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The effect of the modulation instability on the propagation of solitary waves along one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is revisited. A self-contained quasicontinuum approximation is developed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-08-21 E. Arevalo

We consider numerical instability that can be observed in simulations of localized solutions of the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) by a split-step method where the linear part of the evolution is solved by a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-10-15 Taras I. Lakoba

In this paper, we analyze the long-time dynamics of small solutions to the $1d$ cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with a trapping potential. We show that every small solution will decompose into a small solitary wave and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Gong Chen

The instabilities of the nontrivial phase elliptic solutions in a repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a periodic potential are investigated. Based on the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with an elliptic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-05-02 Wen-Rong Sun , Jin-Hua Li , Lei Liu , P. G. Kevrekidis

We describe a mechanism that results in the nonlinear instability of stationary states even in the case where the stationary states are linearly stable. This instability is due to the nonlinearity-induced coupling of the linearization's…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , A. Saxena

We consider the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in higher dimension with Dirichlet boundary conditions and with a non-local smoothing nonlinearity. We prove the existence of small amplitude periodic solutions. In the fully resonant case we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-24 Guido Gentile , Michela Procesi

We study the two dimensional non-linear Schr\"odinger equation with two types of exponential non-linearities. It is well-known by a work of Ruf - Sani, that such models support solitary wave solutions, which are solutions of some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Hichem Hajaiej , Atanas G. Stefanov

We examine the modulational and parametric instabilities arising in a non-autonomous, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation setting. The principal motivation for our study stems from the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , 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

In this paper, we prove stability or instability of solitons for the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation at every frequency. The monotonicity conjecture raised by Killip, Oh, Pocovnicu and Visan is resolved. We introduce and solve…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Jian Zhang , Shuihui Zhu

The parametrically driven, damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation has two cn- and two dn-wave solutions. We show that one pair of the cn and dn solutions is unstable for any combination of the driver's strength, dissipation coefficient and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-01-04 I. V. Barashenkov , M. A. Molchan

In this work, we study the existence and orbital (in)stability of certain standing-wave solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a looping-edge graph $\mathcal{G}$, consisting of a circle and a finite number…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jaime Angulo Pava , Alexander Munoz

We revisit the topic of the existence and azimuthal modulational stability of solitary vortices (alias vortex solitons) in the two-dimensional (2D) cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. We develop a semi-analytical approach,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-11 R. M. Caplan , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

In this paper, classical small perturbations against a stationary solution of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with the general form of nonlinearity are examined. It is shown that in order to obtain correct (in particular, conserved over…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Mikhail N. Smolyakov

Periodic waves of the one-dimensional cubic defocusing NLS equation are considered. Using tools from integrability theory, these waves have been shown in [Bottman, Deconinck, and Nivala, 2011] to be linearly stable and the Floquet-Bloch…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Thierry Gallay , Dmitry Pelinovsky

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

The spatially periodic breather solutions (SPBs) of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, prominent in modeling rogue waves, are unstable. In this paper we numerically investigate the effects of nonlinear dissipation and higher order…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-15 C. M. Schober , A. Islas

We consider the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLSE) in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self interaction $\frac{g^2}{\kappa+1} (\psi^\star \psi)^{\kappa+1}$ in the presence of the external forcing terms of the form $r e^{-i(kx +…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-30 Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Niurka R. Quintero , Franz G. Mertens , Avadh Saxena

In this work, we investigate the existence and orbital (in)stability of several branches of standing--wave solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a looping--edge graph $\mathcal{G}$, consisting of a circle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jaime Angulo Pava , Alexander Muñoz

We investigate the properties of standing waves to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential on the half-line. We first establish the existence of standing waves. Then, by a variational characterization of the ground…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Elek Csobo