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The approach of nonequilibrium evolution thermodynamics earlier offered is developed. It helps to describe the processes of defect formation within the adiabatic approximation. The basic equations system depends on the initial defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-23 A. V. Khomenko , D. S. Troshchenko , L. S. Metlov

There has been much recent interest and progress on topological structures of the non-Hermitian Bloch bands. Here, we study the topological structures of non-Bloch bands of non-Hermitian multiband quantum systems under open boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Yongxu Fu , Yi Zhang

In pattern-forming systems, localized patterns are states of intermediate complexity between fully extended ordered patterns and completely irregular patterns. They are formed by stationary fronts enclosing an ordered pattern inside an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-08-06 G. Kozyreff , S. J. Chapman

Non-Hermitian systems can exhibit unique topological and localization properties. Here we elucidate the non-Hermitian effects on disordered topological systems by studying a non-Hermitian disordered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Dan-Wei Zhang , Ling-Zhi Tang , Li-Jun Lang , Hui Yan , Shi-Liang Zhu

We discuss the modelling of grain boundary dynamics within an amplitude equations description, which is derived from classical density functional theory or the phase field crystal model. The relation between the conditions for periodicity…

A new class of pattern forming systems is identified and investigated: anisotropic systems that are spatially inhomogeneous along the direction perpendicular to the preferred one. By studying the generic amplitude equation of this new class…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-10-28 B. Kaoui , A. Guckenberger , A. Krekhov , F. Ziebert , W. Zimmermann

Large twist-angle grain boundaries in layered structures are often described by Scherk's first surface whereas small twist-angle grain boundaries are usually described in terms of an array of screw dislocations. We show that there is no…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Randall D. Kamien , T. C. Lubensky

We study a Helmholtz-type spectral problem in a two-dimensional medium consisting of a fully periodic background structure and a perturbation in form of a line defect. The defect is aligned along one of the coordinate axes, periodic in that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Vu Hoang , Maria Radosz

A realistic material may possess defects, which often bring the material new properties that have practical applications. The boundary defects of a two-dimensional topologically ordered system are thought of as an alternative way of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-19 Hongyu Wang , Yuting Hu , Yidun Wan

Stationary periodic patterns are widespread in natural sciences, ranging from nano-scale electrochemical and amphiphilic systems to mesoscale fluid, chemical and biological media and to macro-scale vegetation and cloud patterns. Their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-03 Alon Z. Shapira , Hannes Uecker , Arik Yochelis

We propose a general formalism to characterize orientational frustration of smectic liquid crystals in confinement by interpreting the emerging networks of grain boundaries as objects with a topological charge. In a formal idealization,…

Non-Hermitian band theory distinguishes between line gaps and point gaps. While point gaps can give rise to intrinsic non-Hermitian band topology without Hermitian counterparts, line-gapped systems can always be adiabatically deformed to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Frank Schindler , Kaiyuan Gu , Biao Lian , Kohei Kawabata

A continuum dislocation model of formation of grains whose boundaries have a non-vanishing thickness is proposed. For a single crystal deforming in simple shear the lamellar structure of grains with thin layers containing dislocations as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Michael Koster , Khanh Chau Le

In this paper, we establish the existence of a positive, bounded solution for a class of parabolic partial differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions, where the boundary conditions depend on the solution on the boundary at a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Gangadhara Boregowda , Michael R. Lindstrom

We investigate anomalous localization phenomena in non-Hermitian systems by solving a class of generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger/Rice-Mele models and by relating their provenance to fundamental notions of topology, symmetry-breaking and…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-29 Maria Zelenayova , Emil J. Bergholtz

We demonstrate that crystal defects can act as a probe of intrinsic non-Hermitian topology. In particular, in point-gapped systems with periodic boundary conditions, a pair of dislocations may induce a non-Hermitian skin effect, where an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Frank Schindler , Abhinav Prem

While topology can impose obstructions to exponentially localized Wannier functions, certain topological insulators are exempt from such Wannier obstructions. The absence of the Wannier obstructions can further accompany topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Daichi Nakamura , Ken Shiozaki , Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato , Kohei Kawabata

We justify supercritical geometric optics in small time for the defocusing semiclassical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation for a large class of non-necessarily homogeneous nonlinearities. The case of a half-space with Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 D. Chiron , F. Rousset

A subcritical pattern-forming system with nonlinear advection in a bounded domain is recast as a slow-fast system in space and studied using a combination of geometric singular perturbation theory and numerical continuation. Two types of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-20 Daniele Avitabile , Mathieu Desroches , Edgar Knobloch , Martin Krupa

Robustness against small perturbations is a crucial feature of topological properties. This robustness is both a source of theoretical interest and a drive for technological applications, but presents a challenge when looking for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Cyrill Bösch , Tena Dubček , Frank Schindler , Andreas Fichtner , Marc Serra-Garcia