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Fibre-reinforced elastomers are lightweight and strong materials that can sustain large deformations. When filled with magnetic particles, their effective mechanical response can be modified by an external magnetic field. In the present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-25 Harold Berjamin , Stephan Rudykh

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

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In this work, we first prove a stability theorem for traveling waves in a class of non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems with nonlocal dispersal of equal diffusivities. Our stability criterion is in the sense that the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Jong-Shenq Guo , Masahiko Shimojo

The contribution of the polarization associated with the noncollinear parts of spins in the dielectric permeability tensor of multiferroic materials is considered. As the equilibrium state, we consider the systems of parallel spins, so we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Pavel A. Andreev

We design a two-dimensional ultra-thin elastic metasurface consisting of steel cores coated with elliptical rubbers embedded in epoxy matrix, capable of manipulating bulk elastic wave modes for reflected waves. The energy exchanges between…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Pai Peng , Cheng Feng , Kangcheng Zhou

Real magnonic crystals - periodic magnetic media for spin wave (magnon) propagation - may contain some defects. We report theoretical spin wave spectra of a one dimensional magnonic crystal with an isolated defect. The latter is modeled by…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-25 V. V. Kruglyak , M. L. Sokolovskii , V. S. Tkachenko , A. N. Kuchko

Extremal elastic materials here refer to a specific class of elastic materials whose elastic matrices exhibit one or more zero eigenvalues, resulting in soft deformation modes that, in principle, cost no energy. They can be approximated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Yu Wei , Yi Chen , Wen Cheng , Xiaoning Liu , Gengkai Hu

We consider the separate spin evolution of electrons and positrons in electron-positron and electron-positron-ion plasmas. We consider oblique propagating longitudinal waves in this systems. We report presence of the spin-electron acoustic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Pavel A. Andreev , Z. Iqbal

We study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

The dynamics of coherent nonlinear wave groups is shown to be drastically different from the classical scenario of weakly nonlinear wave interactions. The coherent groups generate non-resonant (bound) waves which can be synchronized with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Slunyaev

Spin waves and coupling of the spin waves with electromagnetic waves are considered in the multiferroic materials with the electric dipole moment proportional to the scalar product of spins. Nature of this interaction is discussed within…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-05 Pavel A. Andreev

The propagation of waves in periodic media is related to the parametric oscillators. We transpose the possibility that a parametric pendulum oscillates in the vicinity of its unstable equilibrium positions to the case of waves in lossless…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Nicolas Combe

It has been reported that traveling waves propagate periodically and stably in sub-excitable systems driven by noise [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{88}, 138301 (2002)]. As a further investigation, here we observe different types of traveling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-17 Fen-Ni Si , Quan-Xing Liu , Jin-Zhong Zhang , Lu-Qun Zhou

Nonlinear waves are a robust phenomenon observed in complex systems ranging from mechanics to ecology. Fronts are fundamental due to their robustness against perturbations and capacity to propagate one state over another. Controlling and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-14 David Pinto-Ramos

We establish a connection between the general equations of nonlinear elastodynamics and the nonlinear ordinary differential equation of Pinney [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1950) 681]. As a starting point, we use the exact travelling wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-08 Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

We analyze the propagation of elastic waves in soft materials subjected to finite deformations. We derive explicit dispersion relations, and apply these results to study elastic wave propagation in (i) nearly incompressible materials such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-05 Pavel Galich , Stephan Rudykh

We develop a unified perspective of unidirectional topological edge waves in non-reciprocal media. We focus on the inherent role of photonic spin in non-reciprocal gyroelectric media, ie. magnetized metals or magnetized insulators. We first…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-25 Todd Van Mechelen , Zubin Jacob

Spatially inhomogeneous fields of electromagnetic guided modes exhibit a complex of extraordinary dynamical properties such as the polarization-dependent transverse momentum, helicity-independent transverse spin, spin-associated…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Aleksandr Bekshaev

Processes of propagation and interaction of nonlinear gravity-capillary waves on the free surface of a deep non-conducting liquid with high dielectric constant under the action of a tangential electric field are numerically simulated. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 Evgeny A. Kochurin , Nikolay M. Zubarev

When a solid body floats at the interface of a vibrating liquid bath, the relative motion between the object and interface generates outwardly propagating surface waves. It has recently been demonstrated that millimetric objects with…