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This article offers a review of results for solitons in 2D and 3D models of nonlinear dissipative media. The existence of such solitons requires to maintain two balances: between nonlinear self-focusing and linear diffraction and/or…

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We analyze the dynamical evolution of the current and the charge density in a superlattice for fixed external dc voltage in the regime of self-sustained current oscillations, using a microscopic sequential tunneling model. Fronts of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Amann , J. Schlesner , A. Wacker , E. Schöll

The main part of the thesis deals with continuously and discretely self-similar solutions and type II critical phenomena in a family of self-gravitating non-linear sigma-models. The phenomena strongly depend on the dimensionless coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christiane Lechner

In a benchmark dynamical-lattice model in three dimensions, the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation, we find discrete vortex solitons with various values of the topological charge $S$. Stability regions for the vortices with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis , R. Carretero-González

Dilaton stabilization may occur in a theory based on a single asymptotically free gauge group with matter due to an interplay between quantum modification of the moduli space and tree-level superpotential. We present a toy model where such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Gia Dvali , Zurab Kakushadze

A stochastic discrete drift-diffusion model is proposed to account for the effects of shot noise in weakly coupled, highly doped semiconductor superlattices. Their current-voltage characteristics consist of a number stable multistable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. L. Bonilla , O. Sanchez , J. Soler

Current-controlled negative differential resistance has significant potential as a fundamental building block in brain-inspired neuromorphic computing. However, achieving desired negative differential resistance characteristics, which is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Shuai Li , Xinjun Liu , Sanjoy Kumar Nandi , Shimul Kanti Nath , Robert G. Elliman

A semiconductor superlattice with hot electron injection into the miniband is considered. The injection changes the stationary distribution function and results in a qualitative change of the frequency behaviour of the differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. A. Ryndyk , N. V. Demarina , J. Keller , E. Schomburg

We study a toy model for a superconductor on a bipartite lattice, where intrinsic pairing inhomogeneity is produced by two different coupling constants on the sublattices. The simplicity of the model allows for analytic solutions and tests…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-10-27 Vivek Mishra , P. J. Hirschfeld , Yu. S. Barash

We study a model describing electronic transport in a weakly-coupled semiconductor superlattice with a shunting side layer. Key parameters include the lateral size of the superlattice, the connectivity between the quantum wells of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-14 Huidong Xu , Andreas Amann , Eckehard Schöll , Stephen W. Teitsworth

We consider a variational anti-plane lattice model and demonstrate that at zero temperature, there exist locally stable states containing screw dislocations, given conditions on the distance between the dislocations, and on the distance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Thomas Hudson , Christoph Ortner

We analytically study stability of sliding lattice of Josephson vortices driven by a transport current in the stack direction in strong in-plane magnetic field. In contrast to recent findings we obtain that there are no diverse…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 S. N. Artemenko , S. V. Remizov

We report that infinite and semi-infinite lattices with spatially inhomogeneous self-defocusing (SDF)\ onsite nonlinearity, whose strength increases rapidly enough toward the lattice periphery, support stable unstaggered (UnST) discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-17 Goran Gligoric , Aleksandra Maluckov , Ljupco Hadzievski , Boris Malomed

In a semiconductor superlattice with long scattering times, damping of Bloch oscillations due to scattering is so small that nonlinearities may compensate it and Bloch oscillations persist even in the hydrodynamic regime. To demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 L. L. Bonilla , M. Álvaro , M. Carretero

We show that space-charge instabilities (electric field domains) in semiconductor superlattices are the attribute of absolute negative conductance induced by small constant and large alternating electric fields. We propose the efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill N. Alekseev , Maxim V. Gorkunov , Natalia V. Demarina , Timo Hyart , Natalia V. Alexeeva , Aleksey V. Shorokhov

We address the properties of defect solitons (DSs) in defective parity-time potentials with real part of dual-frequency lattices. The impact of defect on stability regions of DSs was considered. For positive defects, DSs whose…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-03-16 Yunji Meng , Youwen Liu , Peining Li

We present a novel scheme to stabilize high-frequency domain oscillations in semiconductor superlattices by a time-delayed feedback loop. Applying concepts from chaos control theory we propose to control the spatio-temporal dynamics of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Schlesner , A. Amann , N. B. Janson , W. Just , E. Schöll

Weak turbulence is a phenomenon by which a system generically transfers energy from low to high wave numbers, while persisting for all finite time. It has been conjectured by Bourgain that the 2D defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Aquil D. Jones , Gideon Simpson , William Wilson

The Bragg-Williams free energy is used to incorporate nearest-neighbor interactions into the lattice gas model of a solvent-free ionic liquid near a planar electrode. We calculate the differential capacitance from solutions of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Rachel Downing , Bjorn K. Berntson , Guilherme V. Bossa , Sylvio May

A discrete model is introduced to account for the time-periodic oscillations of the photocurrent in a superlattice observed by Kwok et al, in an undoped 40 period AlAs/GaAs superlattice. Basic ingredients are an effective negative…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 L. L. Bonilla , J. Galan , J. A. Cuesta , F. C. Martinez , J. M. Molera