Dynamic dielectric response of a quantum wire superlattice in interaction with a nonlocal host medium

We study nonlocality effects of a bulk plasmalike dielectric medium on the plasmon spectrum of a one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire superlattice in interaction with the 3D nonlocal host bulk plasma, by carrying out a closed-form analytic determination of the inverse dielectric function κ for the joint nanostructure system within the random phase approximation (RPA), in which we treat nonlocality of the 1D superlattice in the RPA and that of the bulk medium in the hydrodynamic model. By examining the frequency poles of κ (i.e., the dispersions relations), we show analytically that coupled plasmon modes of the interacting 1D superlattice-3D nonlocal host are damped in high frequencies (damping is pronounced near resonance region) and that nonlocality of the host medium introduces nonlocal low frequency (real) modes into the spectrum, which have cutoff frequencies for finite wave vector values. In order to describe the impact of nonlocality effects more clearly, we also examine the spectrum numerically.     

FILAMENTATION INSTABILITY OF LASER BEAMS IN NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIA

The filamentation instability of laser beams propagating in nonlocal nonlinear media is investigated. It is shown that the filamentation instability can occur in weakly nonlocal self-focusing media for any degree of nonlocality, and in defocusing media for the input light intensity exceeding a threshold related to the degree of nonlocality. A linear stability analysis is used to predict the initial growth rate of the instability. It is found that the nonlocality tends to suppress filamentation instability in self-focusing media and to stimulate filamentation instability in self-defocusing media. Numerical simulations confirm the results of the linear stability analysis and disclose a recurrence phenomenon in nonlocal self-focusing media analogous to the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem.     

Modulated Wave Packets in DNA and Impact of Viscosity

We study the nonlinear dynamics of a DNA molecular system at physiological temperature in a viscous media by using the Peyrard-Bishop model. The nonlinear dynamics of the above system is shown to be governed by the discrete complex Cinzburg-Landau equation. In the non-viscous limit, the equation reduces to the nonlinear Schroedinger equation. Modulational instability criteria are derived for both the cases. On the basis of these criteria, numerical simulations are made, which confirm the analytical predictions. The planar wave solution used as the initial condition makes localized oscillations of base pairs and causes energy localization. The results also show that the viscosity of the solvent in the surrounding damps out the amplitude of wave patterns.     

Extending Newton's law from nonlocal-in-time kinetic energy

We study a new equation of motion derived from a context of classical Newtonian mechanics by replacing the kinetic energy with a form of nonlocal-in-time kinetic energy. It leads to a hypothetical extension of Newton's second law of motion. In a first stage the obtainable solution form is studied by considering an unknown value for the nonlocality time extent. This is done in relation to higher-order Euler-Lagrange equations and a Hamiltonian framework. In a second stage the free particle case and harmonic oscillator case are studied and compared with quantum mechanical results. For a free particle it is shown that the solution form is a superposition of the classical straight line motion and a Fourier series. We discuss the link with quanta interpretations made in Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillators. The discrete nature emerges from the continuous time setting through application of the least action principle. The harmonic oscillator case leads to energy levels that approximately correspond to the quantum harmonic oscillator levels. The solution to the extended Newton equation also admits a quantization of the nonlocality time extent, which is determined by the classical oscillator frequency. The extended equation suggests a new possible way for understanding the relationship between classical and quantum mechanics.     

A New Type Of Terahertz Frequency Range Instability of DC Current in “Thick” Ballistic Field-Effect Transistors

A new type of dc current instability in a ballistic field-effect transistor (FET) is proposed, which emerges due to the finite thickness of the 2D current-carrying channel. The physical origin of the instability in thick ballistic FETs is the nonlocality of the relation between the surface electron density and field potential. The instability arises at wavelengths of the order of the characteristic scale length of this nonlocality, which is determined by the FET geometry and vanishes for infinitesimal thickness of the current-carrying channel. The dispersion equation is derived and the domain of parameters under which the system becomes unstable is determined. Estimates show that this new type of instability is promising for driving a high-gain source of THz radiation.     

Time-Domain Scattering Modelling of Two-Dimensional Cylinder Located on a Rough Surface

Numerical modelling on the transient electromagnetic scattering by a two-dimensional （21）） cylinder located on a time-evolving rough surface is presented by using time-domain integral equations. The proposed special choice of a tapered Gauss pulse incident wave removes the truncation error from the rough surface. Additionally, a two-level averaging technique is utilized to overcome the instability from the time marching procedure of solving integral equations. Excellent correspondences between the surface current distributions, as well as the far-zone fields, computed by the proposed method and that obtained by the traditional method of moments associated with the inverse discrete Fourier transformation scheme demonstrate the accuracy of the modelling.     

Nonlinear waves in nonequilibrium systems of the oscillatory type,part I

Nonlinear waves in mathematical models of nonequilibrium spatially uniform media with the oscillatory instability of the trivial state are considered. The models are based on the generalized Ginsburg-Landau equations. For the long-wave system, i.e. that described by two-component reaction-diffusion equations, we obtain the full stability conditions for monochromatic plane travelling waves. The basic part of the paper is devoted to the short-wave system which can be described by reaction-diffusion equations with not less than three components or by a two-component system with residual nonlocality. We construct the Ginsburg-Landau equation for this system, and we find its general quasistationary one-dimensional solution which is a travelling wave modulated by a travelling envelope wave. The stability of this solution is investigated with the especial emphasis on different important particular cases. The obtained results are compared with experimental observations of different waves on fronts of detonation and non-gaseous combustion (which also are characterized by the oscillatory short-wave instability of the trivial state), and the qualitative agreement between theoretical and experimental results is demonstrated.     

Interplay between nonlocality and nonlinearity in nematic liquid crystals

Spatial nonlocality has a crucial role in the optical response of bulk liquid crystals. With specific reference to one-dimensional modulation instability, we demonstrate the tuning of transverse nonlocality in the nonlinear response of nematics.     

Parametric instabilities in single-walled carbon nanotubes

Parametric instabilities induced by the coupling excitation between the high frequency quantum Langmuir waves and the low frequency quantum ion-acoustic waves in single-walled carbon nanotubes are studied with a quantum Zakharov model. By linearizing the quantum hydrodynamic equations, we get the dispersion relations for the high frequency quantum Langmuir wave and the low frequency quantum ion-acoustic wave. Using two-time scale method, we obtain the quantum Zaharov model in the cylindrical coordinates. Decay instability and four-wave instability are discussed in detail. It is shown that the carbon nanotube＇s radius, the equilibrium discrete azimuthal quantum number, the perturbed discrete azimuthal quantum number, and the quantum parameter all play a crucial role in the instabilities.     

Internal vibrations of nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger soliton

We prove that the nonlocality is a source of the internal mode generation in a bright soliton of the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation, at least in the weak nonlocality limit. The internal mode bifurcates from the edge of the continuous spectrum of the linearized eigenvalue problem into the gap of this spectrum. A dependence of the internal mode propagation constant position in the gap on the nonlocality rate is established. It is shown that the vibration amplitude of the soliton decays inversely proportional to the propagation distance, as in the local models.     

Modulational instability and spatial structures of the Ablowitz-Ladik equation

Spatial structures as a result of a modulational instability are obtained in the integrable discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation (Ablowitz-Ladik equation). Discrete slow space variables are used in a general setting and the related finite differences are constructed. Analyzing the ensuing equation, we derive the modulational instability criterion from the discrete multiple scales approach. Numerical simulations in agreement with analytical studies lead to the disintegrations of the initial modulated waves into a train of pulses.     

Interference, Reduced Action, and Trajectories

Instead of investigating the interference between two stationary, rectilinear wave functions in a trajectory representation by examining the trajectories of the two rectilinear wave functions individually, we examine a dichromatic wave function that is synthesized from the two interfering wave functions. The physics of interference is contained in the reduced action for the dichromatic wave function. As this reduced action is a generator of the motion for the dichromatic wave function, it determines the dichromatic wave function’s trajectory. The quantum effective mass renders insight into the behavior of the trajectory. The trajectory in turn renders insight into quantum nonlocality.     

Intramolecular vibrations and noise effects on pattern formation in a molecular helix

Modulational instability in a biexciton molecular chain is addressed. We show that the model can be reduced to a set of three coupled equations: two nonlinear Schr?dinger equations and a Boussinesq equation. The linear stability analysis of continuous wave solutions of the coupled systems is performed and the growth rate of instability is found numerically. Simulations of the full discrete systems reveal some behaviors of modulational instability, since wave patterns are observed for the excitons and the phonon spectrum. We also take the effect of thermal fluctuations into account and we numerically study both the stability and the instability of the plane waves under 300 K. The plane wave is found to be stable under modulation, but displays a gradual increase of the wave amplitudes. Under modulation, the same behaviors are observed and wave patterns are found to resist thermal fluctuations, which is in agreement with earlier research on localized structure stability under thermal noise.     

Nonautonomous Hamiltonians

We present a theory of resonances for a class of nonautonomous Hamiltonians to treat the structural instability of spatially localized and time-periodic solutions associated with an unperturbed autonomous Hamiltonian. The mechanism of instability is radiative decay, due to resonant coupling of the discrete modes to the continuum modes by the time-dependent perturbation. This results in a slow transfer of energy from the discrete modes to the continuum. The rate of decay of solutions is slow and hence the decaying bound states can be viewed as metastable. The ideas are closely related to the authors' work on (i) a time-dependent approach to the instability of eigenvalues embedded in the continuous spectra, and (ii) resonances, radiation damping, and instability in Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equations. The theory is applied to a general class of Schrödinger equations. The phenomenon of ionization may be viewed as a resonance problem of the type we consider and we apply our theory to find the rate of ionization, spectral line shift, and local decay estimates for such Hamiltonians.     

Effects of reduced discrete coupling on filament tension in excitable media

Wave propagation in the heart has a discrete nature, because it is mediated by discrete intercellular connections via gap junctions. Although effects of discreteness on wave propagation have been studied for planar traveling waves and vortexes (spiral waves) in two dimensions, its possible effects on vortexes (scroll waves) in three dimensions are not yet explored. In this article, we study the effect of discrete cell coupling on the filament dynamics in a generic model of an excitable medium. We find that reduced cell coupling decreases the line tension of scroll wave filaments and may induce negative filament tension instability in three-dimensional excitable lattices.     

Modulational instability in one-dimensional saturable waveguide arrays: Comparison with Kerr nonlinearity

Discrete modulational instability within the first band of uniform one-dimensional waveguide arrays possessing a saturable self-defocusing nonlinearity is investigated in detail within the coupled mode approach. Explicit analytical results for both the threshold and the maximal gain of instability are compared with the corresponding data from waveguide arrays exhibiting Kerr nonlinearity. We find that saturation bounds the interval of existence of discrete modulational instability, stabilizes the frequency region of perturbations around ±π/2 and decreases both gain and critical spatial frequency of perturbations.     

Coherence-controlled entanglement and nonlocality of two qubits interacting with a thermal reservoir

We investigate the entanglement and the nonlocality of two qubits interacting with a thermal reservoir. It is shown that the time behavior of these quantities exhibits a strong dependence on the initial state of two qubits, and that the entanglement and the nonlocality of two qubits can be manipulated by changing the relative phases and the amplitudes of the polarized qubits.     

Modulational instability,quantum breathers and two-breathers in a frustrated ferromagnetic spin lattice under an external magnetic field

The modulational instability, quantum breathers and two-breathers in a frustrated easy-axis ferromagnetic zig-zag chain under an external magnetic field are investigated within the Hartree approximation. By means of a linear stability analysis, we analytically study the discrete modulational instability and analyze the effect of the frustration strength on the discrete modulational instability region. Using the results from the discrete modulational instability analysis, the presence conditions of those stationary bright type localized solutions are presented. On the other hand, we obtain the analytical expressions for the stationary bright localized solutions and analyze the effect of the frustration on their emergence conditions. By taking advantage of these bright type single-magnon bound wave functions obtained, quantum breather states in the present frustrated ferromagnetic zig-zag lattice are constructed. What is more, the analytical forms for quantum two-breather states are also obtained. In particular, the energy level formulas of quantum breathers and two-breathers are derived.