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We consider the evolution of a tight binding wave packet propagating in a fluctuating periodic potential. If the fluctuations stem from a stationary Markov process satisfying certain technical criteria, we show that the square amplitude of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Eman Hamza , Yang Kang , Jeffrey Schenker

We formulate the notion of the classical Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) reaction diffusion equation associated with a homogeneous conservative fragmentation process and study its traveling waves. Specifically, we establish…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-30 J. Berestycki , S. C. Harris , A. E. Kyprianou

We study Maxwell's equations in random media with small fluctuations of the electric permittivity. We consider a setup where the waves propagate toward a preferred direction, called range. We decompose the electromagnetic wave field in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We present a method to control the two-dimensional shape of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems, as e.g. interfaces and excitation pulses. Control signals that realize a pre-given wave shape are determined analytically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-12-15 Jakob Löber , Steffen Martens , Harald Engel

This paper is devoted to propagation phenomena for a reaction-diffusion-advection equation in a one-dimensional heterogeneous environment, where heterogeneity is reflected by the nonlinearity term -- being KPP type on $(-\infty, -L]$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Xing Liang , Lei Zhang , Mingmin Zhang

We study anomalous diffusion for one-dimensional systems described by a generalized Langevin equation. We show that superdiffusion can be classified in slow superdiffusion and fast superdiffusion. For fast superdiffusion we prove that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ismael V. L. Costa , Rafael Morgado , Marcos V. B. T. Lima , Fernando A. Oliveira

We analyze the dynamics of pattern forming fronts which propagate into an unstable state, and whose dynamics is of the pulled type, so that their asymptotic speed is equal to the linear spreading speed v^*. We discuss a method that allows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ute Ebert , Willem Spruijt , Wim van Saarloos

In this paper we consider a bistable reaction-diffusion equation in unbounded domains and we investigate the existence of propagation phenomena, possibly partial, in some direction or, on the contrary, of blocking phenomena. We start by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Henri Berestycki , Juliette Bouhours , Guillemette Chapuisat

This paper is concerned with the spatial propagation of nonlocal dispersal equations with bistable or multistable nonlinearity in exterior domains. We obtain the existence and uniqueness of an entire solution which behaves like a planar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Shao-Xia Qiao , Wan-Tong Li , Jian-Wen Sun

Closed-form, normalizable solutions of Dirac's equation propagating within a semi-infinite cylindrical waveguide are obtained in terms of ordinary and modified Bessel functions. These relativistic wave packets induce quantum backflow on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Siddhant Das

Propagation of traveling fronts in three-dimensional reaction-diffusion media with spatially modulated cross-section is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Applying appropriate perturbation techniques leads first…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-26 S. Martens , J. Löber , H. Engel

This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

A study of a stable front propagating in a turbulent medium is presented. The front is generated through a reaction-diffusion equation, and the turbulent medium is statistically modeled using a Langevin equation. Numerical simulations…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 A. C. Marti , F. Sagues , J. M. Sancho

We describe the accelerated propagation wave arising from a non-local reaction-diffusion equation. This equation originates from an ecological problem, where accelerated biological invasions have been documented. The analysis is based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Nathanaël Berestycki , Clément Mouhot , Gaël Raoul

We address the problem of a front propagation in chains with a bi-stable nondegenerate on-site potential and a nonlinear gradient coupling. For a generic nonlinear coupling, one encounters a special regime of transitions, characterized by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-14 I. B. Shiroky , O. V. Gendelman

We investigate in this paper a scalar reaction diffusion equation with a nonlinear reaction term depending on x-ct. Here, c is a prescribed parameter modelling the speed of climate change and we wonder whether a population will survive or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Juliette Bouhours , Gregoire Nadin

We study 2D fronts propagating up a co-moving reaction rate gradient in finite number reaction-diffusion systems. We show that in a 2D rectangular channel, planar solutions to the deterministic mean-field equation are stable with respect to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Scott Wylie , Herbert Levine , David A. Kessler

We consider a stochastically perturbed reaction diffusion equation in a bounded interval, with boundary conditions imposing the two stable phases at the endpoints. We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the front separating the two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 L. Bertini , S. Brassesco , P. Buttà

The propagation of nonlinear waves in a lattice of repelling particles is studied theoretically and experimentally. A simple experimental setup is proposed, consisting in an array of coupled magnetic dipoles. By driving harmonically the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-07-19 A. Mehrem , N. Jiménez , L. Salmerón-Contreras , X. García-Andrés , L. M. García-Raffi , R. Picó , V. Sánchez-Morcillo

In the first part of the article, we study one-dimensional noninteracting fermions in the continuum and in the presence of the repulsive inverse power law potential, with an emphasis on the Wigner function in the semiclassical limit. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-12 Gabriel Gouraud