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We elaborate a new solution for the problem of stable propagation of transversely localized vortex beams in homogeneous optical media with self-focusing Kerr nonlinearity. Stationary nonlinear Bessel-vortex states are stabilized against…

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The interaction of optical beams in bi-dispersive nonlinear media with self-focusing nonlinearity is numerically investigated. Under proper conditions, the interaction of spatially separated beams can lead to the creation of two prominent…

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The influence of the low-frequency gravitational waves coupled with electromagnetic waves in material media on the test masses is investigated. The propagation of coupled gravitational waves in rarefied gases and cold magnetized plasma is…

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This paper describes some interesting properties of waves in, and oscillations of, the interstellar medium in the direction normal to the plane of the Galaxy. Our purpose is to examine possible reasons for four observed phenomena: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael A. Walters , Donald P. cox

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

We investigate the possibility of creating X-waves, or localized wave packets, in resonantly excited exciton-polariton superfluids. We demonstrate the existence of X-wave traveling solutions in the coupled exciton-photon system past the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 Oksana Voronych , Adam Buraczewski , Michał Matuszewski , Magdalena Stobińska

Space-time wave packets can propagate invariantly in free space with arbitrary group velocity thanks to the spatio-temporal correlation. Here it is proved that the space-time wave packets are stable in dispersive media as well and free from…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Hao He , Cheng Guo , Meng Xiao

We review experimental investigation on spatial shock waves formed by the self-defocusing action of a laser beam propagation in a disordered thermal nonlinear media.

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Gentilini , N. Ghofraniha , E. DeRe , C. Conti

A theory of pulsar radio emission generation, in which the observed waves are produced directly by maser-type plasma instabilities operating at the anomalous cyclotron-Cherenkov resonance $\omega- k_{\parallel} v_{\parallel} + \omega_B/…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maxim Lyutikov , Roger D. Blandford , George Machabeli

Context. We propose that the X-ray filaments emerging from selected bow shock pulsar wind nebulae are due to a charge-separated outflow of electrons and/or positrons escaping the nebula and propagating along the local Galactic magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Barbara Olmi , Elena Amato , Rino Bandiera , Pasquale Blasi

Significant gravitational wave emission is expected from gamma-ray bursts arising from compact stellar mergers, and possibly also from bursts associated with fast-rotating massive stellar core collapses. These models have in common a high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shiho Kobayashi , Peter Meszaros

We have investigated the modulational instability (MI) in a negative index media (NIM) using a new generalized model describing the pulse propagation in a negative index material embedded into a Kerr medium. We have found that one could…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Amarendra K. Sarma , Manirupa Saha

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 (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…

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We demonstrate a direct one-to-one correspondence between nonlinear optical fields in defocusing Kerr media and wave functions in weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates or quantum fluids. Based on this correspondence, we propose the…

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Frequency dependence of pulsar linear polarization is investigated by simulations of emission and propagation processes. Linearly polarized waves are generated through curvature radiation by relativistic particles streaming along curved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 P. F. Wang , C. Wang , J. L. Han

Rapidly rotating Neutron Stars in Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) may be an interesting source of Gravitational Waves (GWs). In particular, several modes of stellar oscillation may be driven unstable by GW emission, and this can lead to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Brynmor Haskell , Nathalie Degenaar , Wynn C. G. Ho

We have investigated the nonlinear amplitude vector equation governing the evolution of optical pulses in optical and UV region. We are normalizing this equation for the cases of different and equal transverse and longitudinal size of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 L. M. Kovachev , L. M. Ivanov , D. Y. Dakova , L. I. Pavlov , K. L. Kovachev

The system of cavity polaritons driven by a plane electromagnetic wave is found to undergo the spontaneous breaking of spatial symmetry, which results in a lifted phase locking with respect to the driving field and, consequently, in the…

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