Moving breathers and breather-to-soliton conversions for the Hirota equation

作者：Chowdury A^*; Ankiewicz A; Akhmediev N

来源：Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2015, 471(2180): 20150130.

DOI：10.1098/rspa.2015.0130

• Hirota equation
• nonlinear Schrodinger equation
• breather-soliton dynamics
• Darboux transformation

We find that the Hirota equation admits breather-to-soliton conversion at special values of the solution eigenvalues. This occurs for the first-order, as well as higher orders, of breather solutions. An analytic expression for the condition of the transformation is given and several examples of transformations are presented. The values of these special eigenvalues depend on two free parameters that are present in the Hirota equation. We also find that higher order breathers generally have complicated quasi-periodic oscillations along the direction of propagation. Various breather solutions are considered, including the particular case of second-order breathers of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation.

• 出版日期2015-8-8