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A chain of interacting particles subject also to a nonlinear on-site potential admits stable soliton-like configurations : static kinks. The linear normal-modes around such a kink contain a discrete set of localized, gap-separated modes.…

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We present a review of our recent works directed towards discovery of a periodic, kink-like and soliton-like travelling wave solutions within the models of transport phenomena and the mathematical biology. Analytical description of these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Vsevolod A. Vladimirov , Ekaterina V. Kutafina , Anna Pudelko

We give an exhaustive, non-perturbative classification of exact travelling-wave solutions of a perturbed sine-Gordon equation (on the real line or on the circle) which is used to describe the Josephson effect in the theory of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Gaetano Fiore , Gabriele Guerriero , Alfonso Maio , Enrico Mazziotti

Kinks, point-like geometrical defects along dislocations, domain walls, and DNA, are stable and mobile, as solutions of a sine-Gordon wave equation. While they are widely investigated for crystal deformations and domain wall motions,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-06 Jinwon Lee , Jae Whan Park , Gil-Young Cho , Han Woong Yeom

We prove the existence of periodic travelling wave solutions for general discrete nonlinear Klein-Gordon systems, considering both cases of hard and soft on-site potentials. In the case of hard on-site potentials we implement a fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Dirk Hennig , Nikos I. Karachalios

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

Kinks (or domain walls) are localized transitions between distinct ground states associated with a topological invariant, and are central to many phenomena across physics, from condensed matter to cosmology. While phonon (i.e.,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-25 Kai Qian , Nan Cheng , Francesco Serafin , Kai Sun , Georgios Theocharis , Xiaoming Mao , Nicholas Boechler

The aim of this work is to establish a linear instability result of stationary, kink and kink/anti-kink soliton profile solutions for the sine-Gordon equation on a metric graph with a structure represented by a $\mathcal Y$-junction. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

Directed motion of topological solitons (kinks or antikinks) in the damped and AC-driven discrete sine-Gordon system is investigated. We show that if the driving field breaks certain time-space symmetries, the soliton can perform…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Zolotaryuk , Mario Salerno

The low-energy physics of (quasi)degenerate one-dimensional systems is typically understood as the particle-like dynamics of kinks between stable, ordered structures. Such dynamics, we show, becomes highly non-trivial when the ground states…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-27 Cristiano Nisoli , Alexander V. Balatsky

The sine-Gordon model with space- and time-dependent parameters is considered. A highly accurate effective model with two degrees of freedom is constructed, allowing the description of the kink movement in this model even for extremely long…

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

The sine-Gordon equation on a metric graph with a structure represented by a $\mathcal{Y}$-junction, is considered. The model is endowed with boundary conditions at the graph-vertex of $\delta'$-interaction type, expressing continuity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

We study the dynamical response of a diatomic periodic chain of rotors coupled by springs, whose unit cell breaks spatial inversion symmetry. In the continuum description, we derive a nonlinear field theory which admits topological kinks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-08 Yujie Zhou , Bryan Gin-ge Chen , Nitin Upadhyaya , Vincenzo Vitelli

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

We study deterministic escape dynamics in the framework of the discrete Klein-Gordon modelwith a repulsive quartic on-site potential. Using a combination of analytical techniques, based on differential and algebraic inequalities and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 V. Achilleos , A. Álvarez , J. Cuevas , D. J. Frantzeskakis , N. I. Karachalios , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. Sánchez-Rey

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

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

A discrete Klein-Gordon model with asymmetric potential that supports kinks free of the Peierls-Nabarro potential (PNp) is constructed. Undamped ratchet of kinks under harmonic AC driving force is investigated in this model numerically and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergey V. Dmitriev , Avinash Khare , Sergey V. Suchkov

The equilibrium states of one-dimensional proton conductors in the systems with hydrogen bonds are investigated. Our extended hard-core boson lattice model includes short-range interactions between hydrogen ions, their transfer along the…

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