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We study the modulational stability of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) using a time-dependent variational approach. Within this framework, we derive ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for the time evolution of the amplitude…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

The propagation of soliton waves is simulated through splices in optical fibers, in which fluctuations of dielectric parameters occur. The mathematical modeling of these local fluctuations of dielectric properties of fibers was performed by…

We present a detailed analysis of the modulational instability (MI) of ground-state bright solitary solutions of two incoherently coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. Varying the relative strength of cross-phase and self-phase effects…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitry V. Skryabin , William J. Firth

A generalization of the Bardeen formalism to the case of warped geometries is presented. The system determining the gauge-invariant fluctuations of the metric induced by the scalar fluctuations of the brane is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-18 Massimo Giovannini

General-relativistic stable spacetimes can be made unstable under the presence of certain nonminimally coupled free scalar fields. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of linear scalar-field perturbations in spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-11 Raissa F. P. Mendes , George E. A. Matsas , Daniel A. T. Vanzella

We study the effects of noise on stationary pulse solutions (bumps) in spatially extended neural fields. The dynamics of a neural field is described by an integrodifferential equation whose integral term characterizes synaptic interactions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-15 Zachary P. Kilpatrick , Bard Ermentrout

This work investigates radial solutions for nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger equations driven by multiplicative noise. Leveraging radial deterministic and stochastic Strichartz estimates, we establish local well-posedness in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Ao Zhang , Yanjie Zhang , Jinqiao Duan

This paper contains a detailed study of the properties of a simple model attempting to explain dark energy as originated from quantum fluctuations of a light spectator scalar field in inflation. In [1] we recently outlined how Starobinsky's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Enis Belgacem , Tomislav Prokopec

We prove that the stochastic and standard field-theoretical approaches produce exactly the same results for the amount of light massive scalar field fluctuations generated during inflation in the leading order of the slow-roll…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-10 F. Finelli , G. Marozzi , A. A. Starobinsky , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

We present a stochastic approach to calculate the full statistics of classical voltage fluctuations across an arbitrary, nonlinear, dissipative device embedded in a circuit in the presence of a bias. We show how the feedback resulting from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Lucas Désoppi , Bertrand Reulet

We consider fluctuations in a perfect irrotational fluid coupled to gravity in an Einstein static universe background. We show that the homogeneous linear perturbations of the scalar and metric fluctuations in the Einstein static universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Losic , W. G. Unruh

We investigate one-dimensional transverse modulational instability in a non local medium excited with a spatially incoherent source. Employing undoped nematic liquid crystals in a planar pre-tilted configuration, we investigate the role of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Marco Peccianti , Claudio Conti , Emiliano Alberici , Gaetano Assanto

It is well known in the literature that vacuum fluctuations can induce a random motion of particles which is sometimes called quantum Brownian motion or quantum stochastic motion. In this paper, we consider Lorentz Invariance Violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 M. A. Anacleto , C. H. G. Bessa , F. A. Brito , A. E. Mateus , E. Passos , J. R. L. Santos

We present detailed experimental study on noise-seeded intermodal modulation instability (IM-MI) in normal dispersion region of a conventional step-index fiber. The sharp refractive index contrast between core and cladding leads to large…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Partha Mondal , Shailendra K. Varshney

Optical solitons classically are stationary solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We perform a quantum field theoretic treatment by quantising a linearised fluctuation field around the classical soliton solution which can be…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-07 Sang-Shin Baak , Friedrich Koenig

We investigate scalar-induced stochastic gravitational waves from adiabatic curvature perturbations sourced by a spectator field via the modulated reheating mechanism. We consider a spectator scalar with Higgs-like couplings and inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Michele Benaco , Dimitrios Karamitros , Sami Nurmi , Kimmo Tuominen

The influence of quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field on the propagation of a polarized light wave in a nonlinear dielectric is investigated. It is shown that in some cases, the fluctuations couple to the optical nonlinearities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 V. A. De Lorenci , L. H. Ford

Some intriging connections between the properties of nonlinear noise driven systems and the nonlinear dynamics of a particular set of Hamilton's equation are discussed. A large class of Fokker-Planck Equations, like the Schr\"odinger…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Mark M. Millonas

Stochasticity is both exploited and controlled by cells. Although the intrinsic stochasticity inherent in biochemistry is relatively well understood, cellular variation, or 'noise', is predominantly generated by interactions of the system…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-18 Vahid Shahrezaei , Julien F Ollivier , Peter S Swain