Interaction of sine-Gordon kinks with defects: the two-bounce resonance

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2004.04.002zbMATH Open1060.35124arXivnlin/0310040OpenAlexW2032186949MaRDI QIDQ1886992FDOQ1886992


Authors: Roy H. Goodman, Richard Haberman Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 23 November 2004

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A model of soliton-defect interactions in the sine-Gordon equations is studied using singular perturbation theory. Melnikov theory is used to derive a critical velocity for strong interactions, which is shown to be exponentially small for weak defects. Matched asymptotic expansions for nearly heteroclinic orbits are constructed for the initial value problem, which are then used to derive analytical formulas for the locations of the well known two- and three-bounce resonance windows, as well as several other phenomena seen in numerical simulations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0310040




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