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Droplet solitons are coherently precessing solitary waves that have been recently realized in thin ferromagnets with perpendicular anisotropy.In the strongly nonlinear regime, droplets can be well approximated by a slowly precessing,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-12 Lake Bookman , Mark Hoefer

We show that the phenomenon of modulational instability in arrays of Bose-Einstein condensates confined to optical lattices gives rise to coherent spatial structures of localized excitations. These excitations represent thin disks in 1D,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. B. Baizakov , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

Model order reduction in high-dimensional, nonlinear dynamical systems if often enabled through fast-slow timescale separation. One such approach involves identifying a low-dimensional slow manifold to which the state rapidly converges and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Dan Wilson

We address the physics of nematic liquid crystalline elastomers randomly crosslinked in the isotropic state. To do this, we construct a phenomenological effective replica Hamiltonian in terms of two order-parameter fields: one for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-01-10 Bing-Sui Lu , Fangfu Ye , Xiangjun Xing , Paul M. Goldbart

Nonlinear plastic modes (NPMs) are collective displacements that are indicative of imminent plastic instabilities in elastic solids. In this work we formulate the atomistic theory that describes the reversible evolution of NPMs and their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 Edan Lerner

In this paper we studied the weakly nonlinear stage of stationary convective instability in a nonuniformly rotating layer of an electrically conductive fluid in an axial uniform magnetic field under the influence of: a) temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

Pattern formation in systems with a conserved quantity is considered by studying the appropriate amplitude equations. The conservation law leads to a large-scale neutral mode that must be included in the asymptotic analysis for pattern…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 P. C. Matthews , S. M. Cox

The properties of liquid crystals can be modelled using an order parameter which describes the variability of the local orientation of rod-like molecules. Defects in the director field can arise due to external factors such as applied…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Craig S. MacDonald , John A. Mackenzie , Alison Ramage

While fundamental-mode discrete solitons have been demonstrated with both self-focusing and defocusing nonlinearity, high-order-mode localized states in waveguide lattices have been studied thus far only for the self-focusing case. In this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Susanto , Z. Chen

In this short topical review, we revisit a number of works on the pattern-forming dynamical instabilities of Bose-Einstein condensates in one- and two-dimensional settings. In particular, we illustrate the trapping conditions that allow the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We study the structure and stability of nonlinear impurity modes in the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a single on-site nonlinear impurity emphasizing the effects of interplay between discreteness, nonlinearity and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Yuri S. Kivshar , Alexander S. Kovalev

We studied equilibrium systems composed of wedge-shaped monodisperse molecules using hard-particle Monte Carlo simulations. Each model molecule was made up of six colinear tangent spheres with linearly decreasing diameters. Thus, the shape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-26 Piotr Kubala , Michał Cieśla , Lech Longa

We study the properties of modulational instability and discrete breathers arising in a quasi-one-dimensional discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equation with Lee-Huang-Yang corrections. Conditions for modulation instability and instability regions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-01 Sherzod R. Otajonov , Bakhram A. Umarov , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev

We use molecular dynamics to study the ordering of a nematic liquid crystal around a spherical particle or droplet. Homeotropic boundary conditions and strong anchoring create a hedgehog director configuration on the particle surface and in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-19 D. Andrienko , G. Germano , M. P. Allen

We show that the moduli spaces of stable sheaves on projective schemes admit certain non-commutative structures, which we call quasi NC structures, generalizing Kapranov's NC structures. The completion of our quasi NC structure at a closed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Yukinobu Toda

We study pattern-forming nonlinear dynamics starting from a continuous wave state of quasi-one-dimensional two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with synthetic spin-orbit coupling induced by Raman lasers. Modulation instability can occur…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-20 Thudiyangal Mithun , Kenichi Kasamatsu

Many physical systems involve two types of orientational order, which are coupled together. For example, ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals have coupled polar and nematic order, and tilted hexatic phases have coupled polar and hexatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-16 Lincoln Paik , Jonathan V. Selinger

We demonstrate several examples of driving and steering of colloids when dispersed in nematic liquid crystals. The driving mechanism is based on the principle of nonlinear electrophoresis which is mediated by the asymmetry in the structure…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-28 S. Hernàndez-Navarro , P. Tierno , J. Ignés-Mullol , F. Sagués

Recent theoretical research has developed a general framework to understand director deformations and modulated phases in nematic liquid crystals. In this framework, there are four fundamental director deformation modes: twist, bend, splay,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-08 Michely P. Rosseto , Jonathan V. Selinger

In the aerospace industry the trend for light-weight structures and the resulting complex dynamic behaviours currently challenge vibration engineers. In many cases, these light-weight structures deviate from linear behaviour, and complex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-14 F. Fontanela , A. Grolet , L. Salles , A. Chabchoub , N. Hoffmann