Instabilities of one-dimensional stationary solutions of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/1/006zbMATH Open1085.81041arXivnlin/0509041OpenAlexW3101285994MaRDI QIDQ3376074FDOQ3376074

Authors: Roger J. Thelwell, John D. Carter, Bernard Deconinck 

Publication date: 20 March 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation admits a large family of one-dimensional bounded traveling-wave solutions. All such solutions may be written in terms of an amplitude and a phase. Solutions with piecewise constant phase have been well studied previously. Some of these solutions were found to be stable with respect to one-dimensional perturbations. No such solutions are stable with respect to two-dimensional perturbations. Here we consider stability of the larger class of solutions whose phase is dependent on the spatial dimension of the one-dimensional wave form. We study the spectral stability of such nontrivial-phase solutions numerically, using Hill's method. We present evidence which suggests that all such nontrivial-phase solutions are unstable with respect to both one- and two-dimensional perturbations. Instability occurs in all cases: for both the elliptic and hyperbolic nonlinear Schrodinger equations, and in the focusing and defocusing case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0509041

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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