Tsunami Solitons Emerging from Superconducting Gap
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Daisuke Takahashi
Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University
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soliton, superconductivity, Bogoliubov-de Gennes theory, commuting differential operators, Baker-Akhiezer function, holomorphic bundle, Akhmediev breather, rogue waves, coupled Schr¨odinger-Boussinesq hierarchy, Burchnall-Chaundy lemma, Riemann surfaceAbstract
We propose a classical integrable system exhibiting the tsunami-like solitons with rocky-desert-like disordered stationary background. One of the Lax operators describing this system is interpretable as a Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian in parity-mixed superconductor. The family of integrable equations is generated from this seed operator by Krichever's method, whose pure $s$-wave limit includes the coupled Schrödinger-Boussinesq hierarchy applied to plasma physics. A linearly unstable finite background with superconducting gap supports the tsunami-soliton solution, where the propagation of the step structure turns back at a certain moment, accompanied with the oscillation on the opposite side. In addition, the equation allows inhomogeneous stationary solutions with arbitrary number of bumps at arbitrary positions, which we coin the KdV rocks. In the Zakharov-Shabat scheme, the tsunami solitons are created from the Bogoliubov quasiparticles in energy gap and the KdV rocks from normal electrons/holes. The unexpected large space of stationary solutions comes from the non-coprime Lax pair and the multi-valued Baker-Akhiezer functions on the Riemann surface, formulated in terms of higher-rank holomorphic bundles by Krichever and Novikov. Furthermore, the concept of isodispersive phases is introduced to characterize quasiperiodic multi-tsunami backgrounds and consider its classification.
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