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A realistic one-dimensional system has not only longitudinal phonons, but also possible transverse modes, which derive their restoring force from longitudinal interaction. We show that transverse motion results in a quartic displacement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 V. K. Jindal

We derive a closed-form expression for the phase shift experienced by 1+1 dimensional kinks colliding at ultra-relativistic velocities (gamma v >> 1), valid for arbitrary periodic potentials. Our closed-form expression is the leading order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-04 Mustafa A. Amin , Eugene A. Lim , I-Sheng Yang

In spite of the large number of papers appeared in the past which are devoted to the lattice Boltzmann (LB) methods, basic aspects of the theory still remain unchallenged. An unsolved theoretical issue is related to the construction of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico Fonda , Massimo Tessarotto , Marco Ellero

It is shown that the topological discrete sine-Gordon system introduced by Speight and Ward models the dynamics of an infinite uniform chain of electric dipoles constrained to rotate in a plane containing the chain. Such a chain admits a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-11-12 J. M. Speight , Y. Zolotaryuk

To show that steadily propagating nonlinear waves in active matter can be driven internally, we develop a prototypical model of a topological kink moving with a constant supersonic speed. We use a model of a bi-stable mass-spring (FPU)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Nikolai Gorbushin , Lev Truskinovsky

Two approaches are used for description of linear transverse (kink) modes excited in a vertical thin magnetic flux tube. First one is based on the elastic thread model (Spruit, 1981). The second one follows from the the Taylor and Laurent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-09 Yu. T. Tsap , A. V. Stepanov , Yu. G. Kopylova

We introduce a new class of piece-wise quadratic potentials for nonlinear wave equations with a kink solutions. The potentials allow an exact description of the spectral properties for the linearized equation at the kink. This description…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-27 Alexander Komech , Elena Kopylova , Sergey Kopylov

The Ensemble Kalman Filter method can be used as an iterative numerical scheme for parameter identification or nonlinear filtering problems. We study the limit of infinitely large ensemble size and derive the corresponding mean-field limit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Michael Herty , Giuseppe Visconti

The aim of this paper is to introduce the Inverse Scattering Method for later studies of some problems in nonlinear dynamics, and describe the kink solution of the Sine Gordon Equation using the Inverse Scattering Method as a methodological…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-03-23 Matej Hudak , Jana Tothova , Ondrej Hudak

Nonlinear cubic Euler-Lagrange equations of motion in the traveling variable are usually derived from Ginzburg-Landau free energy functionals frequently encountered in several fields of physics. Many authors considered in the past damped…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 H. C. Rosu , O. Cornejo-Perez , P. Ojeda-May

The long-wavelength behavior of vibrational modes plays a central role in carrier transport, phonon-assisted optical properties, superconductivity, and thermomechanical and thermoelectric properties of materials. Here, we present general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Changpeng Lin , Samuel Poncé , Nicola Marzari

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

We investigate the ratchet dynamics of nonlinear Klein-Gordon kinks in a periodic, asymmetric lattice of point-like inhomogeneities. We explain the underlying rectification mechanism within a collective coordinate framework, which shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Luis Morales-Molina , Franz G. Mertens , Angel Sanchez

We obtain exact travelling wave solutions for three families of stochastic one-dimensional nonequilibrium lattice models with open boundaries. These solutions describe the diffusive motion and microscopic structure of (i) of shocks in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Krebs , F. H. Jafarpour , G. M. Schütz

Traveling modulating pulse solutions consist of a small amplitude pulse-like envelope moving with a constant speed and modulating a harmonic carrier wave. Such solutions can be approximated by solitons of an effective nonlinear Schrodinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Tomas Dohnal , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

This paper investigates the existence of traveling--wave--type patterns in the Keller--Segel model with logarithmic sensitivity. We consider both the linear diffusion case and the nonlinear, flux-saturated diffusion of relativistic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Juan Campos , Claudia García , Carlos Pulido , Juan Soler

The hopping motion of lattice gases through potentials without mirror-reflection symmetry is investigated under various bias conditions. The model of 2 particles on a ring with 4 sites is solved explicitly; the resulting current in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. W. Kehr , Z. Koza

We study traveling wave solutions to bistable differential equations on infinite $k$-ary trees. These graphs generalize the notion of classical square infinite lattices and our results complement those for bistable lattice equations on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Mia Jukić , Petr Stehlík , Vladimír Švígler

In this paper, we employ a combination of analytical and numerical techniques to investigate the dynamics of lattice envelope vector soliton solutions propagating within a one-dimensional chain of flexible mechanical metamaterial. To model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-06-17 Antoine Demiquel , Vassos Achilleos , Georgios Theocharis , Vincent Tournat

For a large number of real nonlinear equations, either continuous or discrete, integrable or nonintegrable, uncoupled or coupled, we show that whenever a real nonlinear equation admits kink solutions in terms of $\tanh \beta x$, where…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-27 Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena