Stability of exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in an external potential having supersymmetry and parity-time symmetry

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/50/1/015301MaRDI QIDQ2965339zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fred Cooper, Avinash Khare, Bogdan Mihaila, John F. Dawson, A. Saxena, A. A. Komech

Publication date 2 March 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03970

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemsupersymmetryPT symmetrysoliton stabilitynonlinear Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: We discuss the stability properties of the solutions of the general nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) in 1+1 dimensions in an external potential derivable from a parity-time (PT) symmetric superpotential $W(x)$ that we considered earlier [Kevrekedis et al Phys. Rev. E 92, 042901 (2015)]. In particular we consider the nonlinear partial differential equation $ipartia{l}_t+partia{l}_x^2-V^{-}(x)+|psi(x,t){|}^{2kappa},psi(x,t)=0$, for arbitrary nonlinearity parameter $kappa$. We study the bound state solutions when $V^{-}(x)=(1/4-b^2)$ sech${}^2(x)$, which can be derived from two different superpotentials $W(x)$, one of which is complex and $PT$ symmetric. Using Derrick's theorem, as well as a time dependent variational approximation, we derive exact analytic results for the domain of stability of the trapped solution as a function of the depth $b^2$ of the external potential. We compare the regime of stability found from these analytic approaches with a numerical linear stability analysis using a variant of the Vakhitov-Kolokolov (V-K) stability criterion. The numerical results of applying the V-K condition give the same answer for the domain of stability as the analytic result obtained from applying Derrick's theorem. Our main result is that for $kappa>2$ a new regime of stability for the exact solutions appears as long as $b>b_{crit}$, where $b_{crit}$ is a function of the nonlinearity parameter $kappa$. In the absence of the potential the related solitary wave solutions of the NLSE are unstable for $kappa>2$.

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