Response of exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation to small perturbations in a class of complex external potentials having supersymmetry and parity-time symmetry

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA8D25zbMATH Open1384.35118arXiv1707.01574OpenAlexW2730069242MaRDI QIDQ4600920FDOQ4600920

Authors: Fred Cooper, John F. Dawson, Franz G. Mertens, Edward Arévalo, Niurka Rodriguez Quintero, Bogdan Mihaila, Avinash Khare, A. Saxena 

Publication date: 18 January 2018

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

Abstract: We discuss the effect of small perturbation on nodeless solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation in 1+1 dimensions in an external complex potential derivable from a parity-time symmetric superpotential that was considered earlier [Phys.~Rev.~E 92, 042901 (2015)]. In particular we consider the nonlinear partial differential equation $,mi,partia{l}_t+partia{l}_x^2+g|psi(x,t){|}^2-V^{+}(x),,psi(x,t)=0$, where $V^{+}(x)=qty(-b^2-m^2+1/4),sec{h}^2(x)-2i,m,b,sech(x),anh(x)$ represents the complex potential. Here we study the perturbations as a function of $b$ and $m$ using a variational approximation based on a dissipation functional formalism. We compare the result of this variational approach with direct numerical simulation of the equations. We find that the variational approximation works quite well at small and moderate values of the parameter $bm$ which controls the strength of the imaginary part of the potential. We also show that the dissipation functional formalism is equivalent to the generalized traveling wave method for this type of dissipation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01574

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zbMATH Keywords

stability analysiscollective coordinatesvariational approximationdissipation functionaltraveling wave method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60)

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