Vector Rogue Waves and Baseband Modulation Instability in the Defocusing Regime

Baronio, Fabio, Conforti, Matteo, Degasperis, Antonio, Lombardo, Sara, Onorato, Miguel and Wabnitz, Stefan (2014) Vector Rogue Waves and Baseband Modulation Instability in the Defocusing Regime. Physical Review Letters, 113 (3). 034101. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

We report and discuss analytical solutions of the vector nonlinear Schrödinger equation that describe rogue waves in the defocusing regime. This family of solutions includes bright-dark and dark-dark rogue waves. The link between modulational instability (MI) and rogue waves is displayed by showing that only a peculiar kind of MI, namely baseband MI, can sustain rogue-wave formation. The existence of vector rogue waves in the defocusing regime is expected to be a crucial progress in explaining extreme waves in a variety of physical scenarios described by multicomponent systems, from oceanography to optics and plasma physics.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: F300 Physics
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited: 18 Jul 2014 10:34
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 07:51
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/17242

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