Kinetic Description of Random Optical Waves and Anomalous Thermalization of a Nearly Integrable Wave System

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 96, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 415-447

  Michel, Claire ^a   Garnier, Josselin ^b   Suret, Pierre ^c   Randoux, Stéphane ^c   Picozzi, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

kinetic wave theory; nonlinear optics; nonlinear random waves; thermalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954845051     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-010-0452-y     Document Type: Article

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