Existence threshold for the ac-driven damped nonlinear Schrödinger solitons

Abstract: It has been known for some time that solitons of the externally driven, damped nonlinear Schr"odinger equation can only exist if the driver's strength,

h

, exceeds approximately

(2 / p i) g a m m a

, where

g a m m a

is the dissipation coefficient. Although this perturbative result was expected to be correct only to the leading order in

g a m m a

, recent studies have demonstrated that the formula

h_{t h r} = (2 / p i) g a m m a

gives a remarkably accurate description of the soliton's existence threshold prompting suggestions that it is, in fact, exact. In this note we evaluate the next order in the expansion of

h_{t h r} (g a m m a)

showing that the actual reason for this phenomenon is simply that the next-order coefficient is anomalously small:

h_{t h r} = (2 / p i) g a m m a + 0.002 g a m m a^{3}

. Our approach is based on a singular perturbation expansion of the soliton near the turning point; it allows to evaluate

h_{t h r} (g a m m a)

to all orders in

g a m m a

and can be easily reformulated for other perturbed soliton equations.

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