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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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For an isotropic and homogeneous nonlinear left-handed materials, for which the effective medium approximation is valid, Maxwell's equations for electric and magnetic fields lead naturally, within the slowly varying envelope approximation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-03-09 N. Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

We study various properties of solutions of an extended nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (ENLS) equation, which arises in the context of geometric evolution problems -- including vortex filament dynamics -- and governs propagation of short pulses…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-07-20 V. Achilleos , S. Diamantidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , N. I. Karachalios , P. G. Kevrekidis

The Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is widely used in everywhere of natural science. Various nonlinear excitations of the NLS equation have been found by many methods. However, except for the soliton-soliton interactions, it is very…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-07-16 S. Y. Lou , Xue-Ping Cheng , Xiao-Yan Tang

The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation can be derived as a formal approximation equation describing the envelopes of slowly modulated spatially and temporarily oscillating wave packet-like solutions to the ion Euler-Poisson equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Huimin Liu , Xueke Pu

We introduce and systematically investigate the generation of dispersive shock waves, which arise naturally in physical settings such as optical waveguide arrays and superfluids confined within optical lattices. The underlying physically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-13 Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

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

The nonlinear theory of amplitude modulation of electrostatic wave envelopes in a collisionless electron-positron (EP) pair plasma is studied by using a set of Vlasov-Poisson equations in the context of Tsallis' $q$-nonextensive statistics.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 D. Chatterjee , A. P. Misra

We introduce a new notion of linear stability for standing waves of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) which requires not only that the spectrum of the linearization be real, but also that the generalized kernel be not degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-09 Scipio Cuccagna

We present a class of nonlinear Schroedinger equations (NLSEs) describing, in the mean field approximation, systems of interacting particles. This class of NLSEs is obtained generalizing expediently the approach proposed in Ref. [G.K. Phys.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Kaniadakis , A. M. Scarfone

In the wind-driven wave regime, the Miles mechanism gives an estimate of the growth rate of the waves under the effect of wind. We consider the case where this growth rate, normalised with respect to the frequency of the carrier wave, is of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Maura Brunetti , Nadège Marchiando , Nicolas Berti , Jérôme Kasparian

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-01 Amin Chabchoub , Mathias Fink

The nonlinear, cubic Schrodinger (NLS) equation has numerous physical applications, but in general is very difficult to solve. Nonetheless, under certain circumstances parameters quantifying the width, momentum and energy of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 James E. Lidsey

We consider the evolution of ultra-short optical pulses in linear and nonlinear media. For the linear case, we first show that the initial-boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations in which a pulse is injected into a quiescent medium…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Chung , C. K. R. T. Jones , T. Schaefer , C. E. Wayne

This paper considers the question of global in time existence and asymptotic behavior of small-data solutions of nonlinear dispersive equations with a real potential $V$. The main concern is treating nonlinearities whose degree is low…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Pierre Germain , Zaher Hani , Samuel Walsh

A statistical model of self-organization in a generic class of one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations on a bounded interval is developed. The main prediction of this model is that the statistically preferred state for such…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard Jordan , Bruce Turkington , Craig Zirbel

The nonlinear theory of Landau damping of electrostatic wave envelopes (WEs) is revisited in a quantum electron-positron (EP) pair plasma. Starting from a Wigner-Moyal equation coupled to the Poisson equation and applying the multiple scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 D. Chatterjee , A. P. Misra

We study the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with bounded initial data which does not vanish at infinity. Examples include periodic, quasi-periodic and random initial data. On the lattice we prove that solutions are polynomially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Benjamin Dodson , Avraham Soffer , Thomas Spencer

We consider a model equation from [14] that captures important properties of the water wave equation. We give a new proof of the fact that wave packet solutions of this equation are approximated by the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Patrick Cummings , C. Eugene Wayne