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We numerically determine the robustness of the lasing edge modes in a spin-torque oscillator array that realizes the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Previous studies found that the linearized dynamics can enter a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Pieter M. Gunnink , Benedetta Flebus , Hilary M. Hurst , Rembert A. Duine

We address the formation of \{chi}(2) topological edge solitons emerging in topologically nontrivial phase in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) waveguide arrays. We consider edge solitons, whose fundamental frequency (FF) component belongs to the…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-11 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We present a new paradigm for generating complex structured materials based on the three-gap theorem that unifies and generalises several key concepts in the study of localised edge states. Our model has both the discretised coupling…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Yinglai Wang , Bryn Davies , Marc Martí-Sabaté

In nonlinear topological systems, edge solitons either originate from linear topological edge modes or emerge as nonlinearity-induced localized states without topological protection. While electric circuits (ECs) provide a platform for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-26 Rujiang Li , Xiangyu Kong , Wencai Wang , Yixi Wang , Yongtao Jia , Huibin Tao , Pengfei Li , Ying Liu , Boris A. Malomed

The on-site potentials may break the symmetry of a system, resulting in the loss of its original topology protected by the symmetry. In this work, we study the counteracting effect of non-Hermitian terms on real potentials, resulting in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-09 E. S. Ma , K. L. Zhang , Z. Song

Non-Hermitian lattices with non-reciprocal couplings under open boundary conditions are known to possess linear modes exponentially localized on one edge of the chain. This phenomenon, dubbed non-Hermitian skin effect, induces all input…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-25 Bertin Many Manda , Ricardo Carretero-González , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Vassos Achilleos

Discrete solitons of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (dNLS) equation become compactly supported in the anti-continuum limit of the zero coupling between lattice sites. Eigenvalues of the linearization of the dNLS equation at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-06 Dmitry Pelinovsky , Anton Sakovich

We address the formation of topological edge solitons in rotating Su-Schrieffer-Heeger waveguide arrays. The linear spectrum of the non-rotating topological array is characterized by the presence of topological gap with two edge states…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-28 Sergey K. Ivanov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

This paper experimentally investigates topologically protected edge modes in a water wave channel through a direct geometric mapping to the one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. By designing a periodic channel with alternating…

We describe a mechanism that results in the nonlinear instability of stationary states even in the case where the stationary states are linearly stable. This instability is due to the nonlinearity-induced coupling of the linearization's…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , A. Saxena

In the present work, we generalize earlier considerations for intrinsic localized modes consisting of a few excited sites, as developed in the one-component discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation model, to the case of two-component…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-29 K. Li , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Susanto , V. Rothos

We address the existence and stability of localized modes in the two-dimensional (2D) linear Schroedinger lattice with two symmetric nonlinear sites embedded into it, and a generalization for moderately localized nonlinearity featuring two…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Boris A. Malomed

We study the existence and stability of localized states in the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (DNLS) on two-dimensional non-square lattices. The model includes both the nearest-neighbor and long-range interactions. For the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , Yu. B. Gaididei

A potential weakness of topological waveguides is that they act on a fixed narrow band of frequencies. However, by 3D printing samples from a photo-responsive polymer, we can obtain a device whose operating frequency can be fine-tuned…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 G. J. Chaplain , A. S. Gliozzi , B. Davies , D. Urban , E. Descrovi , F. Bosia , R. V. Craster

We investigate the topological physics and the nonlinearity-induced trap phenomenon in a coupled system of pendulums. It is described by the dimerized sine-Gordon model, which is a combination of the sine-Gordon model and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Motohiko Ezawa

We propose a method to address the existence of topological edge modes in one-dimensional (1D) nonlinearlattices, by deforming the edge modes of linearized models into solutions of the fully nonlinear system. Forlarge enough nonlinearites,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-17 Lucien Jezequel , Pierre Delplace

We investigate dynamical aspects of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (DNLS) in finite lattices. Starting from a periodic chain with nearest neighbor interactions, we insert randomly links connecting distant pairs of sites…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-01-27 F. Perakis , G. P. Tsironis

Intriguing issues in one-dimensional non-reciprocal topological systems include the breakdown of usual bulk-edge correspondence and the occurrence of half-integer topological invariants. In order to understand these unusual topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Hui Jiang , Rong Lü , Shu Chen

We derive a class of discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (DNLS) equations for general polynomial nonlinearity whose stationary solutions can be found from a reduced two-point algebraic problem. It is demonstrated that the derived class of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Dmitriev , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. A. Sukhorukov , N. Yoshikawa , S. Takeno

Topological metamaterials promise unprecedented wave control. Here, we theoretically and numerically investigate a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) inspired stiffness dimer modified with a local resonator, which imparts a…