Optical solitons, nonlinear self-adjointness and conservation laws for the cubic nonlinear Shrodinger's equation with repulsive delta potential

Abstract

In this paper, the complex envelope function ansatz method is used to acquire the optical solitons to the cubic nonlinear Shrodinger's equation with repulsive delta potential (delta-NLSE). The method reveals dark and bright optical solitons. The necessary constraint conditions which guarantee the existence of the solitons are also presented. We studied the delta-NLSE by analyzing a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) obtained by decomposing the equation into real and imaginary components. We derive the Lie point symmetry generators of the system and prove that the system is nonlinearly self-adjoint with an explicit form of a differential substitution satisfying the nonlinear self-adjoint condition. Then we use these facts to establish a set of conserved vectors for the system using the general Cls theorem presented by Ibragimov. Some interesting figures for the acquired solutions are also presented. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.