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Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators provide a unifying framework for nonlinear optical physics with photonic-integrated technologies and have recently been employed in a wide range of applications from coherent…

We consider a Froehlich-type Hamiltonian on a hexagonal lattice. Aiming to describe nanotubes, we choose this 2-dimensional lattice to be periodic and to have a large extension in one (x) direction and a small extension in the other (y)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Betti Hartmann , Wojtek J. Zakrzewski

We provide a minimal continuum model for mesoscale plasticity, explaining the cellular dislocation structures observed in deformed crystals. Our dislocation density tensor evolves from random, smooth initial conditions to form self-similar…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-03 Yong S. Chen , Woosong Choi , Stefanos Papanikolaou , James P. Sethna

The crystallization of electrons in quasi low-dimensional solids is studied in a model which retains the full three-dimensional nature of the Coulomb interactions. We show that restricting the electron motion to layers (or chains) gives…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Rastelli , P. Quemerais , S. Fratini

We investigate the soliton dynamics for the Schrodinger-Newton system by proving a suitable modulational stability estimates in the spirit of those obtained by Weinstein for local equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Pietro d'Avenia , Marco Squassina

Laser cooled and trapped ions can crystallize and feature discrete solitons, that are nonlinear, topologically-protected configurations of the Coulomb crystal. Such solitons, as their continuum counterparts, can move within the crystal,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 H. Landa , A. Retzker , T. Schaetz , B. Reznik

We demonstrate that periodic modulation of the nonlinearity coefficient in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation can strongly facilitate creation of traveling solitons in the lattice. We predict this possibility in an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-25 Jesus Cuevas , Boris A. Malomed , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

The paper proposes an envelope soliton model of the electron that propagates as a protuberance on a fictitious waveguide, which acts as trajectory. The model is based on de Broglie's original electron wave-particle relativistic theory, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-04 Roald Ekholdt

In the wake of previous studies on the rattling-and-jumping diffusion in smectic liquid crystal phases of colloidal rods, we analyze here for the first time the heterogeneous dynamics in columnar phases. More specifically, we perform…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Simone Belli , Alessandro Patti , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

A vibrational model of transport properties of dense fluids assumes that solid-like oscillations of atoms around their temporary equilibrium positions dominate the dynamical picture. The temporary equilibrium positions of atoms do not form…

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A novel soliton-like solution in quantum electrodynamics is obtained via a self-consistent field method. By writing the Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics in the Coulomb gauge, we separate out a classical component in the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-12 O. D. Skoromnik , I. D. Feranchuk , C. H. Keitel

We show by means of micromagnetic simulations that spin polarizer in nano-contact spin torque oscillators (NC-STOs) as the representative of the fixed layer in an orthogonal pseudo-spin valve (P-SV) can be employed to design and to control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-12 Morteza Mohseni , Majid Mohseni

The purpose of this paper is to propose a revised continuum model from the discrete system introduced in [Deng et.al., PRL, 2017] . Using a Galilean transformation, we obtain an equation governing the soliton solutions in the phase plane -…

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Starting from the hypothesis that the tubulin dimer is a conformationally bistable molecule - fluctuating between a curved and a straight configuration at room temperature - we develop a model for polymorphic dynamics of the microtubule…

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Wigner crystals, lattices made purely of electrons, are a quintessential paradigm of studying correlation-driven quantum phase transitions. Despite decades of research, the internal dynamics of Wigner crystals has remained extremely…

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We present a new hybrid lattice-Boltzmann and Langevin molecular dynamics scheme for simulating the dynamics of suspensions of spherical colloidal particles. The solvent is modeled on the level of the lattice-Boltzmann method while the…

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Gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers offer unprecedented opportunities to observe novel nonlinear phenomena. The various properties of gases that can be used to fill these fibers give additional degrees of freedom for…

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