Schrödinger equation driven by the square of a Gaussian field: instanton analysis in the large amplification limit

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Abstract: We study the tail of p(U), the probability distribution of U=vertpsi(0,L)vert2, for lnUgg1, psi(x,z) being the solution to partialzpsifraci2mablaperp2psi=gvertSvert2,psi, where S(x,z) is a complex Gaussian random field, z and x respectively are the axial and transverse coordinates, with 0lezleL, and both me0 and g>0 are real parameters. We perform the first instanton analysis of the corresponding Martin-Siggia-Rose action, from which it is found that the realizations of S concentrate onto long filamentary instantons, as lnUo+infty. The tail of p(U) is deduced from the statistics of the instantons. The value of g above which langleUangle diverges coincides with the one obtained by the completely different approach developed in Mounaix et al. 2006 {it Commun. Math. Phys.} {�f 264}~741. Numerical simulations clearly show a statistical bias of S towards the instanton for the largest sampled values of lnU. The high maxima -- or `hot spots' -- of vertS(x,z)vert2 for the biased realizations of S tend to cluster in the instanton region.









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