2006/03/24 by Zhou Gang, Israel Michael Sigal, Gang, Zhou +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #35Q55 #37K45 #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/0603060
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In this paper we study dynamics of solitons in the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) with an external potential in all dimensions except for 2. For a certain class of nonlinearities such an equation has solutions which are periodic in time and exponentially decaying in space, centered near different critical points of the potential. We call those solutions which are centered near the minima of the potential and which minimize energy restricted to L2-unit sphere, trapped solitons or just solitons. In this paper we prove, under certain conditions on the potentials and initial conditions, that trapped solitons are asymptotically stable. Moreover, if an initial condition is close to a trapped soliton then the solution looks like a moving soliton relaxing to its equilibrium position. The dynamical law of motion of the soliton (i.e. effective equations of motion for the soliton's center and momentum) is close to Newton's equation but with a dissipative term due to radiation of the energy to infinity.