Spontaneous symmetry breaking of binary fields in a nonlinear double-well structure

PHYSICA D-NONLINEAR PHENOMENA

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Acus, Arturas⁴  Malomed, Boris A.³  Shnir, Yakov^1,2 

[1] Carl von Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Inst Phys, Oldenburg, Germany

[2] BSU, Dept Theoret Phys & Astrophys, Minsk, BELARUS

[3] Tel Aviv Univ, Fac Engn, Sch Elect Engn, Dept Phys Elect, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

[4] Vilnius Univ, Inst Theoret Phys & Astron, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania

关键词: Spontaneous symmetry breaking;    Gross-Pitaevskii equation;    Self-focusing cubic nonlinearity;    Bose-Einstein condensate in two-component systems;    Nonlinear Schroedinger equation;    Bifurcations;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.physd.2012.02.012

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

We introduce a one-dimensional two-component system with the self-focusing cubic nonlinearity concentrated at a symmetric set of two spots. Effects of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of localized modes were previously studied in the single-component version of this system. In this work, we study the evolution (in the configuration space of the system) and SSB scenarios for two-component modes of three generic types, as concerns the spatial symmetry of each component: symmetric-symmetric (Sm-Sm), antisymmetric-antisymmetric (AS-AS), and symmetric-antisymmetric (S-AS) ones. In the limit case of the nonlinear potential represented by two delta-functions, solutions are obtained in a semi-analytical form. They feature novel properties, in comparison with the previously studied single-component model. In particular, the SSB of antisymmetric modes is possible solely in the two-component system, and, obviously. S-AS states exist only in the two-component system too. In the general case of the symmetric pair of finite-width nonlinear potential wells, evolution scenarios are very complex. In this case, new results are reported, first, for the single-component model. These are pairs of broken-antisymmetry modes, and of twin-peak symmetric ones, which are generated by saddle-mode bifurcations separated from the transformations previously studied in the single-component setting. With regard to these findings, complex scenarios of the evolution of the two-component solution families are realized in terms of links connecting pairs of modes of three simplest types: (A) two-component ones with unbroken symmetries; (B) single-component modes featuring density peaks in both potential wells; (C) single-component modes which are trapped, essentially, in a single well. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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