Modulational instabilities in lattices with power-law hoppings and interactions

Abstract

We study the occurrence of modulational instabilities in lattices with non-local, power-law hoppings and interactions. Choosing as a case study the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we consider one-dimensional chains with power-law decaying interactions (with exponent α) and hoppings (with exponent β): An extensive energy is obtained for α, β>1. We show that the effect of power-law interactions is that of shifting the onset of the modulational instabilities region for α>1. At a critical value of the interaction strength, the modulational stable region shrinks to zero. Similar results are found for effectively short-range nonlocal hoppings (β> 2): At variance, for longer-ranged hoppings (1 < β< 2) there is no longer any modulational stability. The hopping instability arises for q = 0 perturbations, thus the system is most sensitive to the perturbations of the order of the system's size. We also discuss the stability regions in the presence of the interplay between competing interactions - (e.g., attractive local and repulsive nonlocal interactions). We find that noncompeting nonlocal interactions give rise to a modulational instability emerging for a perturbing wave vector q = πwhile competing nonlocal interactions may induce a modulational instability for a perturbing wave vector 0 < q < π. Since for α> 1 and β> 2 the effects are similar to the effect produced on the stability phase diagram by finite range interactions and/or hoppings, we conclude that the modulational instability is "genuinely" long-ranged for 1 < β< 2 nonlocal hoppings.

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