Existence, stability, and dynamics of harmonically trapped one-dimensional multi-component solitary waves: the near-linear limit

DOI10.1063/1.4983999zbMATH Open1370.35246arXiv1607.04598OpenAlexW2483711519MaRDI QIDQ5282829FDOQ5282829

Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Todd Kapitula, Haitao Xu

Publication date: 17 July 2017

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

Abstract: In the present work, we consider a variety of two-component, one-dimensional states in nonlinear Schrodinger equations in the presence of a parabolic trap, inspired by the atomic physics context of Bose-Einstein condensates. The use of Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction methods allows us to identify persistence criteria for the different families of solutions which we classify as (m,n), in accordance with the number of nodes in each component. Upon developing the existence theory, we turn to a stability analysis of the different configurations, using the Krein signature and the Hamiltonian-Krein index as topological tools identifying the number of potentially unstable eigendirections for each branch. A systematic expansion of suitably reduced eigenvalue problems when perturbing off of the linear limit permits us to obtain explicit expressions for the eigenvalues of each of the states considered. Finally, when the states are found to be unstable, typically by virtue of Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations, their dynamics is studied in order to identify the nature of the respective instability. The dynamics is generally found to lead to a vibrational evolution over long time scales.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04598

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zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensatesLyapunov-Schmidt methodKrein signatureHamiltonian-Hopf bifurcation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Soliton solutions (35C08) Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55)

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