Fine structure of soliton bound states in the parametrically driven, damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Abstract: Static soliton bound states in nonlinear systems are investigated analytically and numerically in the framework of the parametrically driven, damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We find that the ordinary differential equations, which determine bound soliton solutions, can be transformed into the form resembling the Schr\"odinger-like equations for eigenfunctions with the fixed eigenvalues. We assume that a nonlinear part of the equations is close to the reflectionless potential well occurring in the scattering problem, associated with the integrable equations. We show that symmetric two-hump soliton solution is quite well described analytically by the three-soliton formula with the fixed soliton parameters, depending on the strength of parametric pumping and the dissipation constant.