Nonlinear Sciences – Pattern Formation and Solitons
Scientific paper
2011-11-03
EPL, 96 (2011) 64003
Nonlinear Sciences
Pattern Formation and Solitons
6 pages, 4 figures; accepted to Europhysics Letters, https://www.epletters.net/
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/96/64003
We report on detailed investigation of the stability of localized modes in the nonlinear Schrodinger equations with a nonlinear parity-time (alias PT) symmetric potential. We are particularly focusing on the case where the spatially-dependent nonlinearity is purely imaginary. We compute the Evans function of the linear operator determining the linear stability of localized modes. Results of the Evans function analysis predict that for sufficiently small dissipation localized modes become stable when the propagation constant exceeds certain threshold value. This is the case for periodic and $\tanh$-shaped complex potentials where the modes having widths comparable with or smaller than the characteristic width of the complex potential are stable, while broad modes are unstable. In contrast, in complex potentials that change linearly with transverse coordinate all modes are stable, what suggests that the relation between width of the modes and spatial size of the complex potential define the stability in the general case. These results were confirmed using the direct propagation of the solutions for the mentioned examples.
Kartashov Yaroslav V.
Konotop Vladimir V.
Zezyulin Dmitry A.
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