Soliton Limit Research Articles

Reissner-Nordström dyonic black holes with gauged scalar hair

For gauged scalar fields minimally coupled to Einstein-Maxwell theory, the Mayo-Bekenstein no-hair theorem can be circumvented when including appropriate scalar self-interactions, allowing static, electrically charged black holes to be endowed with (Abelian) gauged scalar hair. Here we show these spherically symmetric solutions can be extended to include a magnetic charge in a model with scalar multiplets. The resulting dyonic configurations share most of the properties of the electrically charged solutions, in particular satisfying the same resonance condition, with the existence of a mass gap with respect to the bald Reissner-Nordström dyonic black holes. A distinctive feature, however, is that no solitonic limit exists for a non-zero magnetic charge.

Cnoidal waves and their soliton limits in single mode fiber lasers

Cnoidal waves are a type of nonlinear periodic wave solutions of the nonlinear dynamic equations. They are well known in fluid dynamics, but it is not the case in optics. In this paper we show both experimentally and numerically that cnoidal waves could be formed in a fiber laser either in the net normal or net anomalous cavity dispersion regime, especially because, as the pump power is increased, the formed cnoidal waves could eventually evolve into a train of bright (in the net anomalous cavity dispersion regime) or dark (in the net normal cavity dispersion regime) solitons. Numerical simulations of the laser operation based on the extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) have well reproduced the experimental observations. The result not only explains why solitons can still be formed in a fiber laser even without mode locking but also suggests a new effective way of automatic stable periodic pulse train generation in lasers with a nonlinear cavity.

Serre Equations in Channels and Rivers of Arbitrary Cross Section

A variational approach was used to derive a set of Serre equations for fully nonlinear, dispersive waves in channels of arbitrary cross section. A family of travelling waves was found, as well as the relation between amplitude and celerity of solitary waves. An upper bound is proposed for the solitary wave amplitude as a function of the Froude number in trapezoidal cross-sectional canals, and it showed good agreement with existing theory. For waves of moderate amplitude, cnoidal waves result with a soliton limit; these waves and their properties (celerity and wave number) are written as functions of the channel bank slope and channel bank curvature. The theoretical findings are in agreement with well-established results in the literature, in particular with more-recent Boussinesq-type theories. A validation is proposed against existing experimental data.

Soliton, breather, rogue wave and continuum limit in the discrete complex modified Korteweg-de Vries equation by Darboux-Bäcklund transformation

In this paper, a discrete complex modified Korteweg-de Vries (DcmKdV) equation is investigated. Firstly, the modulational instability is studied beginning with the plane wave solution, from which we know that the discrete rogue wave may be expected as solution of the DcmKdV equation. Secondly, we propose the pseudopotential of the DcmKdV equation, from which a Darboux-Bäcklund transformation is established. Thirdly, starting from vanishing and plane wave backgrounds, a variety of nonlinear wave solutions, including bell-shaped one-soliton, three types of breathers, W-shaped soliton, periodic solution and rogue wave are given, the relationship between parameters and solutions' structures is discussed and analyzed in detail. Finally, the integrable properties of the DcmKdV equation, including the Lax pair, Darboux-Bäcklund transformation and solutions, are shown for their continuous counterparts of the cmKdV equation. The method and technique used in this paper can also be extended to other nonlinear integrable equations. The results in this paper might be helpful for understanding some physical phenomena in electromagnetic waves and nonlinear optics.

Soliton, breather, rogue wave and continuum limit for the spatial discrete Hirota equation by Darboux–Bäcklund transformation

Soliton, breather, rogue wave and continuum limit for the spatial discrete Hirota equation by Darboux–Bäcklund transformation

Whitham modulation theory for the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two and three spatial dimensions

The Whitham modulation equations for the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation in two, three and higher spatial dimensions are derived using a two-phase ansatz for the periodic traveling wave solutions and by period-averaging the conservation laws of the NLS equation. The resulting Whitham modulation equations are written in vector form, which allows one to show that they preserve the rotational invariance of the NLS equation, as well as the invariance with respect to scaling and Galilean transformations, and to immediately generalize the calculations from two spatial dimensions to three. The transformation to Riemann-type variables is described in detail; the harmonic and soliton limits of the Whitham modulation equations are explicitly written down; and the reduction of the Whitham equations to those for the radial NLS equation is explicitly carried out. Finally, the extension of the theory to higher spatial dimensions is briefly outlined. The multidimensional NLS-Whitham equations obtained here may be used to study large amplitude wavetrains in a variety of applications including nonlinear photonics and matter waves.

Correction to: On solutions to the nonlocal $${\overline{\partial }}$$-problem and (2+1) dimensional completely integrable systems

In this short note we discuss a new formula for solving the nonlocal $\overline{\partial}$-problem, and discuss application to the Manakov--Zakharov dressing method. We then explicitly apply this formula to solving the complex (2+1)D Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation and complex (2+1)D completely integrable generalization of the (2+1)D Kaup--Broer (or Kaup--Boussinesq) system. We will also discuss how real (1+1)D solutions are expressed using this formalism. It is simple to express the formalism for finite gap primitive solutions from [10], [8] using the formalism of this note. We also discuss recent results on the infinite soliton limit for the (1+1)D Korteweg--de Vries equation and the (2+1)D Kaup--Broer system. In an appendix, the classical solutions to the 3D Laplace equation (2+1)D d'Alembert wave equation by Whittaker are described. This appendix is included to elucidate an analogy between the dressing method and the Whittaker solutions.

On solutions to the nonlocal $$\overline{\partial }$$-problem and (2+1) dimensional completely integrable systems

In this short note, we discuss a new formula for solving the nonlocal \(\overline{\partial }\)-problem, and discuss application to the Manakov–Zakharov dressing method. We then explicitly apply this formula to solving the complex (2+1)D Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation and complex (2+1)D completely integrable generalization of the (2+1)D Kaup–Broer (or Kaup–Boussinesq) system. We will also discuss how real (1+1)D solutions are expressed using this formalism. It is simple to express the formalism for finite gap primitive solutions from [9, 11] using the formalism of this note. We also discuss recent results on the infinite soliton limit for the (1+1)D Korteweg–de Vries equation and the (1+1)D Kaup-Broer system. In an appendix, the classical solutions to the 3D Laplace equation (2+1)D d’Alembert wave equation by Whittaker are described. This appendix is included to elucidate an analogy between the dressing method and the Whittaker solutions.

Static black holes without spatial isometries: From AdS multipoles to electrovacuum scalarization

We review recent results on the existence of static black holes (BHs) without spatial isometries in four spacetime dimensions and propose a general framework for their study. These configurations are regular on and outside a horizon of spherical topology. Two different mechanisms allowing for their existence are identified. The first one relies on the presence of a solitonic limit of the BHs; when the solitons have no spatial isometries, the BHs, being a nonlinear bound state between the solitons and a horizon, inherit this property. The second one is related to BH scalarization, and the existence of zero modes of the scalar field without isometries around a spherical horizon. When the zero modes have no spatial isometries, the back-reaction of their nonlinear continuation makes the scalarized BHs inherit the absence of spatial continuous symmetries. A number of general features of the solutions are discussed together with possible generalizations.

An attempt to study cnoidal and solitary waves in the bloodstream using computer mathematics Maple

Korteweg-de Vries equation and its modified shape were studied with Maple, a system of computer mathematics. We derived and dealt with their dimensionless forms. The traveling wave type solutions were found in both cases. These waves based on different Jacobi’s elliptic functions. Conditions, formulated for both models from bloodstream description in vessels, are fulfilled regarding these waves. Note, that the traveling waves within both models are similar enough, despite vital diversities found with Maple. First, they have the same periodicity, which depends on the elliptic module (0 ≤ m ≤ 1). Second, they have similar behavior in the harmonic and soliton limits (m = 0 and m = 1). Finally, they have similar dispersion relations.

Dissipative cnoidal waves (Turing rolls) and the soliton limit in microring resonators

Single solitons are a special limit of more general waveforms commonly referred to as cnoidal waves or Turing rolls. We theoretically and computationally investigate the stability and accessibility of cnoidal waves in microresonators. We show that they are robust and, in contrast to single solitons, can be easily and deterministically accessed in most cases. Their bandwidth can be comparable to single solitons, in which limit they are effectively a periodic train of solitons and correspond to a frequency comb with increased power. We comprehensively explore the three-dimensional parameter space that consists of detuning, pump amplitude, and mode circumference in order to determine where stable solutions exist. To carry out this task, we use a unique set of computational tools based on dynamical system theory that allow us to rapidly and accurately determine the stable region for each cnoidal wave periodicity and to find the instability mechanisms and their time scales. Finally, we focus on the soliton limit, and we show that the stable region for single solitons almost completely overlaps the stable region for both continuous waves and several higher-periodicity cnoidal waves that are effectively multiple soliton trains. This result explains in part why it is difficult to access single solitons deterministically.

Narrow autoresonant magnetization structures in finite-length ferromagnetic nanoparticles.

The autoresonant approach to excitation and control of large-amplitude uniformly precessing magnetization structures in finite-length easy axis ferromagnetic nanoparticles is suggested and analyzed within the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert model. These structures are excited by using a spatially uniform, oscillating, chirped frequency magnetic field, while the localization is imposed via boundary conditions. The excitation requires the amplitude of the driving oscillations to exceed a threshold. The dissipation effect on the threshold is also discussed. The autoresonant driving effectively compensates the effect of dissipation but lowers the maximum amplitude of the excited structures. Fully nonlinear localized autoresonant solutions are illustrated in simulations and described via an analog of a quasiparticle in an effective potential. The precession frequency of these solutions is continuously locked to that of the drive, while the spatial magnetization profile approaches the soliton limit when the length of the nanoparticle and the amplitude of the excited solution increase.

Study of shock waves and solitons in bulk superfluid He4

Properties of shock waves and solitons in superfluid $^{4}\mathrm{He}$ were studied by time-resolved shadowgraph experiments and theoretical density functional theory calculations. Pressure estimates for shock waves and the bright soliton limit (0.2 MPa) were provided and compared with the semiclassical Rankine-Hugoniot theory. Overall, the shock wave amplitude-velocity relationship was observed to be linear at least up to 175 kg/${\mathrm{m}}^{3}$. At high amplitudes, the shock waves decay into sound waves in the wake as well as a bright soliton train in the front. This suggests that the experimental shadowgraph data presented by Ancilotto et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 035302 (2018)] correspond to such a train structure rather than an individual bright soliton. With reference to theoretical calculations, a new approach based on an accelerating wall embedded in the liquid is proposed for generating single solitons in superfluid helium. This process is also predicted to produce dark solitons in superfluid helium, which have not yet been observed experimentally. At low soliton amplitudes, collision with an exponentially repulsive wall results in nearly lossless reflection, which is accompanied by soliton inversion from dark to bright or bright to dark.

Stability of periodic waves in Hamiltonian PDEs of either long wavelength or small amplitude

Stability criteria have been derived and investigated in the last decades for many kinds of periodic traveling wave solutions to Hamiltonian PDEs. They turned out to depend in a crucial way on the negative signature of the Hessian matrix of action integrals associated with those waves. In a previous paper (Nonlinearity 2016), the authors addressed the characterization of stability of periodic waves for a rather large class of Hamiltonian partial differential equations that includes quasilinear generalizations of the Korteweg--de Vries equation and dispersive perturbations of the Euler equations for compressible fluids, either in Lagrangian or in Eulerian coordinates. They derived a sufficient condition for orbital stability with respect to co-periodic perturbations, and a necessary condition for spectral stability, both in terms of the negative signature - or Morse index - of the Hessian matrix of the action integral. Here the asymptotic behavior of this matrix is investigated in two asymptotic regimes, namely for small amplitude waves and for waves approaching a solitary wave as their wavelength goes to infinity. The special structure of the matrices involved in the expansions makes possible to actually compute the negative signature of the action Hessian both in the harmonic limit and in the soliton limit. As a consequence, it is found that nondegenerate small amplitude waves are orbitally stable with respect to co-periodic perturbations in this framework. For waves of long wavelength, the negative signature of the action Hessian is found to be exactly governed by the second derivative with respect to the wave speed of the Boussinesq momentum associated with the limiting solitary wave.

Magnetized Solutions in Minimal Gauged Supergravity

We present new black hole solutions in five-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–Chern–Simons theory with a negative cosmological constant. They rotate with two equal-magnitude angular momenta and they are electrically charged. In addition they possess a non-vanishing magnetic potential at infinity, where they approach asymptotically a global AdS5 space-time. We investigate some of their properties, and we show that these black holes possess a regular extremal limit, and under some additional conditions, a regular solitonic limit as well.

Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons Black Holes

Black holes in 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons (EMCS) theory and their intriguing properties are discussed. For the special case of the CS coupling constant λ = λSG, as obtained from supergravity, a closed form solution is known for the rotating black holes. Beyond this supergravity value, the EMCS black hole solutions can e.g. exhibit nonuniqueness and form sequences of radially excited solutions. In the presence of a negative cosmological constant the black holes can possess an extra-parameter corresponding to a magnetic flux in addition to the mass, electric charge and angular momenta. This latter family of black holes possesses also a solitonic limit. Finally, a new class of squashed EMCS black hole solutions is discussed.

Breather solutions of a fourth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the degenerate, soliton, and rogue wave limits.

We present one- and two-breather solutions of the fourth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation. With several parameters to play with, the solution may take a variety of forms. We consider most of these cases including the general form and limiting cases when the modulation frequencies are 0 or coincide. The zero-frequency limit produces a combination of breather-soliton structures on a constant background. The case of equal modulation frequencies produces a degenerate solution that requires a special technique for deriving. A zero-frequency limit of this degenerate solution produces a rational second-order rogue wave solution with a stretching factor involved. Taking, in addition, the zero limit of the stretching factor transforms the second-order rogue waves into a soliton. Adding a differential shift in the degenerate solution results in structural changes in the wave profile. Moreover, the zero-frequency limit of the degenerate solution with differential shift results in a rogue wave triplet. The zero limit of the stretching factor in this solution, in turn, transforms the triplet into a singlet plus a low-amplitude soliton on the background. A large value of the differential shift parameter converts the triplet into a pure singlet.

Traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

In this paper, we investigate the traveling soliton and the periodic wave solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) with generalized nonlinear functionality. We also explore the underlying close connection between the well-known KdV equation and the NLSE. It is remarked that both one-dimensional KdV and NLSE models share the same pseudoenergy spectrum. We also derive the traveling wave solutions for two cases of weakly nonlinear mathematical models, namely, the Helmholtz and the Duffing oscillators' potentials. It is found that these models only allow gray-type NLSE solitary propagations. It is also found that the pseudofrequency ratio for the Helmholtz potential between the nonlinear periodic carrier and the modulated sinusoidal waves is always in the range 0.5 ≤ Ω/ω ≤ 0.537285 regardless of the potential parameter values. The values of Ω/ω = {0.5, 0.537285} correspond to the cnoidal waves modulus of m = {0, 1} for soliton and sinusoidal limits and m = 0.5, respectively. Moreover, the current NLSE model is extended to fully NLSE (FNLSE) situation for Sagdeev oscillator pseudopotential which can be derived using a closed set of hydrodynamic fluid equations with a fully integrable Hamiltonian system. The generalized quasi-three-dimensional traveling wave solution is also derived. The current simple hydrodynamic plasma model may also be generalized to two dimensions and other complex situations including different charged species and cases with magnetic or gravitational field effects.

Type I integrable defects and finite-gap solutions for KdV and sine-Gordon models

The main purpose of this paper is to extend results, which have been obtained previously to describe the classical scattering of solitons with integrable defects of type I, to include the much larger and intricate collection of finite-gap solutions defined in terms of generalised theta functions. In this context, it is generally not feasible to adopt a direct approach, via ansätze for the fields to either side of the defect tuned to satisfy the defect sewing conditions. Rather, essential use is made of the fact that the defect sewing conditions themselves are intimately related to Bäcklund transformations in order to set up a strategy to enable the calculation of the field on one side by suitably transforming the field on the other side. The method is implemented using Darboux transformations and illustrated in detail for the sine-Gordon and KdV models. An exception, treatable by both methods, indirect and direct, is provided by the genus 1 solutions. These can be expressed in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions, which satisfy a number of useful identities of relevance to this problem. There are new features to the solutions obtained in the finite-gap context but, in all cases, if a (multi)soliton limit is taken within the finite-gap solutions previously known results are recovered.

Kerr–Newman black holes with scalar hair

We construct electrically charged Kerr black holes (BHs) with scalar hair. Firstly, we take an uncharged scalar field, interacting with the electromagnetic field only indirectly, via the background metric. The corresponding family of solutions, dubbed Kerr-Newman BHs with ungauged scalar hair, reduces to (a sub-family of) Kerr-Newman BHs in the limit of vanishing scalar hair and to uncharged rotating boson stars in the limit of vanishing horizon. It adds one extra parameter to the uncharged solutions: the total electric charge. This leading electromagnetic multipole moment is unaffected by the scalar hair and can be computed by using Gauss's law on any closed 2-surface surrounding (a spatial section of) the event horizon. By contrast, the first sub-leading electromagnetic multipole -- the magnetic dipole moment --, gets suppressed by the scalar hair, such that the gyromagnetic ratio is always smaller than the Kerr-Newman value ($g=2$). Secondly, we consider a gauged scalar field and obtain a family of Kerr-Newman BHs with gauged scalar hair. The electrically charged scalar field now stores a part of the total electric charge, which can only be computed by applying Gauss' law at spatial infinity and introduces a new solitonic limit -- electrically charged rotating boson stars. In both cases, we analyse some physical properties of the solutions.