{\phi}^4 Solitary Waves in a Parabolic Potential: Existence, Stability, and Collisional Dynamics

arXiv1805.00206MaRDI QIDQ6301014FDOQ6301014

Aslihan Demirkaya, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Duncan K. G. Campbell, Author name not available (Why is that?), Robert Decker

Publication date: 1 May 2018

Abstract: We explore a {phi}^4 model with an added external parabolic potential term. This term dramatically alters the spectral properties of the system. We identify single and multiple kink solutions and examine their stability features; importantly, all of the stationary structures turn out to be unstable. We complement these with a dynamical study of the evolution of a single kink in the trap, as well as of the scattering of kink and anti-kink solutions of the model. We see that some of the key characteristics of kink-antikink collisions, such as the critical velocity and the multi-bounce windows, are sensitively dependent on the trap strength parameter, as well as the initial displacement of the kink and antikink.

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