Effective dynamics for N-solitons of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation

DOI10.1007/S00332-011-9120-3zbMATH Open1253.35140arXiv1009.4910OpenAlexW2117915471MaRDI QIDQ715477FDOQ715477

Authors: Trevor Potter 

Publication date: 29 October 2012

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider several solitons moving in a slowly varying external field. We show that the effective dynamics obtained by restricting the full Hamiltonian to the finite dimensional manifold of $N$-solitons (constructed when no external field is present) provides a remarkably good approximation to the actual soliton dynamics. That is quantified as an error of size $h^2$ where $h$ is the parameter describing the slowly varying nature of the potential. This also indicates that previous mathematical results of Holmer-Zworski for one soliton are optimal. For potentials with unstable equilibria the Ehrenrest time, $log(1/h)/h$, appears to be the natural limiting time for these effective dynamics. We also show that the results of Holmer-Perelman-Zworski for two mKdV solitons apply numerically to a larger number of interacting solitons. We illustrate the results by applying the method with the external potentials used in Bose-Einstein soliton train experiments of Strecker et. al.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4910

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral methodsBose-Einstein condensateseffective dynamicsEhrenfest timemultiple soliton interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Soliton equations (35Q51) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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