Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We study two-dimensional stationary soliton gas in the framework of the time-independent reduction of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KPII) equation, which coincides with the integrable two-way “good” Boussinesq equation in the x y plane. This ( 2 + 0 ) D reduction enables the construction of the spatial analog of the kinetic equation for the stationary gas of KP solitons by invoking recent results on ( 1 + 1 ) D bidirectional soliton gases and generalized hydrodynamics of the Boussinesq equation. We then use the spectral kinetic theory to analytically describe two basic types of 2D soliton gas interactions: (i) refraction of a line soliton by a stationary soliton gas, and (ii) oblique interference of two soliton gases. We verify the analytical predictions by numerically implementing the corresponding KPII soliton gases via exact N -soliton solutions with N -large and appropriately chosen random distributions for the soliton parameters. We also explicitly evaluate the long-distance correlations for the two-component interference configurations. The results can be applied to a variety of physical systems, from shallow water waves to Bose-Einstein condensates.
Source: Physical Review Research
Language: English
Topic: Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,625
OpenAlex ID: W4407253433