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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2021

Incoherent localized structures and hidden coherent solitons from the gravitational instability of the Schrödinger-Poisson equation

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The long-term behavior of a modulationally unstable conservative nonintegrable system is known to be characterized by the soliton turbulence self-organization process. We consider this problem in the presence of a long-range interaction in the framework of the Schrödinger-Poisson (or Newton-Schrödinger) equation accounting for the gravitational interaction. By increasing the amount of nonlinearity, the system self-organizes into a large-scale incoherent localized structure that contains “hidden” coherent soliton states: The solitons can hardly be identified in the usual spatial or spectral domains, but their existence can be unveiled in the phase-space representation (spectrogram). We develop a theoretical approach that provides the coupled description of the coherent soliton component [governed by the Schrödinger-Poisson equation (SPE)] and of the incoherent structure [governed by a wave turbulence Vlasov-Poisson equation (WT-VPE)]. We demonstrate theoretically and numerically that the incoherent structure introduces an effective trapping potential that stabilizes the hidden coherent soliton and we show that the incoherent structure belongs to a family of stationary solutions of the WT-VPE. The analysis reveals that the incoherent structure evolves in the strongly nonlinear regime and that it is characterized by a compactly supported spectral shape. By relating the analytical properties of the hidden soliton to those of the stationary incoherent structure, we clarify the quantum-to-classical (i.e., SPE-to-VPE) correspondence in the limit /m0: The hidden soliton appears as the latest residual quantum correction preceding the classical limit described by the VPE. This study is of potential interest for self-gravitating Boson models of fuzzy dark matter. Although we focus our paper on the Schrödinger-Poisson equation, we show that the regime of hidden solitons stabilized by an incoherent structure is general for long-range wave systems featured by an algebraic decay of the interacting potential. This work should stimulate nonlinear optics experiments in highly nonlocal nonlinear (thermal) media that mimic the long-range nature of gravitational interactions.

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hal-03339559 , version 1 (09-09-2021)

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Josselin Garnier, Kilian Baudin, Adrien Fusaro, Antonio Picozzi. Incoherent localized structures and hidden coherent solitons from the gravitational instability of the Schrödinger-Poisson equation. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2021, 104 (5), pp.054205. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.104.054205⟩. ⟨hal-03339559⟩
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