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Parametric Instabilities

Parametric Instability is a type of plasma instability in which resonant coupling between coherent waves in a plasma—driven by periodic modulation of plasma parameters via intense electromagnetic radiation—leads to exponential growth of sideband or daughter waves through energy transfer from a pump wave, distinguishing it from linear or kinetic instabilities by its dependence on wave coherence and parametric resonance conditions.

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Parametric Instability

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Pattern formation outside of equilibrium

M. C. Cross, P. C. Hohenberg · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1993 · 7.8K citations

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Parametric instabilities of electromagnetic waves in plasmas

J. F. Drake, P. K. Kaw, Y. C. Lee et al. · The Physics of Fluids · 1974 · 819 citations

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Parametric Instabilities in Inhomogeneous Media

M. N. Rosenbluth · Physical Review Letters · 1972 · 648 citations

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Multiple-length-scale elastic instability mimics parametric resonance of nonlinear oscillators

Fabian Brau, Hugues Vandeparre, Abbas Sabbah et al. · Nature Physics · 2010 · 394 citations · Full text

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Capillary Rogue Waves

Michael Shats, H. Punzmann, Hua Xia · Physical Review Letters · 2010 · 378 citations · Full text

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    M. Porkoláb

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    25 publications · 1.8K citations

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    E. Z. Gusakov

    Ioffe Institute, Russia

    23 publications · 672 citations

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    A. Yu. Popov

    Ioffe Institute, Russia

    22 publications · 626 citations

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    V. T. Tikhonchuk

    Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, France

    16 publications · 599 citations

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    J. A. Fejer

    University of California San Diego, United States

    14 publications · 861 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    28 h-index

    210 publications

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  2. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    23 h-index

    82 publications

    3.9K citations

  3. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    23 h-index

    58 publications

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    Livermore, United States

    21 h-index

    72 publications

    2.8K citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    20 h-index

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  6. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    19 h-index

    66 publications

    3.8K citations

  7. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    19 h-index

    120 publications

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  8. École Polytechnique

    Palaiseau, France

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    78 publications

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    PRL · 84 publications · 5.6K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 48 publications · 2.7K citations

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  4. Physics of Plasmas

    72 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. Nuclear Fusion

    35 publications · 1.4K citations

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