KINK CAPTURE BY A LOCAL IMPURITY IN THE SINE-GORDON MODEL

被引:14
作者
ZHANG, F
KIVSHAR, YS
MALOMED, BA
VAZQUEZ, L
机构
[1] Departamento de Física Teórica I, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense
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10.1016/0375-9601(91)90440-J
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We demonstrate analytically and numerically that the impurity mode plays a very important role in the kink scattering by a local inhomogeneity, and a sine-Gordon kink may be trapped by an impurity due to loss of its kinetic energy to excite the impurity mode. We develop a collective-coordinate approach to describe the kink-impurity interactions and calculate the threshold velocity of kink capture. Our numerical simulation results are in good agreement with the theoretical prediction.
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页码:318 / 322
页数:5
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