Numerical study of vector solitons with the oscillatory phase backgrounds in the integrable coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Lei Liu, Xuan-Xuan Zhou, Xi-Yang Xie and Wen-Rong Sun

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 2025, vol. 228, issue C, 466-484

Abstract: In this paper, we numerically investigate vector solitons with oscillatory phase backgrounds in the integrable coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations, which are widely applied to varieties of physical contexts such as the simultaneous propagation of nonlinear optical pulses and the dynamics of two-components Bose–Einstein condensates. We develop the time-splitting Chebyshev–Galerkin method based on a transformation to accurately compute the vector soliton solutions. Compared to the finite difference method, numerical experiments show that the method with spectral accuracy and high efficiency is necessary for simulating the dynamics evolution of vector solitons. Combined with modulation instability conditions, linear stability analysis and direct numerical simulation, we reveal that the bright-dark and dark-dark solitons with various combinations of parameters under perturbations have qualitative differences. Particularly, vector solitons in unstable background with different wave numbers present distinct dynamics evolutions. The results help us to understand soliton dynamics with oscillatory phase backgrounds and the superposition between nonlinear waves.

Keywords: Coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations; Vector solitons; Time-splitting spectral method; Modulation instability; Linear stability analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378475424003641
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:matcom:v:228:y:2025:i:c:p:466-484

DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2024.09.009

Access Statistics for this article

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) is currently edited by Robert Beauwens

More articles in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().