Chaotic Character of Two-soliton Collisions in the Weakly Perturbed Nonlinear Schrődinger Equation

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2002

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Dmitriev, Sergey V
Semagin, D A
Shigemari, Takeshi
Sukhorukov, Andrey

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American Physical Society

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We analyze the exact two-soliton solution to the unperturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation and predict that in a weakly perturbed system (i) soliton collisions can be strongly inelastic, (ii) inelastic collisions are of almost nonradiating type, (iii) r

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Keywords: Continuum mechanics; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Perturbation techniques; Phase shift; Probability; Solitons; Inelastic collision; Soliton collisions; Soliton scattering; Plasma collision processes; article

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Physical Review E

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