Discrete wave turbulence for a coupled system of quintic Schr\"odinger equations

TL;DR

This paper rigorously derives a non-linear macroscopic system from coupled quintic Schrödinger equations, demonstrating the emergence of discrete wave turbulence in the large-box, weakly non-linear limit.

Contribution

It provides a rigorous derivation of the macroscopic resonant system from microscopic coupled quintic Schrödinger equations under a specific scaling law.

Findings

Long-time behavior described by a resonant system driven by exact resonances

Emergence of discrete wave turbulence in the large-box limit

Significant role of exact resonances due to fewer symmetries

Abstract

We derive rigorously the non-linear macroscopic system associated to a microscopic system of coupled quintic Schr\"odinger equations in the framework of discrete wave turbulence under a particular scaling law that describes the limiting process. Our system evolves from a pair of well-prepared random initial data. More precisely, in dimensions $d\geq2$, we set up our microscopic system on a large box of size $L$ with weak non-linearity of strength $\epsilon$. In the limit $L\to\infty$ and $\epsilon\to0$, under the scaling law $\epsilon L^{\frac{1}{\beta}}=1$ with $\beta\in(1,\infty)$, we prove that the long-time behaviour of our microscopic system is statistically described up to times $\delta\epsilon^{-1}$ by a non-linear resonant system whose dynamics are driven by exact resonances, where $\delta$ is independent of $L$ and $\epsilon$. Our system does not display generic symmetries, in particular not mass conservation. In such systems with fewer invariances, exact resonances contribute significantly compared to quasi-resonances and are essentially responsible for the effective dynamics in the large-box limit. We justify the emergence of discrete wave turbulence for our microscopic model.