title: Parabolic resonance: a route to hamiltonian spatiotemporal chaos.
abstract: We show that initial data near an unperturbed stable plane wave can evolve into a regime of spatiotemporal chaos in the slightly forced conservative periodic one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Statistical measures are employed to demonstrate that this spatiotemporal chaos is intermittent: there are windows in time for which the solution gains spatial coherence. The parameters and initial profiles that lead to such intermittency are predicted by utilizing a novel geometrical description of the integrable unforced equation.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Post Office Box 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel. eli.shlizerman@weizmann.ac.il
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shlizerman
authors.forename: Vered
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rom-Kedar