This article investigates a defocusing derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a fourth-order power nonlinearity. A family of soliton solutions is constructed, and a strong instability phenomenon is proven for the associated flow in Sobolev spaces (Hˢ). Using a refined fourier integral estimate, (1/4) is identified as an upper threshold for the instability index in Hˢ.
Luo et al. (Sat,) studied this question.