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We review recent progress in the dynamics of nonlinear lattice waves in heterogeneous media, which enforce complete wave localization in the linear wave equation limit, especially Anderson localization for random potentials, and Aubry-Andre…

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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…

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This paper investigates the dynamics of compact localized modes in one-dimensional flat-band elastic lattices. Flat dispersion arises from destructive interference between neighboring elements, resulting in a zero group velocity across all…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Emanuele Riva , Jacopo Marconi , Francesco Braghin

We generate compact localized states in an electrical diamond lattice, comprised of only capacitors and inductors, via local driving near its flatband frequency. We compare experimental results to numerical simulations and find very good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Carys Chase-Mayoral , L. Q. English , Yeongjun Kim , Sanghoon Lee , Noah Lape , Alexei Andreanov , P. G. Kevrekidis , Sergej Flach

We construct a class of exact commensurate and incommensurate standing wave (SW) solutions in a piecewise smooth analogue of the discrete non-linear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) model and present their linear stability analysis. In the case of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Subhendu Panda , Anindita Lahiri , Tarun K. Roy , Avijit Lahiri

Intrinsic localized modes, also called discrete breathers, can exist under certain conditions in one-dimensional nonlinear electrical lattices driven by external harmonic excitations. In this work, we have studied experimentally the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-06-12 F. Palmero , J. Cuevas-Maraver , L. Q. English , R. Chacón

Localization of waves by disorder is a fundamental physical problem encompassing a diverse spectrum of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies in the context of metal-insulator transition, quantum Hall effect, light propagation in…

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We demonstrate multiple flat bands and compact localized states (CLSs) in a photonic super-Kagome lattice (SKL) that exhibits coexistence of singular and nonsingular flat bands within its unique band structure. Specifically, we find that…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-19 Limin Song , Shenyi Gao , Jina Ma , Liqin Tang , Daohong Song , Yigang Li , Zhigang Chen

Existence of localized modes supported by the PT-symmetric nonlinear lattices is reported. The system considered reveals unusual properties: unlike other typical dissipative systems it possesses families (branches) of solutions, which can…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-04-28 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Flatbands (FB) with compact localized eigenstates (CLS) fall into three main categories, controlled by the algebraic properties of the CLS set: orthogonal, linearly independent, linearly dependent (singular). A CLS parametrization allows us…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yeongjun Kim , Sergej Flach , Alexei Andreanov

We describe a nonlinear kagome lattice with nonlinear dynamics described by Klein-Gordon interactions with a scalar unknown at each node, such as might occur in a nonlinear electrical lattice. We show that the dispersion relation has three…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Jonathan AD Wattis , Pilar R Gordoa , Andrew Pickering

Symmetries are known to dictate important physical properties and can be used as a design principle in particular in wave physics, including wave structures and the resulting propagation dynamics. Local symmetries, in the sense of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 P. Schmelcher

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

In this work, we revisit the classic model of diatomic chain with cubic nonlinearity and investigate the formation mechanism of nonlinear localized time-periodic solutions (breathers) with frequencies exited the spectral bands. First we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-10 Huajie Song , Haitao Xu

It is commonly held that a necessary condition for the existence of solitons in nonlinear-wave systems is that the soliton's frequency (spatial or temporal) must not fall into the continuous spectrum of radiation modes. However, this is not…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. R. Champneys , B. A. Malomed , J. Yang , D. J. Kaup

Discrete breathers are ubiquitous structures in nonlinear anharmonic models ranging from the prototypical example of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model to Klein-Gordon nonlinear lattices, among many others. We propose a general criterion for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-26 Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Dmitry Pelinovsky

The nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation is considered on a periodic metric graph subject to the Kirchhoff boundary conditions. Bifurcations of standing localized waves for frequencies lying below the bottom of the linear spectrum of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

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

We investigate stationary solutions of a non-local aggregation equation with degenerate power-law diffusion and bounded attractive potential in arbitrary dimensions. Compact stationary solutions are characterized and compactness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Gunnar Kaib

We report the results of systematic investigation of localized dynamical states in the model of a one-dimensional magnetic wire, which is based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. The dissipative term in the LLG equation is…