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A surface of a strong topological insulator (STI) is characterized by an odd number of linearly dispersing gapless electronic surface states. It is well known that such a surface cannot be described by an effective two-dimensional lattice…
A new type of instability resulting in oscillatory propagating kinks is presented. It is observed in periodically forced oscillatory media at 1:1 resonance, where phase kinks have close similarities to pulses in excitable media. Considering…
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