A hypergeometric function approach to the persistence problem of single sine-Gordon breathers

A Hypergeometric Function Approach to the Persistence Problem of Single Sine-gordon Breathers

It is shown that for an interesting class of perturbation functions, at most one of the continuum of sine-Gordon breathers can persist for the perturbed equation. This question is much more subtle than the question of persistence of large portions of the family, because analytic continuation arguments in the amplitude parameter are no longer available. Instead, an asymptotic analysis of the obs...

Breathers in the elliptic sine-Gordon model

Scattering of sine-Gordon breathers on a potential well.

We analyze the scattering of the classical sine-Gordon breathers on a square potential well. We show that the scattering process depends not only on the vibration frequency of the breather and its incoming speed but also on its phase as well as the depth and width of the well. We show that the breather can pass through the well and exit with a speed different, sometimes larger, from the initial...

Instability of breathers in the topological discrete sine-Gordon system

It is demonstrated that the breather solutions recently discovered in the weakly coupled topological discrete sine-Gordon system are spectrally unstable. This is in contrast with more conventional spatially discrete systems, whose breathers are always spectrally stable at sufficiently weak coupling.

Quantized Breathers in a Double Sine-gordon System

We examine the excitations of a quasi-one dimensional easy plane antiferromagnet, in a symmetry breaking applied magnetic field. The antiferromagnetic exchange includes a small Dzyaloshinski Moriya component that produces the easy plane. In the classical continuum limit, this system is described by a double-sine-Gordon field theory, which supports soliton excitations and the multi spin wave bou...