Breathing patterns in nonlinear relaxation

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/22/6/002MaRDI QIDQ3634246zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Justin Holmer, Maciej Zworski

Publication date 23 June 2009

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1842

zbMATH Keywords

breathing patternscubic nonlinear Schrödinger equationsolitary waves propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40)

Abstract: In numerical experiments involving nonlinear solitary waves propagating through nonhomogeneous media one observes "breathing" in the sense of the amplitude of the wave going up and down on a much faster scale than the motion of the wave. In this paper we investigate this phenomenon in the simplest case of stationary waves in which the evolution corresponds to relaxation to a nonlinear ground state. The particular model is the popular $delt{a}_0$ impurity in the cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation on the line. We give asymptotics of the amplitude on a finite but relevant time interval and show their remarkable agreement with numerical experiments. We stress the nonlinear origin of the "breathing patterns" caused by the selection of the ground state depending on the initial data, and by the non-normality of the linearized operator.

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