Phase-driven interaction of widely separated nonlinear Schrödinger solitons

DOI10.1142/S0219891612500166zbMATH Open1256.35137arXiv1108.4859MaRDI QIDQ4649849FDOQ4649849

Authors: Justin Holmer, Quanhui Lin 

Publication date: 15 November 2012

Published in: Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that, for the 1d cubic NLS equation, widely separated equal amplitude in-phase solitons attract and opposite-phase solitons repel. Our result gives an exact description of the evolution of the two solitons valid until the solitons have moved a distance comparable to the logarithm of the initial separation. Our method does not use the inverse scattering theory and should be applicable to nonintegrable equations with local nonlinearities that support solitons with exponentially decaying tails. The result is presented as a special case of a general framework which also addresses, for example, the dynamics of single solitons subject to external forces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4859

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zbMATH Keywords

solitonsnonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55)

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