Relaxation of solitons in nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potential

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DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2007.04.018zbMATH Open1126.35065arXivmath-ph/0603060OpenAlexW2023712662MaRDI QIDQ2456971FDOQ2456971

Zhou Gang, I. M. Sigal

Publication date: 29 October 2007

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study dynamics of solitons in the generalized nonlinear Schr"odinger equation (NLS) with an external potential in all dimensions except for 2. For a certain class of nonlinearities such an equation has solutions which are periodic in time and exponentially decaying in space, centered near different critical points of the potential. We call those solutions which are centered near the minima of the potential and which minimize energy restricted to mathcalL2unit sphere, trapped solitons or just solitons. In this paper we prove, under certain conditions on the potentials and initial conditions, that trapped solitons are asymptotically stable. Moreover, if an initial condition is close to a trapped soliton then the solution looks like a moving soliton relaxing to its equilibrium position. The dynamical law of motion of the soliton (i.e. effective equations of motion for the soliton's center and momentum) is close to Newton's equation but with a dissipative term due to radiation of the energy to infinity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0603060




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