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We study the diffusion and deformation of classical solitons coupled to thermal noise. The diffusion coefficient for kinks in the $\phi^4$ theory is predicted up to the second order in $kT$. The prediction is verified by numerical…

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A study of the coupling between lattice ion vibrations and electron waves in a piezoelectric semiconductor quantum plasma is presented. The nonlinearities have been analyzed, and solitons have been studied. The theory is built using the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Abhishek Yadav , Punit Kumar

We consider a nonlinear chain of coupled oscillators, which is a direct generalization of the classical FPU lattice and exhibits, besides the usual nearest neighbor interaction, also next-to-nearest neighbor interaction. For the case of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Bastian Hilder , Björn de Rijk , Guido Schneider

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

A fully analytical theory of a traveling soliton in a one-dimensional fermionic superfluid is developed within the framework of time-dependent self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations, which are solved exactly in the Andreev…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-28 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor Galitski

We present a first-principles derivation of the variational equations describing the dynamics of the interaction of a spatial soliton and a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) propagating along a metal/dielectric interface. The variational…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Ferrando , C. Milián , D. V. Skryabin

Accurate modelling of nerve impulse propagation requires accounting for strong higher-order nonlinearities in membrane dynamics, as incorporated in the extended Heimburg-Jackson model. By introducing third- and fourth-order polynomial terms…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 V. A. Mendoza-Millán , J. L. Larios-Ferrer , J. Samuel Millán , O. Pavón-Torres

In this work we revisit the existence, stability and dynamics of unstable traveling solitary waves in the context of lattice dynamical systems. We consider a nonlinear lattice of an $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam type with the additional feature…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-16 H. Duran , H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein

In this paper, we study the smooth transition from solitons to solitary waves in localization, relation between energy and velocity, propagation and scattering property in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice analytically and numerically. A soliton…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-10-03 Zhenying Wen , Jun Tao , Nian Wei

The dynamics of two-component solitons with a small spatial displacement of the high-frequency (HF) component relative to the low-frequency (LF) one is investigated in the framework of the Zakharov-type system. In this system, the evolution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-05 L. G. Blyakhman , E. M. Gromov , B. A. Malomed , V. V. Tyutin

Currently, effective phonons (renormalized or interacting phonons) rather than solitary waves (for short, solitons) are regarded as the energy carriers in nonlinear lattices. In this work, by using the approximate soliton solutions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-12 Yi Ming , Liu Ye , Han-Shuang Chen , Shi-Feng Mao , Hui-Min Li , Ze-Jun Ding

Stability of soliton families in one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations with non-parity-time (PT)-symmetric complex potentials is investigated numerically. It is shown that these solitons can be linearly stable in a wide range of…

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We present a numerical investigation of the propagation dynamics of a truncated Airy pulse in a highly dispersive and nonlinear medium by employing the split-step Fourier transform method and look, in particular, into the effects of fourth…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-19 Deependra Singh Gaur , Ankit Purohit , Akhilesh Kumar Mishra

We investigate the properties of nonlinear excitations in different types of soliton bearing systems with long-range dispersive interaction. We show that length-scale competition in such systems universally results in a multi-component…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter L. Christiansen , Yuri B. Gaididei , Franz G. Mertens , Serge F. Mingaleev

We present, experimentally and numerically, the observation of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence induced by breather solitons in a high-Q SiN microresonator. Breather solitons can be excited by increasing the pump power at a relatively small pump…

Using the Calogero model as an example, we show that the transport in interacting non-dissipative electronic systems is essentially non-linear. Non-linear effects are due to the curvature of the electronic spectrum near the Fermi energy. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Eldad Bettelheim , Alexander G. Abanov , Paul Wiegmann

We suggest a short review of literature on various solitonic lattices and individual solitons in quasi one-dimensional conductors. This information seems to be quite relevant to topics of stripes and their melted phases correspondingly. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-17 Serguei Brazovskii

The pioneering computer simulations of the energy relaxation mechanisms performed by Fermi, Pasta and Ulam can be considered as the first attempt of understanding energy relaxation and thus heat conduction in lattices of nonlinear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Antonio Politi

Consider an infinite chain of masses, each connected to its nearest neighbors by a (nonlinear) spring. This is a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice. We prove the existence of traveling waves in the setting where the masses alternate in size.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Aaron Hoffman , J. Douglas Wright

We consider a class of fully-nonlinear Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattices, consisting of a chain of particles coupled by fractional power nonlinearities of order $\alpha >1$. This class of systems incorporates a classical Hertzian model…

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