Cubic–quintic long-range interactions with double well potentials

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/3/035201MaRDI QIDQ5402221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Panagiotis Tsilifis, V. Rothos, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Publication date 6 March 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6731

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcation analysislong range interactionsdouble-well potentialsnonlinear Schrödinger equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: In the present work, we examine the combined effects of cubic and quintic terms of the long range type in the dynamics of a double well potential. Employing a two-mode approximation, we systematically develop two cubic-quintic ordinary differential equations and assess the contributions of the long-range interactions in each of the relevant prefactors, gauging how to simplify the ensuing dynamical system. Finally, we obtain a reduced canonical description for the conjugate variables of relative population imbalance and relative phase between the two wells and proceed to a dynamical systems analysis of the resulting pair of ordinary differential equations. While in the case of cubic and quintic interactions of the same kind (e.g. both attractive or both repulsive), only a symmetry breaking bifurcation can be identified, a remarkable effect that emerges e.g. in the setting of repulsive cubic but attractive quintic interactions is a "symmetry restoring" bifurcation. Namely, in addition to the supercritical pitchfork that leads to a spontaneous symmetry breaking of the anti-symmetric state, there is a subcritical pitchfork that eventually reunites the asymmetric daughter branch with the anti-symmetric parent one. The relevant bifurcations, the stability of the branches and their dynamical implications are examined both in the reduced (ODE) and in the full (PDE) setting.

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