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The sine-Gordon model is studied with model parameters that depend on both space and time. An effective model with one degree of freedom is constructed, allowing the description of the kink movement in both a temporally non-autonomous and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-22 Tomasz Dobrowolski , Jacek Gatlik , Zofia Bryłowska , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

The behavior of the kink in the sine-Gordon (sG) model in the presence of periodic inhomogeneity is studied. An ansatz is proposed that allows for the construction of a reliable effective model with two degrees of freedom. Effective models…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-14 Tomasz Dobrowolski , Jacek Gatlik , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

In the present study the interaction of a sine-Gordon kink with a localized inhomogeneity is considered. In the absence of dissipation, the inhomogeneity considered is found to impose a potential energy barrier. The motion of the kink for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-14 Jacek Gatlik , Tomasz Dobrowolski , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Extending a recent effective theory formulation for the dynamics of kinks in the sine-Gordon model [1], we propose an analogous effective description of $\phi^4$ kinks. Three different reduced models based on the kink position, width and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-22 Jacek Gatlik , Tomasz Dobrowolski , Jean-Guy Caputo , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We construct a modified non-BPS sine-Gordon theory which supports stable static kinks of arbitrary topological degree $N$. We use this toy model to study problems which are interesting for higher-dimensional soliton theories supporting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-30 Chris Halcrow , Renjan Rajan John , Anusree N

We modify the recently proposed model of Speight and Ward to make it possess time dependent solutions. We find that for each lattice spacing and for each velocity of the sine Gordon kink we can find a modification of the model for which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 W. J. Zakrzewski

We consider a dc-driven damped sine-Gordon model with a small nonlinear spatial-disorder term, onto which a sinusoidal modulation is superimposed. It describes, e.g., a weakly disordered system with a regular grain structure. We demonstrate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Eva Majernikova , Jaroslav Riedel , Boris A. Malomed

In the present work we explore the interaction of a one-dimensional kink-like front of the sine-Gordon equation moving in 2-dimensional spatial domains. We develop an effective equation describing the kink motion, characterizing its center…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-14 Jacek Gatlik , Tomasz Dobrowolski , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

In the present work we explore the dynamics of single kinks, kink-anti-kink pairs and bound states in the prototypical fractional Klein-Gordon example of the sine-Gordon equation. In particular, we modify the order $\beta$ of the temporal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-14 T. Bountis , J. Cantisán , J. Cuevas-Maraver , J. E. Macías-Díaz , P. G. Kevrekidis

We investigate a mechanical system consisting of infinite number of harmonically coupled pendulums which can impact on two rigid rods. Because of gravitational force the system has two degenerate ground states. The related topological kink…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Arodz , P. Klimas

Dynamics of sine-Gordon kinks in the presence of rapidly varying periodic perturbations of different physical origins is described analytically and numerically. The analytical approach is based on asymptotic expansions, and it allows to…

A spatially-discrete sine-Gordon system with some novel features is described. There is a topological or Bogomol'nyi lower bound on the energy of a kink, and an explicit static kink which saturates this bound. There is no Peierls potential…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Speight , R. S. Ward

We have examined the dynamical behavior of the kink solutions of the one-dimensional sine-Gordon equation in the presence of a spatially periodic parametric perturbation. Our study clarifies and extends the currently available knowledge on…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Angel Sanchez , A R Bishop , Francisco Dominguez-Adame

Dynamics of sine-Gordon kinks in the presence of rapidly varying periodic perturbations of different physical origins is described analytically and numerically. The analytical approach is based on asymptotic expansions, and it allows to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Yuri S. Kivshar , Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Robert D. Parmentier

In this paper, we numerically study the scattering of kinks in the noncanonical sine-Gordon model using Fourier spectral methods. The model depends on two free parameters, which control the localized inner structure in the energy density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-08 I. Takyi , B. Barnes , H. M. Tornyeviadzi , J. Ackora-Prah

We study numerically the kink-fermion interactions in a 1+1 dimensional toy model, which describes sine-Gordon kinks coupled to the massless Dirac fermions with backreaction. We show that the spectrum of fermionic modes strongly depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Vakhid A. Gani , Anastasia Gorina , Ilya Perapechka , Yakov Shnir

We study the evolution of fronts in the Klein-Gordon equation when the nonlinear term is non-homogeneous. Extending previous works on homogeneous nonlinear terms, we describe the derivation of an equation governing the front motion, which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Horacio G. Rotstein , Anatol Zhabotinsky , Irving Epstein

The construction of a nonautonomous mixed mKdV/sine-Gordon model is proposed by employing an infinite dimensional affine Lie algebraic structure within the zero curvature representation. A systematic construction of soliton solutions is…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2010-08-27 J. F. Gomes , G. R. de Melo , L. H. Ymai , A. H. Zimerman

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 present an analytic study of the finite size effects in Sine--Gordon model, based on the semiclassical quantization of an appropriate kink background defined on a cylindrical geometry. The quasi--periodic kink is realized as an elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Mussardo , V. Riva , G. Sotkov
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