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We investigate the formation of stable one-dimensional N\'eel walls in a ferromagnetic slab with finite thickness and finite width. Taking into account the dipolar, the exchange and the uniaxial anisotropic crystalline field interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael M. Fernandes , Harry Westfahl , Rogério Magalhães-Paniago , Leticia N. Coelho

In recent years, the study of topologically non-trivial structures in one-dimensional models has been dominated by the Su--Schrieffer--Heeger model due to its simplicity in design and its ability to support edge states with robustness to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Valerii Kachin , Juan Camilo López Carreño , Magdalena Stobińska

We consider the stability of front-type modulated waves in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGL). The waves occur in the bistable regime (e.g. of the quintic CGL) and connect the zero state to a spatially homogenous state oscillating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Wolf-Jürgen Beyn , Christian Döding

Motionless domains walls representing heteroclinic temporal or spatial orbits typically exist only for very specific parameters. This report introduces a novel mechanism for stabilizing temporal domain walls away from the Maxwell point…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-18 J. Javaloyes , T. Ackemann , A. Hurtado

Bound states in the continuum, originally proposed within the framework of quantum mechanics, have since been observed in a variety of physical contexts, including electromagnetism, acoustics, and optics. Of particular interest are those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Dunkan Martinez , Rodrigo P A Lima , Alexander Lopez , Francisco Dominguez-Adame , Pedro A Orellana

Topological photonic edge states are conventionally formed at the interface between two domains of topologically trivial and nontrivial photonic crystals. Recent works exploiting photonic quantum Hall and quantum valley Hall effects have…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Zhihao Lan , Menglin L. N. Chen , Jian Wei You , Wei E. I. Sha

We discuss metastable states in the mean-field version of the strong coupling BCS-model and study the evolution of a superconducting equilibrium state subjected to a dynamical semi-group with Lindblad generator in detailed balance w.r.t.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joris Lauwers , Andre Verbeure

Computer simulations of a model glass-forming system are presented, which are particularly sensitive to the correlation between the dynamics and the topography of the potential energy landscape. This analysis clearly reveals that in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephan Buechner , Andreas Heuer

We show theoretically that in the superconducting nanostructures the gapped states of different topology are not always protected by separating gapped states. Depending on the structure design parameters, they can be either protected or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Xiao-Li Huang , Yuli V. Nazarov

It is proposed that a lattice, with constituent masses and spring constants, may be considered as a model system for topological matter. For instance, a relative variation of the inter- and intra-unit cell spring constants can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Yun Zhou , Prabhakar Bandaru , Daniel Sievenpiper

In systems that exhibit a bistability between nonlinear traveling waves and the basic state, pairs of fronts connecting these two states can form localized wave pulses whose stability depends on the interaction between the fronts. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 Catherine Crawford , Hermann Riecke

Topological metamaterials have invaded the mechanical world, demonstrating acoustic cloaking and waveguiding at finite frequencies and variable, tunable elastic response at zero frequency. Zero frequency topological states have previously…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-05 Adrien Saremi , D. Zeb Rocklin

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have been studied mainly in optics. Recently, electronic BIC have been proposed. They appear as points in the momentum space and are protected topologically by the Chern number. In this study, we propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Manabu Takeichi , Shuichi Murakami

We propose a phenomenological yet very general model in a form of generalized complex Ginzburg-Landau equation to understand the dynamics of the quasi-periodic fluid instabilities (called edge-localized modes) in the boundary of toroidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Youngmin Oh , Hyung Ju Hwang , Michael Leconte , Gunsu S. Yun

We apply two independent data analysis methodologies to locate stable climate states in an intermediate complexity climate model and analyze their interplay. First, drawing from the theory of quasipotentials, and viewing the state space as…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Georgios Margazoglou , Tobias Grafke , Alessandro Laio , Valerio Lucarini

The control of plasma-wall interactions is crucial to fusion devices from both physical and mathematical perspectives. It is well known that a magnetic field satisfying the classical perfect conducting conditions at the wall, $$ \mathbf{E}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Hongjie Dong , Yan Guo , Timur Yastrzhembskiy

The proposition that band geometry alone can protect optical states against disorder has proven not merely theoretically elegant but experimentally incontrovertible. A key attribute of photonic topological systems is their capacity to…

Topological edge solitons propagating along the edge of a photonic topological insulator are localized self-sustained hybrid states that are immune to de-fects/disorders due to protection of the edge states stemming from nontrivial topology…

Rozowsky, Volkas and Wali recently found interesting numerical solutions to the field equations for a gauged U1xU1 scalar field model. Their solutions describe a reflection-symmetric domain wall with scalar fields and coupled gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Damien P. George , Raymond R. Volkas

The stability of cosmological event and Cauchy horizons of spacetimes associated with plane symmetric domain walls are studied. It is found that both horizons are not stable against perturbations of null fluids and massless scalar fields;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Anzhong Wang , Patricio S. Letelier