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The formation of extreme localizations in nonlinear dispersive media can be explained and described within the framework of nonlinear evolution equations, such as the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS). Within the class of exact NLS…

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The nonlinear stage of modulational instability in optical fibers induced by a wide and easily accessible class of localized perturbations is studied using the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. It is showed that the development of associated…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-14 Matteo Conforti , Sitai Li , Gino Biondini , Stefano Trillo

We report results of systematic simulations of the dynamics of solitons in the framework of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE), which includes the harmonic-oscillator (HO) potential and a random potential. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-30 Qian-Yong Chen , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed

We study a spherical, self-gravitating fluid model, which finds applications in cosmic structure formation. We argue that since the system features nonlinearity and gravity-induced dispersion, the emergence of solitons becomes possible. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-21 G. N. Koutsokostas , S. Sypsas , O. Evnin , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We investigate analytically, numerically, and experimentally the modulational instability in a layered, cubically-nonlinear (Kerr) optical medium that consists of alternating layers of glass and air. We model this setting using a nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Centurion , Mason A. Porter , Ye Pu , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , Demetri Psaltis

We discuss the behavior of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLSE) as they interact with complex potentials, using a four parameter variational approximation based on a dissipation functional formulation of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-21 Franz G. Mertens , Fred Cooper , Edward Arevalo , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena , A. R. Bishop

The modulational instability of broadband optical pulses in a four-state atomic system is investigated. In particular, starting from a recently derived generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, a wave-kinetic equation is derived. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , R. Bingham , J. T. Mendonca

We apply the method of modulation equations to numerically solve the NLS with multichannel dynamics, given by a trapped localized state and radiation. This approach employs the modulation theory of Soffer-Weinstein, which gives a system of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Avy Soffer , Xiaofei Zhao

We study the nonlinear stage of the modulation instability of a condensate in the framework of the focusing Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation. We find a general N-solitonic solution of the focusing NLSE in the presence of a condensate by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-08-09 V. E. Zakharov , A. A. Gelash

In the framework of the focusing Nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation we study numerically the nonlinear stage of the modulation instability (MI) of the condensate. As expected, the development of the MI leads to formation of "integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-09-15 D. S. Agafontsev , V. E. Zakharov

We introduce a complete analytical and numerical study of the modulational instability process in a system governed by a canonical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation involving local, arbitrary nonlinear responses to the applied field. In…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-08 David Novoa , Daniele Tommasini , José A. Nóvoa-López

The stability and dynamical properties of the so-called resonant nonlinear Schr\"odinger (RNLS) equation, are considered. The RNLS is a variant of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with the addition of a perturbation used to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-05 F. Williams , F. Tsitoura , T. P. Horikis , P. G. Kevrekidis

Understanding, predicting, and controlling physical processes often relies on the analysis of the dynamics of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this context, the present study offers an in-depth investigation into the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 J. M. Escorcia

The nonlocal nonlinear evolution equations describe phenomena in which wave evolution is influenced by local and nonlocal spatial and temporal variables. These equations have opened up a new wave of physically important nonlinear evolution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-27 M. D. Sreelakshmi , N. Sinthuja , N. Vishnu Priya , M. Senthilvelan

We study modulational instability of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice, which is modelled as a coupled discrete nonlinear Schr \"{o}dinger equation. The excitation spectrum and the modulational instability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Guang-Ri Jin , Chul Koo Kim , Kyun Nahm

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with dispersion averaged nonlinearity of saturated type is considered. Such a nonlocal NLS is of integro-differential type and it arises naturally in modeling fiber-optics communication systems with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Dirk Hundertmark , Young-Ran Lee , Tobias Ried , Vadim Zharnitsky

We use the inverse scattering transform and a diffusion approximation limit theorem to study the stability of soliton components of the solution of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger and Korteweg-de Vries equations under random perturbations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Ennio Fedrizzi

We consider multiple solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with a partial confinement, which is physically relevant to dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensate. Our study not only verifies the existence of positive ground…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Liying Shan , Wei Shuai , Leyun Wu

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

We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin