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We study the dispersion of Kelvin waves propagating along single- and half-quantum vortices in miscible two-component Bose-Einstein condensates based on the analysis of the Bogoloubov-de Genne equation. With the help of the interpolating…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-01 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Maki Okada , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

Optical pulses propagating in multimode optical fibers are affected by linear disorder and nonlinearity, and experience chaotic exchange of power among modes. On the other hand, complex systems can attain steady states characterized by…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-29 Mario Zitelli , Fabio Mangini , Stefan Wabnitz

Over past ten years a variety of jet-like phenomena were detected in the solar atmosphere, including plasma ejections over a range of coronal temperatures being observed as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray jets. We study the possibility…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. Zhelyazkov , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava

A nonlinear Schrodinger equation arising from light propagation down an inhomogeneous medium is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the non-linear term in the equation. In particular, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Marangell , C. K. R. T. Jones , H. Susanto

Electron-scale surface waves are shown to be unstable in the transverse plane of a shear flow in an initially unmagnetized plasma, unlike in the (magneto)hydrodynamics case. It is found that these unstable modes have a higher growth rate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 E. P. Alves , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

The existence of quantized vortices is a key feature of Bose-Einstein condensates. In equilibrium condensates only quantum vortices of unit topological charge are stable, due to the dynamical instabilities of multiply charged defects,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-19 Samuel N. Alperin , Natalia G. Berloff

We examine a one-dimensional nonlinear (Kerr) waveguide array which contains a single "void" waveguide where the nonlinearity is identically zero. We uncover a new family of nonlinear localized modes centered at or near the void, and their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-10-24 Cristian Mejía-Cortés , J. C. Cardona , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Mario. I. Molina

The perturbation theory based on the Riemann-Hilbert problem is developed for the modified nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation which describes the propagation of femtosecond optical pulses in nonlinear single-mode optical fibers. A detailed…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-31 V. S. Shchesnovich , E. V. Doktorov

This paper investigates the non-linear dynamics of horizontal shear instability in an incompressible, stratified and rotating fluid in the non-traditional $f$-plane, i.e. with the full Coriolis acceleration, using direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Camille Moisset , Paul Billant , Junho Park , Stéphane Mathis

We report on a three-dimensional MHD numerical experiment of a small scale coronal mass ejection (CME) -like eruption propagating though a non-magnetized solar atmosphere. We find that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) develops at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 P. Syntelis , P. Antolin

We study the interaction of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice with additional electromagnetic fields under Raman resonance condition. System of evolution equations describing ultra-short optical pulse propagation and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. I. Maimistov , E. V. Kazantseva

A relative motion of the normal and superfluid components of Helium II results in Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) at their common free surface. We found the exact solutions for the nonlinear stage of the development of that instability.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Nikolay M. Zubarev

We have carried out high resolution MHD simulations of the nonlinear evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz unstable flows in 2 1/2 dimensions. The modeled flows and fields were initially uniform except for a thin shear layer with a hyperbolic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. W. Jones , Joseph B. Gaalaas , Dongsu Ryu , Adam Frank

We examine the modulational and parametric instabilities arising in a non-autonomous, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation setting. The principal motivation for our study stems from the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

We investigate the effects of viscosity and heat conduction on the onset and growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) via an efficient discrete Boltzmann model. Technically, two effective approaches are presented to quantitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-02 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Chuandong Lin , Huilin Lai , Zhipeng Liu

In this letter, we investigate the quantum optical properties of driven-dissipative nonlinear systems in a cascade configuration. We show that pumping a nonlinear system with a state having a noncoherent statistics, can improve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Giuseppe Buonaiuto , Emiliano Cancellieri , David M. Whittaker

It is suggested that the wavelike character of the recently discovered 2.7-kiloparsec spatially and kinematically coherent complex of interstellar clouds in the solar neighborhood--the Radcliffe Wave--may be the result of a Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-19 Robert Fleck

Making use of a generalized quantum theory of paraxial light propagation where the radiation-axis and the temporal coordinates play exchanged roles, we discuss the potential of bulk nonlinear optical media in cavityless configurations for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-06 P. -É. Larré , I. Carusotto

We perform a linear analysis of the stability of a magnetized relativistic non-rotating cylindrical flow in the aproximation of zero thermal pressure, considering only the m = 1 mode. We find that there are two modes of instability:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Bodo , G. Mamatsashvili , P. Rossi , A. Mignone

A problem of the instability of an inhomogeneous axisymmetric plasma jet in a parallel magnetic field is solved. The jet boundary becomes, under certain conditions, unstable relative to magnetosonic oscillations (Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anatoly S. Leonovich