Abstract
We study a model derived by Fei et al. [Phys. Rev. A 45 (1992) 6019] of a kink solution to the sine-Gordon equation interacting with an impurity mode. The model is a two degree of freedomHamiltonian system. We investigate this model using the tools of dynamical systems, and show that it exhibits a variety of interesting behaviors including transverse heteroclinic orbits to degenerate equilibria at infinity, chaotic dynamics, and an extremely complex and delicate structure describing the interaction of the kink with the defect. We interpret this in terms of phase space transporttheory.
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Publication
Physica D
Roy Goodman
Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Mathematical Sciences
My research interests include dynamical systems and nonlinear waves, vortex dynamics, quantum graphs, and network inference
Philip Holmes
Professor Emeritus
