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Peak-height formula for higher-order breathers of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on nonuniform backgrounds
Siu A Chin1, Omar A Ashour1,2, Stanko N Nikolić2,3
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
Abstract:
Given any background (or seed) solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the Darboux transformation can be used to generate higher-order breathers with much greater peak intensities. In this work, we use the Darboux transformation to prove, in a unified manner and without knowing the analytical form of the background solution, that the peak height of a high-order breather is just a sum of peak heights of first-order breathers plus that of the background, irrespective of the specific choice of the background. Detailed results are verified for breathers on a cnoidal background. Generalizations to more extended nonlinear Schrödinger equations, such as the Hirota equation, are indicated.
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