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In this paper, we introduce and propose exact and explicit analytical solutions to a novel model of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. This model is derived as the equation governing the dynamics of modulated cutoff waves in a discrete nonlinear electrical lattice. It is characterized by the addition of two terms that involve time derivatives to the classical equation. Through those terms, our model is also tantamount to a generalized NLS equation with saturable; which suggests that the discrete electrical transmission lines can potentially be used to experimentally investigate wave propagation in media that are modeled by such type of nonlinearity. We demonstrate that the new terms can enlarge considerably the forms of the solutions as compared to similar NLS-type equations. Sine–Gordon expansion-method is used to derive numerous kink, antikink, dark, and bright soliton solutions.
Nonlinear equations are widely used as models to describe many important dynamical phenomena in various fields of sciences, particularly in nonlinear optics,[1–4] in plasma physics,[5,6] in biophysics,[7] in Bose–Einstein condensates,[8] in atomic chain,[9,10] in Fermi–Pasta–Ulam lattice,[11,12] in crystals,[13–16] and in discrete electrical transmission lines.[17–24] Among these equations, the famous nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is usually derived from fundamental principles as a primary approximation. As such, its suitability for the accurate description of the phenomena of interest in these fields can be limited. This has aroused the interest in investigation approaches that relax some of the assumptions that are usually considered in a first approximation. Such approaches often lead to generalized forms of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation rather than the standard one. Consider for instance a discrete nonlinear electrical transmission line (DNLTL) that consists of a number of identical LC blocks connected in sequence one to the other. Each block, whose model is presented in Fig.
We assume that the capacitance–voltage relationships are approximated by
Applying Kirchhoff laws to this circuit leads to the following set of differential equations governing the dynamics of signals in the network[15]
A basic approximation that is commonly made in investigating equations of this type consists in taking their solutions in the form A0exp(i(kn–ωt)) while assuming A0 to be infinitesimally small. Such solutions are characterized the so-called linear dispersion relation, given in our case by
Focusing our attention on waves with frequencies approaching the lower cutoff frequency of the lattice but with amplitude of arbitrary magnitude, we look for a solution of Eq. (
This equation differs from the classical NLS equation by the two terms of cubic nonlinearity in its right-hand-side. It is worth to observe that these terms involve derivatives with respect to the variable attached with the first order derivative in the standard NLS equation. Although the s2-term can be considered to be common in NLS type equations with saturable nonlinearity, the s1-term as well as the full right-hand-side of Eq. (
Our investigations in this work then aim to determine exact and explicit analytical solutions to this new model of NLS equation. To this end, our paper is organized as follows. The next section begins with the reduction of the extended NLS equation to a single nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE). Sine–Gordon expansion-method, which is among the most powerful and effective method devised by mathematicians and physicists to find exact solutions of ODEs is then briefly outlined. In Section
Over the past several decades, many research works have focused on techniques for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). A first step in most of these techniques consists in reducing the PDEs in consideration into ODEs. In this view, we are interested in this paper by the class of solutions of Eq. (
The next step after transforming the PDEs into ODEs is the effective determination of solutions to the latter. A first approach toward this goal for our problem is a direct integration from the first integral
The alternative approach preferred herein rely on the variety of methods available in the literature to deal with this task and which avoid the direct integration. Examples are the (G′/G)-expansion method,[46,47] the exp-expansion method,[48] the extended F-expansion method,[49] the bifurcation method of dynamical system,[50,51] the Jacobi elliptic function rational expansion method,[52] the tanh-function method,[53,54] the tan-expansion method,[55] the transformed rational function method,[56,57] the semi-inverse variational principle,[58] the Hirota bilinear method,[59–62] the variable coefficient Jacobian elliptic function method,[63] the sine-Gordon expansion approach,[64–67] and others. For our problem, the sine-Gordon expansion-method has revealed to be very effective. An important advantage of this techniques is that the computations involved can be systematically performed by a computer algebra system such as Maple or Mathematica. Below, it is briefly reviewed and used later to find various forms of solution to Eq. (
In this subsection we present the sine-Gordon expansion method which will later be utilized to investigate the solitary waves that can propagate through our discrete electric transmission line. This method is based on sine-Gordon equation and the traveling wave transformation.[68–70]
In fact, consider a nonlinear partial differential equations (NLPDEs) with two independent variables x and t,
We organize our search of solutions according to whether the coefficient of the quintic term is nonzero or not.
We deal first with the most general situation where the coefficient of the quintic term is nonzero, i.e.,
According to Eqs. (
According to Eqs. (
When either of the conditions ve = 0 or s1 = −s2 or s1 = 36s2/5 is realized, equation (
In this paper, we have introduced a novel model of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation containing nonlinear time-derivative terms which make the model to be equivalent to a generalized NLS equation with saturable nonlinearities. This new type of NLS equation has been obtained herein as the one governing the dynamics of modulated gap waves in a basic discrete electrical transmission line.
Seeking analytical solutions of our model, we have shown that the new terms induce an additional quintic term in the Duffing oscillator when the classical travelling wave transformation is used to reduce the NLS equation to an ODE. The sine-Gordon expansion-method has been employed to obtain varied exact analytical solutions of the model. Four types of solutions, namely the kink soliton, the antikink soliton, the dark soliton, and the bright soliton have been obtained. Such solutions give rise to particle-like structures, such as magnetic monopoles, and extended structures, like, domain walls and cosmic strings, that have implications in cosmology of the early universe.[73] As such, the results reported here can be of significant importance for such problems as the transmission of information in nonlinear waveguide, in nonlinear electrical transmission lines and many other domains. Likewise, the sine-Gordon expansion-method used here is powerful and can be also applied to other nonlinear equations in mathematical physics.
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