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Transition to instability of the leapfrogging vortex quartet
We show via analytical perturbation theory that the leapfrogging vortex quartet becomes unstable exactly at the critical ratio $\alpha= \phi^{-2}.$
Roy Goodman
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Brandon Behring
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arXiv
Apodizer Design to Efficiently Couple Light into a Fiber Bragg Grating
We use an optimal control framework to efficiently couple light into a fiber Bragg grating, improving a previously-reported 66 percent transmission to 88 percent.
Jimmie Adriazola
,
Roy Goodman
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Efficient Manipulation of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Double-Well Potential
We use optimal control based on a Galerkin-truncated model to transfer a BEC from one well of a two-well potential to the other.
Jimmie Adriazola
,
Roy Goodman
,
Panos Kevrekidis
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arXiv
A Reduction-Based Strategy for Optimal Control of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Applications of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) often require that the condensate be prepared in a specific complex state. Optimal …
Jimmie Adriazola
,
Roy Goodman
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arXiv
An Optimal Control Approach to Gradient-Index Design for Beam Reshaping
We address the problem of reshaping light in the Schrödinger optics regime from the perspective of optimal control theory. In …
Jimmie Adriazola
,
Roy Goodman
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arXiV
Solitary Waves in Mass-in-Mass Lattices
We consider the existence of spatially localized traveling wave solutions of the mass-in-mass lattice. Under an anti-resonance …
Timothy Faver
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Roy Goodman
,
Doug Wright
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arXiv
Loss of Physical Reversibility in Reversible Systems
A dynamical system is said to be reversible if, given an output, the input can always be recovered in a well-posed manner. …
Amir Sagiv
,
Adi Ditkowski
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Roy Goodman
,
Gadi Fibich
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arXiv
Stability of Leapfrogging Vortex Pairs: A Semi-analytic Approach
We investigate the stability of a one-parameter family of periodic solutions of the four-vortex problem known as
leapfrogging
orbits. …
Brandon Behring
,
Roy Goodman
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arXiv
Drift of spectrally stable shifted states on star graphs
When the coefficients of the cubic terms match the coefficients in the boundary conditions at a vertex of a star graph and satisfy a …
Adilbek Kairzhan
,
Dmitry Pelinovsky
,
Roy Goodman
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arXiv
Topological features determining the error in the inference of networks using transfer entropy
The problem of inferring interactions from observations of individual behavior in networked dynamical systems is ubiquitous in science …
Roy Goodman
,
Maurizio Porfiri
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Mathematical Analysis of Fractal Kink-Antikink Collisions in the $\varphi^4$ Model
We analyze the fractal structure seen in kink-antikink collisions of the $\varphi^4$ equation. The analysis is based on qualitative …
Roy Goodman
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arXiv
Book
NLS bifurcations on the bowtie combinatorial graph and the dumbbell metric graph
We consider the bifurcations of standing wave solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) posed on a quantum graph consisting …
Roy Goodman
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Bifurcations of relative periodic orbits in NLS/GP with a triple-well potential
The nonlinear Schrödinger/Gross–Pitaevskii (NLS/GP) equation is considered in the presence of three equally-spaced potentials. …
Roy Goodman
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arXiv
A Mechanical Analog of the Two-Bounce Resonance of Solitary Waves: Modeling and Experiment
We describe a simple mechanical system, a ball rolling along a specially-designed landscape, that mimics the dynamics of a well known …
Roy Goodman
,
Amin Rahman
,
Michael Bellanich
,
Catherine Morrison
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arXiv
Dynamics of vortex dipoles in anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates
We study the motion of a vortex dipole in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined to an anisotropic trap. We focus on a system of ordinary …
Roy Goodman
,
Panos Kevrekidis
,
Ricardo Carretero Gónzalez
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Self-trapping and Josephson tunneling solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger / Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
We study the long-time behavior of solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger / Gross-Pitaevskii equation (NLS/GP) with a symmetric …
Roy Goodman
,
Jeremy Marzuola
,
Michael Weinstein
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High-order Adaptive Method for Computing Two-dimensional Invariant Manifolds of Maps
An efficient and accurate numerical method is presented for computing invariant manifolds of maps which arise in the study of dynamical …
Jacek Wróbel
,
Roy Goodman
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Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations and dynamics of NLS/GP standing-wave modes
We examine the dynamics of solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger/Gross– Pitaevskii equations that arise due to semisimple indefinite …
Roy Goodman
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arXiv
High-Order Bisection Method for Computing Invariant Manifolds of Two-Dimensional Maps
We describe an efficient and accurate numerical method for computing smooth approximations to invariant manifolds of planar maps, based …
Roy Goodman
,
Jacek Wróbel
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Nonlinear hydrodynamic phenomena in Stokes flow regime
We investigate nonlinear phenomena in dispersed two-phase systems under creeping-flow conditions. We consider nonlinear evolution of a …
Jerzy Bławzdziewicz
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Roy Goodman
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N. Khurana
,
E. Wajnryb
,
Yuan-Nan Young
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Special Issue
Chaotic scattering in solitary wave interactions: A singular iterated-map description
We derive a family of singular iterated maps—closely related to Poincaré maps—that describe chaotic interactions between …
Roy Goodman
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arXiv
Hysteretic and chaotic dynamics of viscous drops in creeping flows with rotation
We investigate nonlinear phenomena in dispersed two-phase systems under creeping-flow conditions. We consider nonlinear evolution of a …
Yuan-Nan Young
,
Jerzy Bławzdziewicz
,
Vittorio Cristini
,
Roy Goodman
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Stability and instability of nonlinear defect states in the coupled mode equations---analytical and numerical study
Coupled backward and forward wave amplitudes of an electromagnetic field propagating in a periodic and nonlinear medium at Bragg …
Roy Goodman
,
Michael Weinstein
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arXiv
Chaotic Scattering and the $n$-bounce Resonance in Solitary Wave Interactions
We present a new and complete analysis of the n-bounce resonance and chaotic scattering in solitary wave collisions. In these …
Roy Goodman
,
Richard Haberman
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arXiv
Kink-antikink collisions in the $\phi^4$ equation: The $n$-bounce resonance and the separatrix map
We provide a detailed mathematical explanation of a phenomenon known as the two-bounce resonance observed in collisions between kink …
Roy Goodman
,
Richard Haberman
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Trapping light with grating defects
Gap solitons are localized traveling waves that exist in Bragg grating optical fibers. We demonstrate a family of grating defects that …
Roy Goodman
,
Richart Slusher
,
Michael Weinstein
,
Martin Klaus
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Vector soliton interactions in birefringent optical fibers
We consider the interactions of two identical, orthogonally polarized vector solitons in a nonlinear optical fiber with two …
Roy Goodman
,
Richard Haberman
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arXiv
Interaction of sine-Gordon kinks with defects: The two-bounce resonance
A model of soliton–defect interactions in the sine-Gordon equations is studied using singular perturbation theory. Melnikov …
Roy Goodman
,
Richard Haberman
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arXiv
Strong NLS soliton--defect interactions
We consider the interaction of a nonlinear Schrödinger soliton with a spatially localized (point) defect in the medium through which it …
Roy Goodman
,
Phil Holmes
,
Michael Weinstein
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arXiv
Interaction of sine-Gordon kinks with defects: phase space transport in a two-mode model
We study a model derived by Fei et al. [Phys. Rev. A 45 (1992) 6019] of a kink solution to the sine-Gordon equation interacting with an …
Roy Goodman
,
Phil Holmes
,
Michael Weinstein
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Stopping Light on a Defect
Gap solitons are localized nonlinear coherent states that have been shown both theoretically and experimentally to propagate in …
Roy Goodman
,
Richart Slusher
,
Michael Weinstein
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arXiv
Trapping of kinks and solitons by defects: phase space transport in finite-dimensional models
We study models of Fei et al. and of Forinash et al of kinks in the sine-Gordon equation, and solitons in the nonlinear Schrodinger …
Phil Holmes
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Roy Goodman
,
Michael Weinstein
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Modulations in the leading edges of midlatitude storm tracks
Downstream development is a term encompassinga variety of effects relating to the propagation of storm systems at midlatitude. We …
Roy Goodman
,
Andrew Majda
,
David McLaughlin
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Nonlinear propagation of light in one-dimensional periodic structures
We consider the nonlinear propagation of light in an optical fiber waveguide as modeled by the anharmonic Maxwell-Lorentz equations …
Roy Goodman
,
Michael Weinstein
,
Phil Holmes
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arXiv
Trigger Waves in a Model for Catalysis
We consider the model of catalysis due to Ziff, Gulari, and Barshad [Phys Rev. Lett. 56, 2553 (1986)] as a pattern formation problem. …
Roy Goodman
,
David Graff
,
Leonard Sander
,
Patrick Leroux-Hugon
,
Eric Clement
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