TY - JOUR
T1 - Chaotic character of two-soliton collisions in the weakly perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation
AU - Dmitriev, Sergey V.
AU - Semagin, Denis A.
AU - Sukhorukov, Andrey A.
AU - Shigenari, Takeshi
PY - 2002/10/14
Y1 - 2002/10/14
N2 - We analyze the exact two-soliton solution to the unperturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation and predict that in a weakly perturbed system (i) soliton collisions can be strongly inelastic, (ii) inelastic collisions are of almost nonradiating type, (iii) results of a collision are extremely sensitive to the relative phase of solitons, and (iv) the effect is independent on the particular type of perturbation. In the numerical study we consider two different types of perturbation and confirm the predictions. We also show that this effect is a reason for chaotic soliton scattering. For applications, where the inelasticity of collision, induced by a weak perturbation, is undesirable, we propose a method of compensating it by perturbation of another type.
AB - We analyze the exact two-soliton solution to the unperturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation and predict that in a weakly perturbed system (i) soliton collisions can be strongly inelastic, (ii) inelastic collisions are of almost nonradiating type, (iii) results of a collision are extremely sensitive to the relative phase of solitons, and (iv) the effect is independent on the particular type of perturbation. In the numerical study we consider two different types of perturbation and confirm the predictions. We also show that this effect is a reason for chaotic soliton scattering. For applications, where the inelasticity of collision, induced by a weak perturbation, is undesirable, we propose a method of compensating it by perturbation of another type.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.046609
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.046609
M3 - Article
SN - 2470-0045
VL - 66
SP - 8
JO - Physical Review E
JF - Physical Review E
IS - 4
ER -