Instability of Double-Periodic Waves in the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Frontiers in Physics

Dmitry E. Pelinovsky¹ 

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关键词: modulational instability;    double-periodic solutions;    Floquet spectrum;    nonlinear Schrödinger equation;    standing waves;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fphy.2021.599146

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

It is shown how to compute the instability rates for the double-periodic solutions to the cubic NLS (nonlinear Schrödinger) equation by using the Lax linear equations. The wave function modulus of the double-periodic solutions is periodic both in space and time coordinates; such solutions generalize the standing waves which have the time-independent and space-periodic wave function modulus. Similar to other waves in the NLS equation, the double-periodic solutions are spectrally unstable and this instability is related to the bands of the Lax spectrum outside the imaginary axis. A simple numerical method is used to compute the unstable spectrum and to compare the instability rates of the double-periodic solutions with those of the standing periodic waves.

【 授权许可】

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