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In the present work we explore features of single and pairs of solitary waves in a fractional variant of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. Motivated by the recent experimental realization of arbitrary fractional exponents, upon…

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A minimal coupling quantum hydrodynamic model of spin-1/2 fermions at the full spin polarization corresponding to a nonlinear Schrodinger equation is considered. The nonlinearity is primarily caused by the Fermi pressure. It provides an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-21 Pavel A. Andreev

We consider solitary wave solutions to the Dirac--Coulomb system both from physical and mathematical points of view. Fermions interacting with gravity in the Newtonian limit are described by the model of Dirac fermions with the Coulomb…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 A. A. Comech , M. A. Zubkov

It is shown that certain fractionally-charged quasiparticles can be modeled on \(D-\)dimensional lattices in terms of unconventional yet simple Fock algebras of creation and annihilation operators. These unconventional Fock algebras are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-23 Emilio Cobanera

We derive a semi-classical effective action and the kinetic equation for massive Dirac fermions in electromagnetic fields. The non-Abelian Berry phase structure emerges from two helicity states of massive fermions with positive energy. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-20 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Jin-yi Pang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

The behavior of fermions in the gauge field created by the energon, a recently found classical solution of the non-Abelian gauge theory, is considered. The spectrum of fermions is evaluated explicitly for the case when parameters governing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Michael Kuchiev

The Dirac equation is solved for two novel terms which describe the interaction energy between the half integral spin of a fermion and the classical, circularly polarized, electromagnetic field. A simple experiment is suggested to test the…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Esposito , M. W. Evans , E. Recami

We investigate a coupled system of a Dirac particle and a pseudoscalar field in the form of a soliton in (1+1) dimensions and find some of its exact solutions numerically. We solve the coupled set of equations self-consistently and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-13 Leila Shahkarami , Siamak S. Gousheh

We study the dynamics of solitons under the action of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice potentials, fractional diffraction, and nonlinearity. The formation and stability of the solitons is investigated in the framework of the fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-11 Eduard Pavlyshynets , Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed , Alexander Yakimenko

The discovery of a new type of solitons occuring in periodic systems without photonic bandgaps is reported. Solitons are nonlinear self-trapped wave packets. They have been extensively studied in many branches of physics. Solitons in…

I present two interesting studies related to the role of solitons in theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking. Quantised fermions coupled to solitons are known to induce fractional fermion number. I present an example where an unstable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Urjit A. Yajnik

We study a chain of anharmonic springs with tunable power law interactions as a minimal model to explore the propagation of strongly non-linear solitary wave excitations in a background of thermal fluctuations. By treating the solitary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Upadhyaya , A. M. Turner , V. Vitelli

We present (exact) solutions of the Dirac equation with equally mixed interactions for a single fermion bounded by the family of fractional power singular potentials. Closed-form expressions as well as numerical values for the energies were…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Davids Agboola , Yao-Zhong Zhang

The scattering of Dirac fermions in the background fields of topological solitons of the $(2+1)$-dimensional nonlinear $O(3)$ $\sigma$-model is studied using both analytical and numerical methods. General formulae describing fermion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 A. Yu. Loginov

We study the spin transport on a S=1/2 antiferromagnetic chain with external fields which provids a phase angle. The equation of motion becomes the sine-Gordon equation after Jordan-Wigner transformation and bosonization. Soliton solutions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-27 Nan-Hong Kuo , Sujit Sarkar , C. D. Hu

Peridynamics describes the nonlinear interactions in spatially extended Hamiltonian systems by nonlocal integro-differential equations, which can be regarded as the natural generalization of lattice models. We prove the existence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Michael Herrmann , Karsten Matthies

The concept of spectrum for a class of non-linear wave equations is studied. Instead of looking for stability, the key to the spectral structure is found in the instability phenomena (bifurcations). This aspect is best seen in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 P. Grochowski , W. Kaniowski , B. Mielnik

We consider the quadratic semilinear wave equation in six dimensions. This energy critical problem admits a ground state solution, which is the unique (up to scaling) positive stationary solution. We prove that any spherically symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Charles Collot , Thomas Duyckaerts , Carlos Kenig , Frank Merle

The spectrum of the fermion zero modes in the vicinity of the vortex with fractional winding number is discussed. This is inspired by the observation of the 1/2 vortex in high-temperature superconductors (Kirtley, et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. E. Volovik

We study Polchinski's "fermion-rotor system" as an accurate description of charged Weyl fermions scattering on a magnetic monopole core in the limit of zero gauge coupling. Traditionally it was thought such scattering could lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Vazha Loladze , Takemichi Okui