Shape changing and accelerating solitons in the integrable variable mass sine-gordon model

The sine-Gordon model with a variable mass (VMSG) appears in many physical systems, ranging from the current through a nonuniform Josephson junction to DNA-promoter dynamics. Such models are usually nonintegrable with solutions found numerically or perturbatively. We construct a class of VMSG models, integrable at both the classical and the quantum levels with exact soliton solutions, which can accelerate and change their shape, width, and amplitude simulating realistic inhomogeneous systems at certain limits.