Nonstandard bilinearization and interaction phenomenon for PT-symmetric coupled nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equations

We develop a nonstandard bilinearization procedure to generate more general bright soliton, breather soliton and quasi-rogue wave solutions for the PT-symmetric coupled nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger (CNNLS) equations. We achieve some novel solutions by bilinearizing both the CNNLS equations and their associated auxiliary equations in a novel way. The soliton equations are written into bilinear operator forms by means of auxiliary equations, then the 1-soliton solution and 2-soliton solution of PT-symmetric CNNLS equations are constructed. Some novel interaction properties of the PT-symmetric two-soliton solutions are derived, which can present the potential applications to the soliton wave phenomena in nonlocal wave models. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.