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In this note, we announce a general result resolving the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability, or stability with respect to localized perturbations, of periodic traveling-wave solutions of the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-22 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with an effect of viscosity is derived from a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation modified with viscosity using the method of multiple time-scales. It is well known that the plane-wave solution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-20 N. Karjanto , K. M. Tiong

We propose the modulation of dispersion to prevent collapse of planar pulsed beams which propagate in Kerr-type self-focusing optical media. As a result, we find a new type of two-dimensional spatio-temporal solitons stabilized by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Maria I. Rodas-Verde , Gaspar D. Montesinos , Humberto Michinel , Victor M. Perez-Garcia

We study the properties of modulational instability and discrete breathers arising in a quasi-one-dimensional discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equation with Lee-Huang-Yang corrections. Conditions for modulation instability and instability regions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-01 Sherzod R. Otajonov , Bakhram A. Umarov , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev

The modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting spatially incoherent Stokes waves is analyzed. Starting from a pair of nonlinear Schroedinger equations, we derive a coupled set of wave-kinetic equations by using the Wigner transform…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo

In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability under localized perturbations of spectrally stable time-periodic source defects of reaction-diffusion systems. Consisting of a core that emits periodic wave trains to each side, source defects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Margaret Beck , Toan T. Nguyen , Björn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

The intrinsic nonlinearity is the most remarkable characteristic of the Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) systems. Many studies have been done on atomic BECs with time- and space- modulated nonlinearities, while there is few work considering…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-24 Yu-Qin Yao , Ji Li , Wei Han , Deng-Shan Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

We investigate the impact of nonlocality, owing to diffusive behavior, on transverse instabilities of a dark stripe propagating in a defocusing cubic medium. The nonlocal response turns out to have a strongly stabilizing effect both in the…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-02 Andrea Armaroli , Andrea Fratalocchi , Stefano Trillo

The Global Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) is investigated for a configuration in which the rotation frequency changes only in a narrow transition region. If the vertical wavelength of the unstable mode is of the same order or smaller…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Pino , S. M. Mahajan

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 demonstrate, analytically and numerically, that the ferromagnetic phase of the spinor Bose-Einstein condenstate may experience modulational instability of the ground state leading to a fragmentation of the spin domains. Together with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicholas P. Robins , Weiping Zhang , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Yuri S Kivshar

We consider the modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water, which are described by a pair of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations. We derive a nonlinear dispersion relation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , I. Kourakis , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo

We consider (2+1)-dimensional beams, whose transverse size may be comparable to or smaller than the carrier wavelength, on the basis of an extended version of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation derived from the Maxwell`s equations. As…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Malomed , K. Marinov , D. Pushkarov , A. Shivarova

We investigate strongly nonlinear stationary gravity waves which experience refraction due to a thin vertical shear layer of horizontal background wind. The velocity amplitude of the waves is of the same order of magnitude as the background…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-14 Mark Schlutow , Georg S. Völker

In this paper intermodal modulational instability (IM-MI) is analyzed in a multimode fiber where several spatial and polarization modes propagate. The coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations describing the modal evolution in the fiber…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Guasoni

The optical responses of solids are typically understood to be local in space. Whether locality holds for the optical response of a macroscopic quantum system has, however, been largely unexplored. Here, we use multidimensional coherent…

A global mode is shown to be unstable to non-axisymmetric perturbations in a differentially rotating Keplerian disk containing either vertical or azimuthal magnetic fields. In an unstratified cylindrical disk model, using both global…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-13 Fatima Ebrahimi , Matthew Pharr

Isolated, undamped geodesic-acoustic-mode (GAM) packets have been demonstrated to obey a (focusing) nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) [E. Poli, Phys. Plasmas 2021]. This equation predicts susceptibility of GAM packets to the…

We numerically investigate the properties of speckle patterns formed by nonlinear point scatterers. We show that, in the weak localization regime, dynamical instability appears, eventually leading to chaotic behavior of the system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Benoit Gremaud , Thomas Wellens

The linear stability of global non-axisymmetric modes in differentially rotating, magnetized, non-ideal plasma is crucial for understanding turbulence and transport phenomena. We investigate the competition between the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Alexander Haywood , Fatima Ebrahimi