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Resonant scattering of solitons
A E Miroshnichenko1, S Flach, B Malomed
1Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik komplexer Systeme, Nothnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany.
Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)
|August 30, 2003
Abstract:
We study the scattering of solitons in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on local inhomogeneities which may give rise to resonant transmission and reflection. In both cases, we derive resonance conditions for the soliton's velocity. The analytical predictions are tested numerically in regimes characterized by various time scales. Special attention is paid to intermode interactions and their effect on coherence, decoherence, and dephasing of plane-wave modes which build up the soliton.