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We investigate the time evolution of spherically symmetric radial domain walls (kinks) in the background of a two-way traversable Simpson-Visser wormhole. By numerically solving the scalar-field equation with a double-well potential, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Tian-Chi Ma , Hai-Qing Zhang

The peridynamic model of a solid does not involve spatial gradients of the displacement field and is therefore well suited for studying defect propagation. Here, bond-based peridynamic theory is used to study the equilibrium and steady…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Linjuan Wang , Rohan Abeyaratne

We propose a class of field theories featuring solitonic solutions in which topological defects can end when they intersect other defects of equal or higher dimensionality. Such configurations may be termed ``Dirichlet topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Sean M. Carroll , Mark Trodden

The resonant interaction of the $\phi^4$ kink with a periodic $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric perturbation is observed in the frame of the continuum model and with the help of a two degree of freedom collective variable model derived in PRA 89,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-15 Danial Saadatmand , Denis I. Borisov , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Kun Zhou , Sergey V. Dmitriev

Higher-order scalar field models in two dimensions, including the $\phi^8$ model, have been researched. It has been shown that for some special cases of the minima positions of the potential, the explicit kink solutions can be found.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-26 Aliakbar Moradi Marjaneh , Fabiano C. Simas , D. Bazeia

The dynamics of dissipative topological defects in a system of coupled phase oscillators, arranged in one and two-dimensional arrays, is numerically investigated using the Kuramoto model. After an initial rapid decay of the number of…

Numerical study of order parameter dynamics in the course of second order (Landau-Ginzburg) symmetry breaking transitions shows that the density of topological defects, kinks, is proportional to the fourth root of the rate of the quench.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Pablo Laguna , Wojciech Hubert Zurek

In this work we consider model of asymmetric kinks, where the behavior of the solution in one side is different from the other side. Also, the models depend of an integer $n$ and, with the increase of $n$, the constructed kink assumes a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-13 D. Bazeia , Adalto R. Gomes , Fabiano C. Simas

We investigate correlation effects in two dimensional topological insulators (TI). In the first part, we discuss finite size effects for interacting systems of different sizes in a ribbon geometry. For large systems, there are two pairs of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Tada , R. Peters , M. Oshikawa , A. Koga , N. Kawakami , S. Fujimoto

We examine the problem of the dynamics of interfaces in a one-dimensional space-time discrete dynamical system. Two different regimes are studied : the non-propagating and the propagating one. In the first case, after proving the existence…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 B. Fernandez

The nonlinear evolution of the m=1 internal kink mode is studied numerically in a setting where the tokamak core plasma is surrounded by a turbulent region with low magnetic shear. As a starting point we choose configurations with three…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Bierwage , Sadruddin Benkadda , Satoshi Hamaguchi , Masahiro Wakatani

We investigate a class of scalar field models which engender kink-like solutions in the presence of polynomial potentials that allows for modifications of the tails of the localized configurations. We introduce a parameter in the potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 I. Andrade , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

Fundamental aspects of ultracold collisions between identical bosonic or fermionic dipoles are studied under quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) confinement. In the strongly dipolar regime, bosonic and fermion species are found to share important…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jose P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene

We study the topological properties of one dimensional systems undergoing unitary time evolution. We show that symmetries possessed both by the initial wavefunction and by the Hamiltonian at all times may not be present in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

In this report, the various 1D single soliton and multi-soliton solutions of the Sine-Gordon equation are explored. First the topological kink solitons and their properties for the Sine-Gordon, as well as the $\phi^{4}$ model are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-25 Shivani Sickotra

We study kink-antikink collisions in a model which interpolates smoothly between the completely integrable sine-Gordon theory, the $\phi^4$ model, and a $\phi^6$-like model with three degenerate vacua. We find a rich variety of behaviours,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-13 Patrick Dorey , Anastasia Gorina , Ilya Perapechka , Tomasz Romańczukiewicz , Yakov Shnir

Many-body interactions in topological quantum systems can give rise to new phases of matter, which simultaneously exhibit both rich spatial features and topological properties. In this work, we consider spinless fermions on a checkerboard…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-10 Sergi Julià-Farré , Markus Müller , Maciej Lewenstein , Alexandre Dauphin

We present a model of two-kinks resulting from an explicit composition of two standards kinks of the $\phi^4$ model based on the procedure of Ref. \cite{uchiyama}. The two-kinks have an additional parameter accounting for the separation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-29 T. S. Mendonça , H. P. de Oliveira

In this work, families of kinks are analytically identified in multifield theories with either polynomial or deformed sine-Gordon-type potentials. The underlying procedure not only allows us to obtain analytical solutions for these models,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 A. Alonso-Izquierdo , A. J. Balseyro Sebastian , M. A. Gonzalez Leon

We investigate the dynamics of the kinks that emerge in a one-dimensional scalar field theory with an octic potential containing a quartic minimum and two quadratic minima. We show analytically that kink-antikink and kink-kink pairs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-07 Peru d'Ornellas