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We consider a long Josephson junction excited by a suitable external ac-signal, in order to generate control and detect breathers. Studying the nonlinear supratransmission phenomenon in a nonlinear sine-Gordon chain sinusoidally driven,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-05 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo

In this work, we explore a prototypical example of a genuine continuum breather (i.e., not a standing wave) and the conditions under which it can persist in a $\mathcal{P T}$-symmetric medium. As our model of interest, we will explore the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-21 N. Lu , J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this report, the various 1D single soliton and multi-soliton solutions of the Sine-Gordon equation are explored. First the topological kink solitons and their properties for the Sine-Gordon, as well as the $\phi^{4}$ model are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-25 Shivani Sickotra

We construct infinitely many real-valued, time-periodic breather solutions of power-type nonlinear wave equations. These solutions are obtained from critical points of a dual functional and they are weakly localized in space. Our abstract…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Rainer Mandel , Dominic Scheider

We propose a procedure for computing the direct scattering transform of the periodic sine-Gordon equation. This procedure, previously used within the periodic Korteweg-de Vries equation framework, is implemented for the case of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-08 Filip Novkoski , Eric Falcon , Chi-Tuong Pham

In this work, we will use inverse scattering transform to study the semi-discrete Gardner equation under two types of non-vanishing boundary conditions, and investigate two interesting nonlinear waves in the presence of discrete spectrum,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Jia-Xue Niu , Yan-Nan Zhao , Rui Guo , Jian-Wen Zhang

Nonlinear dynamics of surface gravity waves trapped by an opposing jet current is studied analytically and numerically. For wave fields narrowband in frequency but not necessarily with narrow angular distributions the developed asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-17 Victor Shrira , Alexey Slunyaev

Klein-Gordon equations describe the dynamics of waves/particles in sub-atomic scales. For nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations, their breather solutions are usually known as time periodic solutions with the vanishing spatial-boundary condition.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-15 Yasuhiro Takei , Yoritaka Iwata

We present analytical and numerical studies of phase-coherent dynamics of intrinsically localized excitations (breathers) in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear oscillator chains. We show that there are two qualitatively different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuriy A. Kosevich , Leonid I. Manevitch , Alexander V. Savin

The graphene superlattice equation, a modified sine-Gordon equation, governs the propagation of solitary electromagnetic waves in a graphene superlattice. This equation has kink solutions without explicit analytical expression, requiring…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-04 Francisca Martin-Vergara , Francisco Rus , Francisco R. Villatoro

We give an exhaustive, non-perturbative classification of exact travelling-wave solutions of a perturbed sine-Gordon equation (on the real line or on the circle) which is used to describe the Josephson effect in the theory of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Gaetano Fiore , Gabriele Guerriero , Alfonso Maio , Enrico Mazziotti

It is shown that the topological discrete sine-Gordon system introduced by Speight and Ward models the dynamics of an infinite uniform chain of electric dipoles constrained to rotate in a plane containing the chain. Such a chain admits a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-11-12 J. M. Speight , Y. Zolotaryuk

Dynamics of sine-Gordon kinks in the presence of rapidly varying periodic perturbations of different physical origins is described analytically and numerically. The analytical approach is based on asymptotic expansions, and it allows to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Yuri S. Kivshar , Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Robert D. Parmentier

We construct series solutions to all orders for breathers of Klein-Gordon equations, in powers of an amplitude parameter epsilon, under a sign condition on the coefficients of the expansion of the nonlinearity. All terms may be computed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Satyanad Kichenassamy

We study nonlinear excitations propagating in a hexagonal layer which is a model for the cation layer of silicates. We consider their properties in the frequency-momentum or $\omega-k$ representation, extending the theory on pterobreathers…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-09-08 Jānis Bajārs , Juan F. R. Archilla

Noisy and ac forcing can cooperatively lead to the emergence of sine-Gordon breathers robust to dissipation. This phenomenon is studied, for both Neumann and periodic boundary conditions (NBC and PBC, respectively), at different values of…

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We study the thermal equilibrium of nonlinear Klein-Gordon chains at the limit of small coupling (anticontinuum limit). We show that the persistence distribution associated to the local energy density is a useful tool to study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean Farago

In this paper we investigate the emergence of time-periodic and and time-quasiperiodic (sometimes infinitely long lived and sometimes very long lived or metastable) solutions of discrete nonlinear wave equations: discrete sine Gordon,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Kevrekidis , M. I. Weinstein

This work studies the dynamics of solutions to the sine-Gordon equation posed on a tadpole graph $G$ and endowed with boundary conditions at the vertex of $\delta$-type. The latter generalize conditions of Neumann-Kirchhoff type. The…

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