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Low Reynolds number turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows en route to laminar flow takes the form of spatially intermittent turbulent structures. In plane shear flows, these appear as a regular pattern of alternating turbulent and…

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We address the concept of guiding and transporting matter-wave solitons along the channels of optical lattices made by interference patterns of beams containing topological wavefront dislocations. The local lattice distortions that occur…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

Mixing and heat transfer rates are typically enhanced when operating at high-pressure transcritical turbulent flow regimes. The rapid variation of thermophysical properties in the vicinity of the pseudo-boiling region can be leveraged to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-27 Marc Bernades , Francesco Capuano , Lluis Jofre

Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte

Understanding heat transport in low-dimensional and nano-architectured materials remains a central challenge in nonequilibrium statistical physics due to persistent deviations from Fourier's law. These deviations are driven by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 R. A. C. Correa , K. N. M. Sharma , P. Lolur , J. van Velzen

We theoretically investigate the scattering of bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate on narrow attractive potential wells. Reflection, transmission and trapping of an incident soliton are predicted to occur with remarkably abrupt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-25 T. Ernst , J. Brand

Sixty years ago, Karplus and Luttinger pointed out that quantum particles moving on a lattice could acquire an anomalous transverse velocity in response to a force, providing an explanation for the unusual Hall effect in ferromagnetic…

This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex nonlinear wave patterns supported by purely nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially periodic modulation of the local strength and sign of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Boris A. Malomed , Lluis Torner

In this work, we show that collisions of one type of nonlinear wave can lead to generation of a different kind of nonlinear wave. Specifically, we demonstrate the formation of topological solitons (or transition waves) via collisions of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Hiromi Yasuda , Hang Shu , Weijian Jiao , Vincent Tournat , Jordan R. Raney

In this paper, we examine the conditions under which the nonlinear transport theory is inescapable, when a correlated quantum dot is symmetrically coupled to two leads submitted to temperature and voltage biases. By detailed numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 J. Azema , P. Lombardo , A. -M. Daré

A Thouless pump is a slowly driven one-dimensional band insulator which pumps charge at a quantised rate. Previous work showed that pumping persists in weakly disordered chains, and separately in clean chains at finite drive frequency. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-19 Dominik Vuina , David M. Long , Philip J. D. Crowley , Anushya Chandran

Quantum metric, a probe to spacetime of the Hilbert space, has been found measurable in the nonlinear electronic transport thus has attracted tremendous interest. However, without comparing with mechanisms tied to disorder, it is still…

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Binary discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is used to describe dynamics of two-species Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into an optical lattice. Linear inter-species coupling leads to Rabi transitions between the species. In the regime…

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We characterize photonic transport in a boundary driven array of nonlinear optical cavities. We find that the output field suddenly drops when the chain length is increased beyond a threshold. After this threshold a highly chaotic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Kamanasish Debnath , Eduardo Mascarenhas , Vincenzo Savona

We describe wave propagation and soliton localization in photonic lattices which are induced in a nonlinear medium by an optical interference pattern, taking into account the inherent lattice deformations at the soliton location. We obtain…

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This study investigates chaotic diffusion in multi-scale turbulence driven by nonlinear wave-particle resonance coupling. Turbulent waves with distinct characteristic wavelengths across scales coherently interact with charged particles when…

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We study a spherical, self-gravitating fluid model, which finds applications in cosmic structure formation. We argue that since the system features nonlinearity and gravity-induced dispersion, the emergence of solitons becomes possible. We…

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It is shown that matter solitons can be effectively managed by means of smooth variations of parameters of optical lattices in which the condensate is loaded. The phenomenon is based on the effect of lattice modulations on the carrier wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Brazhnyi , V. V. Konotop , V. Kuzmiak

In fluids and plasmas with zonal flow reversed shear, a peculiar kind of transport barrier appears in the shearless region, one that is associated with a proper route of transition to chaos. Using a symplectic nontwist maps, which model…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. D. Szezech , I. L. Caldas , S. R. Lopes , P. J. Morrison , R. L. Viana

One of the most fundamental difference between classical and quantum mechanics is observed in the particle tunneling through a localized potential: the former predicts a discontinuous transmission coefficient ($T$) as a function in incident…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 Ching-Hao Wang , Tzay-Ming Hong , Ray-Kuang Lee , Daw-Wei Wang