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We uncover subtle and previously unexplored phenomena arising from the interplay of nonlinearity and nonreciprocity in topological mechanical metamaterials. We study a nonreciprocal topological Klein-Gordon chain of asymmetrically coupled…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-10 Bertin Many Manda , Vassos Achilleos

Whereas there exists a mathematical proof for one--site breathers stability, and an unpublished one for two--sites breathers, the methods for determining the stability properties of multibreathers rely in numerical computation of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 J. F. R. Archilla , J. Cuevas , B. Sánchez Rey , A. Alvarez

We consider the sine-Gordon equation on metric graphs with simple topologies and derive vertex boundary conditions from the fundamental conservation laws, such as energy and current conservation. Traveling wave solutions for star and tree…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-03 Zarif Sobirov , Doniyor Babajanov , Davron Matrasulov , Katsuhiro Nakamura , Hannes Uecker

In the present work, we develop a systematic examination of the existence, stability and dynamical properties of a discrete breather at the interface between a diatomic and a monoatomic granular chain. We remarkably find that such an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-12-14 C. Hoogeboom , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We establish the asymptotic stability of the sine-Gordon kink under odd perturbations that are sufficiently small in a weighted Sobolev norm. Our approach is perturbative and does not rely on the complete integrability of the sine-Gordon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Jonas Luhrmann , Wilhelm Schlag

We consider a previously experimentally realized discrete model that describes a mechanical metamaterial consisting of a chain of pairs of rigid units connected by flexible hinges. Upon analyzing the linear band structure of the model, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-15 H. Duran , J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein

In the present work, we explore the possibility of excited breather states in a nonlinear Klein--Gordon lattice to become nonlinearly unstable, even if they are found to be spectrally stable. The mechanism for this fundamentally nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We analyze a version of the sine-Gordon model in which the strength of the cosine potential has a periodic dependence on time. This model can be considered as the continuum limit of the many body generalization of the Kapitza pendulum.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Zoltan Bajnok , Robin Oberfrank

Balanced gain and loss renders the mean-field description of Bose-Einstein condensates PT symmetric. However, any experimental realization has to deal with unbalancing in the gain and loss contributions breaking the PT symmetry. We will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Philipp Lunt , Daniel Haag , Dennis Dast , Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner

Recently it was discussed the Inverse Scattering Method, Part I. (paper I.) . It was a methodological Part with an example - soliton (kink) solution of the Sine-Gordon Equation. The aim of the paper I. was to introduce the Inverse…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-05-15 Jana Tothova , Matej Hudak

In connection with the the thermalization problem in isolated quantum systems, we investigate the dynamics following a quantum quench of the sine-Gordon model in the Luther-Emery and the semiclassical limits. We consider the quench from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-04-15 A. Iucci , M. A. Cazalilla

The dynamical symmetry breaking associated with the existence and non-existence of breather solutions is studied. Here, nonlinear hyperbolic evolution equations are calculated using a high-precision numerical scheme. %%% First, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Yasuhiro Takei , Yoritaka Iwata

A quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a quasi-periodic potential created by two sub-lattices of comparable amplitudes and incommensurate periods is considered. Although the conventional tight-binding approximation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Vladimir V. Konotop

In strained monoatomic chains with Lennard-Jones interactions, we revealed a stable static non-homogeneous structure appearing as a result of a certain phase transition. Positions of individual particles in this structure form an exact…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-09-25 G. M. Chechin , V. S. Lapina

We study a new family of models of the sine-Gordon type, starting from the sine-Gordon model, including the double sine-Gordon, the triple one, and so on. The models appears as deformations of the starting model, with the deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-13 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , R. Menezes , Roldao da Rocha

We prove the existence of discrete breathers (time-periodic, spatially localized solutions) in weakly coupled ferromagnetic spin chains with easy-axis anisotropy. Using numerical methods we then investigate the continuation of discrete…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Speight , P. M. Sutcliffe

We compute the boundary scattering amplitudes of the breathers of the supersymmetric sine-Gordon model using the fusion of the soliton-antisoliton pair scattering with the boundary with a known result of the soliton boundary scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Changrim Ahn , Wai Ming Koo

This work focuses on the study of time-periodic solutions, including breathers, in a nonlinear lattice consisting of elements whose contacts alternate between strain-hardening and strain-softening. The existence, stability, and bifurcation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-05-24 Marisa M. Lee , Efstathios G. Charalampidis , Siyuan Xing , Christopher Chong , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We study the Cauchy problem for the sine-Gordon equation in the semiclassical limit with pure-impulse initial data of sufficient strength to generate both high-frequency rotational motion near the peak of the impulse profile and also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Robert J. Buckingham , Peter D. Miller

We study the perturbed sine-Gordon equation $\theta_{tt}-\theta_{xx}+\sin \theta= F(\varepsilon,x)$, where $F$ is of differentiability class $C^n$ in $\varepsilon$ and the first $k$ derivatives vanish at $0$, i.e., $\partial_\varepsilon^l…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Timur Mashkin