Quasi-stationary solitons for Langmuir waves in plasmas

Abstract

The multiple-scale perturbation analysis is used to study the perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger’s equation, that describes the Langmuir waves in plasmas. The perturbation terms include the non-local term due to nonlinear Landau damping. The WKB type ansatz is used to define the phase of the soliton that captures the corrections to the pulse where the standard soliton perturbation theory fails.