ID: cond-mat/9808288

ac driven sine-Gordon solitons: dynamics and stability

August 26, 1998

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Niurka R. Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complicados Quintero, Angel Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complicados Sanchez
Condensed Matter
Mathematics
Nonlinear Sciences
Mathematical Physics
Pattern Formation and Solito...

The ac driven sine-Gordon equation is studied analytically and numerically, with the aim of providing a full description of how soliton solutions behave. To date, there is much controversy about when ac driven dc motion is possible. Our work shows that kink solitons exhibit dc or oscillatory motion depending on the relation between their initial velocity and the force parameters. Such motion is proven to be impossible in the presence of damping terms. For breathers, the force amplitude range for which they exist when dissipation is absent is found. All the analytical results are compared with numerical simulations, which in addition exhibit no dc motion at all for breathers, and an excellent agreement is found. In the conclusion, the generality of our results and connections to others systems for which a similar phenomenology may arise are discussed.

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