Spatiotemporal chaotic dynamics of solitons with internal structure in the presence of finite-width inhomogeneities

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00134-9MaRDI QIDQ1587142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. R. Carbó, J. A. González, Luis E. Guerrero, Alberto Bellorín

Publication date 19 March 2001

Published in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9904003

zbMATH Keywords

finite-width inhomogeneitykink-solitonspinning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40) Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05)

Abstract: We present an analytical and numerical study of the Klein-Gordon kink-soliton dynamics in inhomogeneous media. In particular, we study an external field that is almost constant for the whole system but that changes its sign at the center of coordinates and a localized impurity with finite-width. The soliton solution of the Klein-Gordon-like equations is usually treated as a structureless point-like particle. A richer dynamics is unveiled when the extended character of the soliton is taken into account. We show that interesting spatiotemporal phenomena appear when the structure of the soliton interacts with finite-width inhomogeneities. We solve an inverse problem in order to have external perturbations which are generic and topologically equivalent to well-known bifurcation models and such that the stability problem can be solved exactly. We also show the different quasiperiodic and chaotic motions the soliton undergoes as a time-dependent force pumps energy into the traslational mode of the kink and relate these dynamics with the excitation of the shape modes of the soliton.

Review text

Stability and spatiotemporal dynamics of kink-solitons in the Klein-Gordon model are analyzed numerically and analytically. Models of this type serve for different applications (Josephson junction, polymers, hydrogen-bonds etc.), hence the influence of inhomogeneities is of particular interest. The authors go beyond point-like inhomogeneities and consider finite-width humps together with an external field that changes sign. By topological equivalence of their model choice to the sine-Gordon equations, they can find exact soliton solutions in this medium, and compute the discrete spectrum. An instability of the translation mode corresponds to an effective double-well potential, i.e. a pitchfork bifurcation. Numerical studies of the influence of several such inhomogeneites yield a rich variety of spationtemporal patterns. Finally, the authors consider the interaction of a soliton with radiative modes, i.e. continuous spectrum.

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