Instability theory of kink and anti-kink profiles for the sine-Gordon equation on Josephson tricrystal boundaries

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the linear and nonlinear instability of kink and antikink solutions in the sine-Gordon equation on a Y-junction graph, using operator theory and boundary conditions, with implications for wave stability in complex networks.

Contribution

It introduces a stability analysis framework for sine-Gordon kink profiles on Josephson tricrystal junctions with delta-prime boundary conditions, extending to other configurations.

Findings

Kink and antikink profiles are linearly unstable.

The analysis employs extension theory, Sturm-Liouville, and perturbation methods.

Local well-posedness of the sine-Gordon model is established.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to establish a instability study for stationary kink and antikink/kink profiles solutions for the sine-Gordon equation on a metric graph with a structure represented by a Y-junction so-called a Josephson tricrystal junction. By considering boundary conditions at the graph-vertex of $\delta'$-interaction type, it is shown that these kink-soliton type stationary profiles are linearly (and nonlinearly) unstable. The extension theory of symmetric operators, Sturm-Liouville oscillation results and analytic perturbation theory of operators are fundamental ingredients in the stability analysis. The local well-posedness of the sine-Gordon model in $H^1(Y)\times L^2(Y)$ is also established. The theory developed in this investigation has prospects for the study of the (in)-stability of stationary wave solutions of other configurations for kink-solitons profiles.