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Nonlinear Dirac equation solitary waves under a spinor force with different components

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2017-04-05 v1

Abstract

We consider the nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self-interaction in the presence of external forces as well as damping of the form γ0f(x,t)iμγ0Ψ\gamma^0 f(x,t) - i \mu \gamma^0 \Psi, where both f,{fj=rieiKjx}f, \{f_j = r_i e^{i K_j x} \} and Ψ\Psi are two-component spinors. We develop an approximate variational approach using collective coordinates (CC) for studying the time dependent response of the solitary waves to these external forces. In our previous paper we assumed Kj=K, j=1,2K_j=K, ~ j=1,2 which allowed a transformation to a simplifying coordinate system, and we also assumed the "small" component of the external force was zero. Here we include the effects of the small component and also the case K1K2K_1 \neq K_2 which dramatically modifies the behavior of the solitary wave in the presence of these external forces.

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@article{arxiv.1611.04066,
  title  = {Nonlinear Dirac equation solitary waves under a spinor force with different components},
  author = {Franz G. Mertens and Fred Cooper and Sihong Shao and Niurka R. Quintero and Avadh Saxena and A. R. Bishop},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04066},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1502.08006

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