Abstract:
We use a statistical approach to investigate the modulational instability (Benjamin–Feir instability) in several nonlinear discrete systems: the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation, the Ablowitz–Ladik equation, and the discrete deformable NLS equation. We derive a kinetic equation for the two-point correlation function and use a Wigner–Moyal transformation to write it in a mixed space-wave-number representation. We perform a linear stability analysis of the resulting equation and discuss the obtained integral stability condition using several forms of the initial unperturbed spectrum (Lorentzian and δ-spectrum). We compare the results with the continuum limit (the NLS equation) and with previous results.
Citation:
D. Grecu, A. Visinescu, “Statistical Approach to Modulational Instability in Nonlinear Discrete Systems”, TMF, 144:1 (2005), 56–63; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 144:1 (2005), 927–934
This publication is cited in the following 5 articles:
Grecu D., Carstea A.S., Grecu A.T., Visinescu A., “Statistical Approach of Modulation Instability in the Class of NLS Equations”, Rom. J. Phys., 61:1-2 (2016), 124–134
Visinescu A., Grecu D., “Statistical Approach of Modulational Instability Beyond Gaussian Approximation”, Xxth International Conference on Integrable Systems and Quantum Symmetries (Isqs-20), Journal of Physics Conference Series, 411, eds. Burdik C., Navratil O., Posta S., IOP Publishing Ltd, 2013, 012029
Grecu, AT, “Statistical Approach of Modulational Instability in Cylindrical/Spherical NLS Equation”, Romanian Reports in Physics, 61:3 (2009), 467
Grecu A.T., De Nicola S., Fedele R., Grecu D., Visinescu A., “Modulational Instability of Cylindrical and Spherical NLS Equations. Statistical Approach”, 7th International Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1203, 2009, 1239–1244
Grecu AT, Grecu D, Visinescu A, “Statistical approach of modulational instability in the class of derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equations”, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 46:5 (2007), 1190–1204