ac driven sine-Gordon solitons: dynamics and stability

Recently it was discussed the Inverse Scattering Method, Part I. (paper I.) . It was a methodological Part with an example - soliton (kink) solution of the Sine-Gordon Equation. The aim of the paper I. was to introduce the Inverse Scattering Method for later studies of some problems in nonlinear dynamics. As a methodological example we described how to solve the Sine-Gordon Equation using the Inverse Scattering Method to obtain a soliton. This soliton solution is well known. ...

We give an exhaustive, non-perturbative classification of exact travelling-wave solutions of a perturbed sine-Gordon equation (on the real line or on the circle) which is used to describe the Josephson effect in the theory of superconductors and other remarkable physical phenomena. The perturbation of the equation consists of a constant forcing term and a linear dissipative term. On the real line candidate orbitally stable solutions with bounded energy density are either the ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the Inverse Scattering Method for later studies of some problems in nonlinear dynamics, and describe the kink solution of the Sine Gordon Equation using the Inverse Scattering Method as a methodological example, the soliton solution is well known.

We study properties of the localized solitons to the sine-Gordon equation excited on the attractive impurity by a moving kink. The cases of one- and two-dimensional spatially extended impurities are considered. For the case of one-dimensional impurity the possibility of excitation of the first even and odd high-amplitude impurity modes by the moving kink is demonstrated. For the case of two-dimensional impurity we show the possibility of excitation of the nonlinear high-ampli...

We investigate the dynamics of the sine-Gordon solitons perturbed by spatiotemporal external forces. We prove the existence of internal (shape) modes of sine-Gordon solitons when they are in the presence of inhomogeneous space-dependent external forces, provided some conditions (for these forces) hold. Additional periodic time-dependent forces can sustain oscillations of the soliton width. We show that, in some cases, the internal mode even can become unstable, causing the so...

In the sine-Gordon equation solitons and antisolitons in the absence of perturbations do not annihilate. Here I present numerical analysis of soliton-antisoliton collisions in the coupled sine-Gordon equation. It is shown that in such a system soliton-antisoliton pairs (breathers) do annihilate even in the absence of perturbations. The annihilation occurs via a logarithmic-in-time decay of a breather caused by emission of plasma waves in every period of breather oscillations....

We explore boundary scattering in the sine-Gordon model with a non-integrable family of Robin boundary conditions. The soliton content of the field after collision is analysed using a numerical implementation of the direct scattering problem associated with the inverse scattering method. We find that an antikink may be reflected into various combinations of an antikink, a kink, and one or more breathers, depending on the values of the initial antikink velocity and a parameter...

In this report, the various 1D single soliton and multi-soliton solutions of the Sine-Gordon equation are explored. First the topological kink solitons and their properties for the Sine-Gordon, as well as the $\phi^{4}$ model are investigated. This includes energy and momentum conservation laws for both models, as well as static kinks and antikinks. The Bogomol'nyi equation and the importance of Lorentz invariance are also discussed. Then in the second half, the focus is on S...

In this article we prove that 2-soliton solutions of the sine-Gordon equation (SG) are orbitally stable in the natural energy space of the problem. The solutions that we study are the {\it 2-kink, kink-antikink and breather} of SG. In order to prove this result, we will use B\"acklund transformations implemented by the Implicit Function Theorem. These transformations will allow us to reduce the stability of the three solutions to the case of the vacuum solution, in the spirit...

In this paper we study the dynamics of explicit solutions of $2+1$-dimensional ($2$D) sine-Gordon equation. The Darboux transformation is applied to the associated linear eigenvalue problem to construct nontrivial solutions of $2$D sine-Gordon equation in terms of ratios of determinants. We obtained a generalized expression for $N$-fold transformed dynamical variable which enables us to calculate explicit expressions of nontrivial solutions. In order to explore the dynamics o...