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Title: Stability of new exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a Pöschl–Teller external potential

Abstract

Here, we discuss the stability properties of the solutions of the general nonlinear Schrödinger equation in 1 + 1 dimensions in an external potential derivable from a parity-time ($$ \newcommand{\PT}{\mathcal{PT}} \PT$$ ) symmetric superpotential $W(x)$ that we considered earlier in Kevrekidis et al (2015 Phys. Rev. E 92 042901). In particular we consider the nonlinear partial differential equation $$ \{i \, \partial_t + \partial_x^2 - V(x) + g \vert \psi(x, t) \vert ^{2\kappa} \} \, \psi(x, t) = 0 \>, $$ for arbitrary nonlinearity parameter κ, where $$g= \pm1$$ and V is the well known Pöschl–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 κ. For the repulsive potential 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 withmore » 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, 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.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7]; ORCiD logo [8]
  1. Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
  2. The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Savitribai Phule Pune Univ., Pune (India)
  4. National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  5. Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Chile, Santiago (Chile)
  6. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  7. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); St. Petersburg State Univ., St. Petersburg (Russia); Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow (Russia)
  8. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1514934
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-23542
Journal ID: ISSN 1751-8113
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 50; Journal Issue: 50; Journal ID: ISSN 1751-8113
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Mathematics; PT-symmetric superpotential; variational approximation; translational instability; Derrick’s theorem; collective coordinate

Citation Formats

Dawson, John F., Cooper, Fred, Khare, Avinash, Mihaila, Bogdan, Arévalo, Edward, Lan, Ruomeng, Comech, Andrew, and Saxena, Avadh. Stability of new exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a Pöschl–Teller external potential. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aa9006.
Dawson, John F., Cooper, Fred, Khare, Avinash, Mihaila, Bogdan, Arévalo, Edward, Lan, Ruomeng, Comech, Andrew, & Saxena, Avadh. Stability of new exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a Pöschl–Teller external potential. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa9006
Dawson, John F., Cooper, Fred, Khare, Avinash, Mihaila, Bogdan, Arévalo, Edward, Lan, Ruomeng, Comech, Andrew, and Saxena, Avadh. 2017. "Stability of new exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a Pöschl–Teller external potential". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa9006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1514934.
@article{osti_1514934,
title = {Stability of new exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a Pöschl–Teller external potential},
author = {Dawson, John F. and Cooper, Fred and Khare, Avinash and Mihaila, Bogdan and Arévalo, Edward and Lan, Ruomeng and Comech, Andrew and Saxena, Avadh},
abstractNote = {Here, we discuss the stability properties of the solutions of the general nonlinear Schrödinger equation in 1 + 1 dimensions in an external potential derivable from a parity-time ($ \newcommand{\PT}{\mathcal{PT}} \PT$ ) symmetric superpotential $W(x)$ that we considered earlier in Kevrekidis et al (2015 Phys. Rev. E 92 042901). In particular we consider the nonlinear partial differential equation $ \{i \, \partial_t + \partial_x^2 - V(x) + g \vert \psi(x, t) \vert ^{2\kappa} \} \, \psi(x, t) = 0 \>, $ for arbitrary nonlinearity parameter κ, where $g= \pm1$ and V is the well known Pöschl–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 κ. For the repulsive potential 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, 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.},
doi = {10.1088/1751-8121/aa9006},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1514934}, journal = {Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical},
issn = {1751-8113},
number = 50,
volume = 50,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Width stable regions for cases Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ, according to Derrick’s theorem.

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