Stability of new exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a Pöschl-Teller external potential

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA9006MaRDI QIDQ4602767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John F. Dawson, Fred Cooper, Avinash Khare, Bogdan Mihaila, Edward Arévalo, Ruomeng Lan, A. Saxena, A. A. Komech

Publication date 1 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07253

zbMATH Keywords

collective coordinatesDerrick's theoremvariational approximationtranslational instability\(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetric superpotential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Molecular physics (81V55) Unilateral problems for nonlinear hyperbolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear hyperbolic operators (35L86)

Abstract: We discuss the stability properties of the solutions of the general nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) in 1+1 dimensions in an external potential derivable from a parity-time ($PT$) symmetric superpotential $W(x)$ that we considered earlier cite{PhysRevE.92.042901}. In particular we consider the nonlinear partial differential equation $i,partia{l}_t+partia{l}_x^2-V(x)+g|psi(x,t){|}^{2kappa},psi(x,t)=0>,$ for arbitrary nonlinearity parameter $kappa$, where $g=pm1$ and $V$ is the well known P{"o}schl-Teller potential which we allow to be repulsive as well as attractive. Using energy landscape methods, linear stability analysis as well as a time dependent variational approximation, we derive consistent analytic results for the domains of instability of these new exact solutions as a function of the strength of the external potential and $kappa$. For the repulsive potential (and $g=+1$) we show that there is a translational instability which can be understood in terms of the energy landscape as a function of a stretching parameter and a translation parameter being a saddle near the exact solution. In this case, numerical simulations show that if we start with the exact solution, the initial wave function breaks into two pieces traveling in opposite directions. If we explore the slightly perturbed solution situations, a 1% change in initial conditions can change significantly the details of how the wave function breaks into two separate pieces. For the attractive potential (and $g=+1$), changing the initial conditions by 1 % modifies the domain of stability only slightly. For the case of the attractive potential and negative $g$ perturbed solutions merely oscillate with the oscillation frequencies predicted by the variational approximation.

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