Two-component breather solution of the nonlinear wave equation

Abstract

A nonlinear wave equation that describes different nonlinear effects in various fields of research was considered. In two particular cases, this equation was reduced to the Sine-Gordon equation and the Born-Infeld equation. Using the slowly varying envelope approximation and the generalized perturbative reduction method, the nonlinear wave equation was transformed to coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations for auxiliary functions. An explicit analytical solution of a nonlinear wave equation in the form of a two-breather molecule was obtained. One breather oscillated with the sum, and the other with the difference of frequencies and wave numbers. The obtained solution coincides with the solutions of the two-breather molecule found in a number of well-known equations from different areas of physics. It is shown that in a particular case of the small amplitude waves, a solution in the form of a two-breather molecule for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation coincides with the vector 0\pi pulse of the self-induced transparency which is presented under less stringent conditions compared to the same solution of this equation obtained earlier.