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In this paper we introduce a one-dimensional model of coupled fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with a double-well potential applied to one component. This study examines ground state (GS) solitons, observing spontaneous symmetry…

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It is shown that magnetic islands generated by pressure-gradient-driven turbulence are common across a wide range of conditions. The interaction among turbulence, magnetic island and other large scale structures (the zonal flow and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Daniele Villa , Nicolas Dubuit , Olivier Agullo , Xavier Garbet

Surface waves on ferrofluids exposed to a dc-magnetic field exhibit a non-monotonic dispersion relation. The effect of a parametric driving on such waves is studied within suitable coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations. Due to the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 David Raitt , Hermann Riecke

Zonal jets are striking and beautiful examples of the propensity for geophysical turbulent flows to spontaneously self-organize into robust, large scale coherent structures. There exist many dynamical mechanisms for the formation of zonal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-24 F Bouchet , Antoine Venaille

Spin waves (SW) are the excitation of the spin system in a ferromagnetic condensed matter body. They are collective excitations of the electron system and, from a quasi-classical point of view, can be understood as a coherent precession of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 A. V. Chumak , H. Schultheiss

This work investigates the weakly nonlinear dynamics of internal shear layers and the mean zonal flow induced by the longitudinal libration of an inner core within a spherical shell. Building on the work of He et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Xu Chang , Jiyang He , Benjamin Favier , Stéphane Le Dizès

We study electrical excitation of nonlinear plasma waves in heterostructures with two-dimensional electron channels and with split gates, and the propagation of these waves using hydrodynamic equations for electron transport coupled with…

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We observe the dynamics of waves propagating on the surface of a ferrofluid under the influence of a spatially and temporarily modulated field. In particular, we excite plane waves by a travelling lamellar modulation of the magnetization.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Beetz , C. Gollwitzer , R. Richter , I. Rehberg

In analogy to gas-dynamical detonation waves, which consist of a shock with an attached exothermic reaction zone, we consider herein nonlinear traveling wave solutions, termed "jamitons," to the hyperbolic ("inviscid") continuum traffic…

In the present paper we consider the nonlinear interaction of high frequency intense electromagnetic (EM) beam with degenerate electron plasmas. In a slowly varying envelop approximation the beam dynamics is described by the couple of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 V. I. Berezhiani , Z. N. Osmanov , S. M. Mahajan , S. V. Mikeladze

Zonal flows are well known to arise spontaneously out of turbulence. We show that for statistically averaged equations of the stochastically forced generalized Hasegawa-Mima model, steady-state zonal flows and inhomogeneous turbulence fit…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Jeffrey B. Parker , John A. Krommes

We propose a method for the generation of trains of alternating bright solitons in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, using controlled emission of nonlinear matter-waves in the uncoupled regime with spatially-varying intra-species…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-01 V. A. Brazhnyi , David Novoa , Chandroth P. Jisha

Pinned solitons are a special class of nonlinear solutions created by a supersonically moving object in a fluid. They move with the same velocity as the moving object and thereby remain pinned to the object. A well known hydrodynamical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Garima Arora , P Bandyopadhyay , M G Hariprasad , A Sen

The formation of zonal flows from inhomogeneous drift-wave (DW) turbulence is often described using statistical theories derived within the quasilinear approximation. However, this approximation neglects wave--wave collisions. Hence, some…

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Linear and non-linear surface waves on a ferrofluid cylinder surrounding a current-carrying wire are investigated. Suppressing the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of the fluid column by the magnetic field of a sufficiently large current in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Rannacher , A. Engel

We investigate competition between two phase transitions of the second kind induced by the self-attractive nonlinearity, viz., self-trapping of the leaky modes, and spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of both fully trapped and leaky states.…

The generation of large-scale zonal flows by small-scale electrostatic drift waves in electron temperature gradient(ETG) driven turbulence model is considered. The generation mechanism is based on the modulational instability of a finite…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yu. A. Zaliznyak , A. I. Yakimenko , V. M. Lashkin

Motivated by the recent study on the quasiparticle-induced friction of solitons in superfluids, we theoretically study magnon-induced intrinsic friction of a domain wall in a one-dimensional ferromagnet. To this end, we start by obtaining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Se Kwon Kim , Oleg Tchernyshyov , Victor Galitski , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Domain walls (DWs) in ferroic materials, across which the order parameter abruptly changes its orientation, can host emergent properties that are absent in the bulk domains. Using a broadband ($10^6-10^{10}$ Hz) scanning impedance…

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