Relativistic dynamics of sine-Gordon solitons trapped in confining potentials
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 34 (9), 6207-6213
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.6207
Abstract
A collective-coordinate method is used to study theoretically and numerically the stability and the dynamics of a sine-Gordon soliton trapped in a confining potential. The example of a harmonic well is emphasized. A remarkably simple approximated solution is found and checked by numerical simulations. The perturbed soliton is stable up to high (relativistic) energies and its profile has the following kinklike dependence on space and time: U(x,t)=4 exp[( 1+(1/4)V(y) / [1-(y’ ] [x-y(t)]] , where V(y) is the potential energy of the particlelike kink at x=y(t). When an external driving force is present, resonances are pointed out and their nonlinear nature is stressed.
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