Artículo
Parametrically driven nonlinear Dirac equation with arbitrary nonlinearity
Título alternativo | Parametrically driven nonlinear Dirac equation with arbitrary nonlinearity |
Autor/es | Cooper, Fred
Khare, Avinash Quintero, Niurka R. Sánchez-Rey, Bernardo Mertens, Franz G. Saxena, Avadh |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Aplicada I |
Fecha de publicación | 2020-01 |
Fecha de depósito | 2020-02-25 |
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Resumen | The damped and parametrically driven nonlinear Dirac equation with arbitrary nonlinearity parameter κ is analyzed, when the external force is periodic in space and given by f(x) = r cos(Kx), both numerically and in a ... The damped and parametrically driven nonlinear Dirac equation with arbitrary nonlinearity parameter κ is analyzed, when the external force is periodic in space and given by f(x) = r cos(Kx), both numerically and in a variational approximation using five collective coordinates (time dependent shape parameters of the wave function). Our variational approximation satisfies exactly the low-order moment equations. Because of competition between the spatial period of the external force λ = 2π/K, and the soliton width ls, which is a function of the nonlinearity κ as well as the initial frequency ω0 of the solitary wave, there is a transition (at fixed ω0) from trapped to unbound behavior of the soliton, which depends on the parameters r and K of the external force and the nonlinearity parameter κ. We previously studied this phenomena when κ = 1 (2019 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52 285201) where we showed that for λ ≫ ls the soliton oscillates in an effective potential, while for λ ≪ ls it moves uniformly as a free particle. In this paper we focus on the κ dependence of the transition from oscillatory to particle behavior and explicitly compare the curves of the transition regime found in the collective coordinate approximation as a function of r and K when κ = 1/2,1,2 at fixed value of the frequency ω0. Since the solitary wave gets narrower for fixed ω0 as a function of κ, we expect and indeed find that the regime where the solitary wave is trapped is extended as we increase κ. |
Identificador del proyecto | FIS2017-89349-P
PGC2018-093998-B-I00 |
Cita | Cooper, F., Khare, A., Quintero, N.R., Sánchez-Rey, B., Mertens, F.G. y Saxena, A. (2020). Parametrically driven nonlinear Dirac equation with arbitrary nonlinearity. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 53, 075203-. |
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