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We consider front solutions of the Swift-Hohenberg equation $\partial_t u= -(1+\partial_x^2)^2 u +\epsilon ^2 u -u^3$. These are traveling waves which leave in their wake a periodic pattern in the laboratory frame. Using renormalization…

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We study the existence and orbital stability/instability of periodic standing wave solutions for the Klein-Gordon-Schr\"odinger system with Yukawa and cubic interactions. We prove the existence of periodic waves depending on the Jacobian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-14 F. Natali , A. Pastor

Orbital stability property for weakly coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations is investigated. Different families of orbitally stable standing waves solutions will be found, generated by different classes of solutions of the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-26 Liliane Maia , Eugenio Montefusco , Benedetta Pellacci

In the present work we consider the subject of dark fractional solitary waves in the realm of generalized (fractional) forms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. While earlier studies have examined such states in the realm of real…

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We analyze the existence and stability of localized solutions in the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation with a combination of competing self-focusing cubic and defocusing quintic onsite nonlinearities. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , J. D. Talley , C. Chong , B. A. Malomed

In this paper we consider the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. In particular, we resolve the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

In this paper we consider stationary solutions to the nonlinear one-dimensional Schroedinger equation with a periodic potential and a Stark-type perturbation. In the limit of large periodic potential the Stark-Wannier ladders of the linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Andrea Sacchetti

The existence of compactons in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the presence of fast periodic time modulations of the nonlinearity is demonstrated. In the averaged DNLS equation the resulting effective inter-well tunneling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Kh. Abdullaev , P. G. Kevrekidis , M. Salerno

Black solitons are identical in the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with intensity-dependent dispersion and the cubic defocusing NLS equation. We prove that the intensity-dependent dispersion introduces new properties in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Michael Plum

We study a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with logarithmic nonlinearity on a star graph $\mathcal{G}$. At the vertex an interaction occurs described by a boundary condition of delta type with strength $\alpha\in \mathbb{R}$. We…

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Using the Fermi Golden Rule analysis developed in several results by the first author, we prove asymptotic stability of asymmetric nonlinear bound states bifurcating from linear bound states for a quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Scipio Cuccagna , Jeremy L. Marzuola

We demonstrate that stabilization of solitons of the multidimensional Schrodinger equation with a cubic nonlinearity may be achieved by a suitable periodic control of the nonlinear term. The effect of this control is to stabilize the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaspar D. Montesinos , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Pedro Torres

By a refinement of the technique used by Johnson and Zumbrun to show stability under localized perturbations, we show that spectral stability implies nonlinear modulational stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions of reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mathew Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

In the present paper we consider the coupled system of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with the fractional Laplacian \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^\alpha u_1 & = \lambda_1u_1+f_1(u_1)+\partial_1F(u_1,u_2)\ \ \mathrm{in}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Santosh Bhattarai

The discrete self-trapping equation (DST) represents an useful model for several properties of one-dimensional nonlinear molecular crystals. The modulational instability of DST equation is discussed from a statistical point of view,…

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The modulational instability of spatially uniform states in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is examined in the presence of higher-order dissipation. The study is motivated by results on the effects of three-body recombination in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed

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Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Kristelle Roidot , Norbert Mauser

We consider the stationary solutions for a class of Schroedinger equations with a symmetric double-well potential and a nonlinear perturbation. Here, in the semiclassical limit we prove that the reduction to a finite-mode approximation give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Reika Fukuizumi , Andrea Sacchetti

We consider a Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation with a very general non linear term and with a trapping $\delta $ potential on the line. We then discuss the asymptotic behavior of all its small solutions, generalizing a recent result by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Scipio Cuccagna , Masaya Maeda