Metastability of breather modes of time-dependent potentials

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/13/3/303MaRDI QIDQ4494893zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 9 August 2000

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002068, http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/49071

zbMATH Keywords

breather modedecaylinear Schrödinger equationmetastabilityperturbationseparable potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integral representations of solutions to PDEs (35C15) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Perturbations, KAM theory for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K55) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15)

Abstract: We study the solutions of linear Schroedinger equations in which the potential energy is a periodic function of time and is sufficiently localized in space. We consider the potential to be close to one that is time periodic and yet explicitly solvable. A large family of such potentials has been constructed and the corresponding Schroedinger equation solved by Miller and Akhmediev. Exact bound states, or breather modes, exist in the unperturbed problem and are found to be generically metastable in the presence of small periodic perturbations. Thus, these states are long-lived but eventually decay. On a time scale of order $epsilo{n}^{-2}$, where $epsilon$ is a measure of the perturbation size, the decay is exponential, with a rate of decay given by an analogue of Fermi's golden rule. For times of order $epsilo{n}^{-1}$ the breather modes are frequency shifted. This behavior is derived first by classical multiple-scale expansions, and then in certain circumstances we are able to apply the rigorous theory developed by Soffer and Weinstein and extended by Kirr and Weinstein to justify the expansions and also provide longer-time asymptotics that indicate eventual dispersive decay of the bound states with behavior that is algebraic in time. As an application, we use our techniques to study the frequency dependence of the guidance properties of certain optical waveguides. We supplement our results with numerical experiments.

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