved for the nonlocal nonlinear Schrdinger equation used in modeling filamentation in various nonlinear media. The corresponding integral relations are found which generalize the…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-29 Andrey D. Bulygin

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the study of wave propagation in nonlinear photonic lattices. The interplay between nonlinearity and periodicity has led researchers to manipulate light and discover new and…

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In this paper, we develop an inverse scattering transform for the integrable focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the half-line subject to a class of boundary conditions. The method is based on the notions of integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-06-22 Cheng Zhang

The fractional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (fDNLS) is studied on a periodic lattice from the analytic and dynamic perspective by varying the mesh size $h>0$ and the nonlocal L\'evy index $\alpha \in (0,2]$. We show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Brian Choi

The study of hyperbolic waves involves various notions which help characterise how these structures evolve. One important facet is the notion of \emph{genuine nonlinearity}, namely the ability for shocks and rarefactions to form instead of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Daniel James Ratliff

The present contribution contains a quite extensive theory for the stability analysis of plane periodic waves of general Schr{\"o}dinger equations. On one hand, we put the one-dimensional theory, or in other words the stability theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Corentin Audiard , L Rodrigues

Space time fractional nonlinear evolution equations have been widely applied for describing various types of physical mechanism of natural phenomena in mathematical physics and engineering. The proposed generalized exp expansion method…

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We consider the quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on the circle. We prove that there exist solutions corresponding to an initial datum built on four Fourier modes which form a resonant set, which have a non trivial dynamic that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Benoît Grebert , Laurent Thomann

A new integrable nonlocal nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) equation with clear physical motivations is proposed. This equation is obtained from a special reduction of the Manakov system, and it describes Manakov solutions whose two components…

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In this paper we study a family of one-dimensional stationary cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations with periodic potentials and linear part displaying Dirac points in the dispersion relation. By introducing a suitable periodic…

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We present a time-dependent extension of logarithmic perturbation theory for nonrelativistic quantum dynamics governed by the Schr\"odinger equation, in which the logarithm of the wave function is expanded in powers of a coupling constant.…

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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

We study the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation. Using the DBAR generalization of the nonlinear steepest descent method we compute the long time asymptotic expansion of the solution in any fixed space-time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Michael Borghese , Robert Jenkins , Kenneth D. T. -R. McLaughlin

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 suggest the method of derivation of Hamilton equations which describe the motion of solitons along non-uniform and time dependent large-scale background in case of wave dynamics described by the completely integrable equations in the…

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