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We consider Hamiltonians associated to optimal control problems for affine systems on the torus. They are not coercive and are possibly unbounded from below in the direction of the drift of the system. The main assumption is the strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Martino Bardi

This study explores the scattering dynamics of kinks within a nonlinear system governed by a parameterized potential $U_\lambda(\chi)$, examining the distinct behaviors of small and large kinks across a range of $\lambda$ values and initial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-21 Aliakbar Moradi Marjaneh , Dionisio Bazeia

We investigate zero and finite temperature properties of the one-dimensional spin-glass model for vector spins in the limit of an infinite number m of spin components where the interactions decay with a power, \sigma, of the distance. A…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-27 Frank Beyer , Martin Weigel , M. A. Moore

We revisit the problem of the three-soliton collisions in the weakly perturbed sine-Gordon equation and develop an effective three-particle model allowing to explain many interesting features observed in numerical simulations of the soliton…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey V. Dmitriev , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Yuri S. Kivshar

We study the elasticity of the collision of two kinks with an incoming low speed $v\in (0,1)$ for the nonlinear wave equation in dimension $1+1$ known as the $\phi^{6}$ model. We prove for any $k\in\mathbb{N}$ that if the incoming speed $v$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Abdon Moutinho

We study travelling kinks in the spatial discretizations of the nonlinear Klein--Gordon equation, which include the discrete $\phi^4$ lattice and the discrete sine--Gordon lattice. The differential advance-delay equation for travelling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Gerard Iooss , Dmitry Pelinovsky

We study numerically the kink-fermion interactions in a 1+1 dimensional toy model, which describes sine-Gordon kinks coupled to the massless Dirac fermions with backreaction. We show that the spectrum of fermionic modes strongly depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Vakhid A. Gani , Anastasia Gorina , Ilya Perapechka , Yakov Shnir

The spectral properties of $su(2)$ Hamiltonians are studied for energies near the critical classical energy $\epsilon_c$ for which the corresponding classical dynamics presents hyperbolic points (HP). A general method leading to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pedro Ribeiro , Thierry Paul

We investigate a mechanical system consisting of infinite number of harmonically coupled pendulums which can impact on two rigid rods. Because of gravitational force the system has two degenerate ground states. The related topological kink…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Arodz , P. Klimas

This article presents the generalization of a zero spin hydrogen atom to a relativistic atomic model of hydrogen with dyons using the Klein--Gordon equation. The derivation of the Klein--Gordon equation for the particle of relative motion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Edison Fernando García Veloz , Clara Rojas

Homoclinic chaos is usually examined with the hypothesis of hyperbolicity of the critical point. We consider here, following a (suitably adjusted) classical analytic method, the case of non-hyperbolic points and show that, under a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Cicogna , M. Santoprete

In the first part of this paper, we apply a well known discrete-to-continuum approach to a Frenkel-Kontorova-type model of an infinitely long one-dimensional chain of atoms weakly interacting with a line of fixed atoms. The rescaled model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Dmitry Golovaty , J. Patrick Wilber

We study persistence of periodic and homoclinic orbits, first integrals and commutative vector fields in dynamical systems depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$ and give several necessary conditions for their persistence. Here we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Shoya Motonaga , Kazuyuki Yagasaki

In kinetic theory, the classic $n \Sigma v$ approach calculates the rate of particle interactions from local quantities: the number density of particles $n$, the cross-section $\Sigma$, and the average relative speed $v$. In stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-07 Elisha Modelevsky , Nicholas C. Stone , Re'em Sari

We theoretically investigate the critical velocity for dissipationless motion of a two-dimensional superfluid past a static potential barrier of large width. The circular-shaped barrier provides a comprehensive analytical framework for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-23 Juliette Huynh , Frédéric Hébert , Mathias Albert , Pierre-Élie Larré

We study the kinematic and thermal vorticities in low-energy heavy-ion collisions by using the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model. We explore their time evolution and spatial distribution. We find that the initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Xian-Gai Deng , Xu-Guang Huang , Yu-Gang Ma , Song Zhang

We formulate the effective Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory of the semimetal-insulator transitions on the honeycomb lattice and compute its quantum critical behavior near three (spatial) dimensions. We find that at the critical point Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-15 Igor F. Herbut , Vladimir Juricic , Oskar Vafek

We study collisions of kinks in the one-space and one-time dimensional noncanonical nonintegrable scalar $\phi^{6}$ model. We examine the energy density of the kink, and we find that, as a function of the parameters that control the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 I. Takyi , S. Gyampoh , B. Barnes , J. Ackora-Prah , G. A. Okyere

A spatially-discrete sine-Gordon system with some novel features is described. There is a topological or Bogomol'nyi lower bound on the energy of a kink, and an explicit static kink which saturates this bound. There is no Peierls potential…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Speight , R. S. Ward

For second-order elliptic or parabolic equations with subcritical or critical drifts, it is well-known that the Harnack inequality holds and their bounded weak solutions are H\"older continuous. We construct time-independent supercritical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Bian Wu