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Directed motion of topological solitons (kinks or antikinks) in the damped and AC-driven discrete sine-Gordon system is investigated. We show that if the driving field breaks certain time-space symmetries, the soliton can perform…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Zolotaryuk , Mario Salerno

Amontons' law postulates a monotonic relationship between frictional force and the normal load applied to a sliding contact. This empirical rule, however, fails in systems where internal degrees of freedom - such as structural or electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Hongri Gu , Anton Lüders , Clemens Bechinger

We investigate the propagation of a wave--packet in the $\phi^4$ model. We solve the time-dependent equation of motion for two distinct initial conditions: The wave-packet in a trivial vacuum background and in the background of the kink…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-08-31 A. M. H. H. Abdelhady , H. Weigel

The elastic interaction between kinks (and antikinks) within domain walls plays a pivotal role in shaping the domain structure, and their dynamics. In bulk materials, kinks interact as elastic monopoles, dependent on the distance between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 John J R Scott , Guangming Lu , Brian J. Rodriguez , Ian MacLaren , Ekhard K. H. Salje , Miryam Arredondo

In this Letter, we address the {long-range interaction} between kinks and antikinks, as well as kinks and kinks, in $\varphi^{2n+4}$ field theories for $n>1$. The kink-antikink interaction is generically attractive, while the kink-kink…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Ivan C. Christov , Robert J. Decker , A. Demirkaya , Vakhid A. Gani , P. G. Kevrekidis , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

We consider a prototypical model in which a nonlinear field (continuum or discrete) evolves on a flexible substrate which feeds back to the evolution of the main field. We identify the underlying physics and potential applications of such a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , A. R. Bishop

In the present work, we carry out the study of scattering solitons for the anti-kink/kink and kink/anti-kink configurations. Furthermore, we can observe the same effects as those described by D. Bazeia et al.. We apply the collective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-09 C. F. S. Pereira , Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho , T. Tassis

We demonstrate the existence and stability of one-dimensional (1D) topological kink configurations immersed in higher-dimensional bosonic gases and nonlinear optical setups. Our analysis pertains, in particular, to the two- and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-31 S. I. Mistakidis , G. Bougas , G. C. Katsimiga , P. G. Kevrekidis

We address the weak interaction of a pair of well-separated pure-quartic solitons (PQSs), which are solutions to a generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) with the quartic-only dispersion. An asymptotic technique is applied to…

In this paper we examine the scattering processes among the members of a rich family of kinks which arise in a (1+1)-dimensional relativistic two scalar field theory. These kinks carry two different topological charges that determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-10 A. Alonso-Izquierdo

The main objective of this thesis has been to analyse soliton dynamics in detail, with special attention paid to the role of the internal modes associated with these configurations. Specifically, the thesis has focused on the study of one-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 S. Navarro-Obregón

The paper is devoted to the dynamics of dissipative gap solitons in the periodically corrugated optical waveguides whose spectrum of linear excitations contains a mode that can be referred to as a quasi-Bound State in the Continuum. These…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-08 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

Collective coordinate methods are frequently applied to study dynamical properties of solitons. These methods simplify the field equations - typically partial differential equations - to ordinary differential equations for selected…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-03-28 Herbert Weigel

We consider the $\phi^4$ model in one space dimension with propagation speeds that are small deviations from a constant function. In the constant-speed case, a stationary solution called the kink is known explicitly, and the recent work of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Stanley Snelson

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

We study the dynamical response of a diatomic periodic chain of rotors coupled by springs, whose unit cell breaks spatial inversion symmetry. In the continuum description, we derive a nonlinear field theory which admits topological kinks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-08 Yujie Zhou , Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Nitin Upadhyaya , Vincenzo Vitelli

A spectral wall is a surface in a moduli space of classically BPS solitons where an internal excitation crosses the continuum mass threshold. It has recently been shown that spectral walls in classical field theory repel solitons whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Jarah Evslin , Chris Halcrow , Tomasz Romanczukiewicz , Andrzej Wereszczynski

Kinks (or domain walls) are localized transitions between distinct ground states associated with a topological invariant, and are central to many phenomena across physics, from condensed matter to cosmology. While phonon (i.e.,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-25 Kai Qian , Nan Cheng , Francesco Serafin , Kai Sun , Georgios Theocharis , Xiaoming Mao , Nicholas Boechler

The aim of this work is to establish a linear instability result of stationary, kink and kink/anti-kink soliton profile solutions for the sine-Gordon equation on a metric graph with a structure represented by a $\mathcal Y$-junction. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

The symmetry breaking Freedericksz transitions, when a uniformly aligned nematic state is replaced by a homogeneously or periodically distorted state, have been extensively studied before. Here we analyse the influence of the saddle-splay…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-03 O. V. Manyuhina