Abstract An easy and general way to access more complex soliton phenomena is introduced in this paper. The collision process between two solitons of the KdV equation is investigated in great detail with this novel approach, which is different from the sophisticated method of inverse scattering transformation. A more physical and transparent picture describing the collision of solitons is presented.
Received: 15 March 2001
Revised: 09 May 2001
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
03.75.Lm
(Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations)
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