Motion of Kink in Hydrogen-Bonded Chain with Asymmetric Double-Well Potential

We discuss the nonlinear excitations and the motion of kink in hydrogen-bonded chain with asymmetric double-well potential, in presence of an external force and damping using a new two-component soliton model. We obtain the kink soliton solution using the phase-plane method, we study soliton velocity and find the expression of the mobility of the kink soliton.     

Asymptotics for kink propagation in the discrete Sine-Gordon equation

The evolution of a propagating kink in a Sine-Gordon lattice is studied asymptotically using an averaged Lagrangian formulation appropriately coupled to the effect of the radiation. We find that unlike the continuum case the interaction with the Goldstone mode is important to explain the acceleration of the kink as it hops along the lattice. We develop a discrete WKB type solution to study the interaction of the kink and the radiation. In particular using this solution we show how to calculate the effect of the Peyrard and Kruskal resonant radiation in the energy loss of the kink. We obtain a set of modulation equation which explains qualitatively the evolution of the kink with remarkable quantitative agreement.     

The window Josephson junction: a coupled linear nonlinear system

We investigate the interface coupling between the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation and the two-dimensional wave equation in the context of a Josephson window junction using a finite volume numerical method and soliton perturbation theory. The geometry of the domain as well as the electrical coupling parameters are considered. When the linear region is located at each end of the nonlinear domain, we derive an effective one-dimensional model, and using soliton perturbation theory, compute the fixed points that can trap either a kink or antikink at an interface between two sine-Gordon media. This approximate analysis is validated by comparing with the solution of the partial differential equation and describes kink motion in the one-dimensional window junction. Using this, we analyze steady-state kink motion and derive values for the average speed in the one- and two-dimensional systems. Finally, we show how geometry and the coupling parameters can destabilize kink motion.     

广义色散Camassa-Holm模型的奇异孤子

引进一类广义色散Camassa-Holm模型，对其做奇异性分析.通过改进的WTC-Kruskal算法，证明该模型在Painlevé意义下可积，得到了它的一组Painlevé-Bcklund系统和Bcklund变换.应用Maple进行代数运算，得到了丰富的规则(regular)孤子和一类奇异(singular)孤子，扭结(kink)孤子,紧孤子(compacton)和反紧孤子(anti-compacton).特别地，推导出一类在扭结孤子的中间区域包含有一列周期尖点(cuspon)波的奇异结构.在这些规则的孤子系统的基础上，对可积广义系统应用Bcklund变换，得到三类奇异孤子，分别是具有驼峰结构的周期爆破波，具有爆破波结构的扭结孤子和紧孤子. 关键词： 广义Camassa-Holm 模型 周期尖点波 紧孤子 周期爆破波     

Massless and quantized modes of kinks in the phase space of superconducting gaps

We investigated quantized modes of kinks in the phase space of superconducting gaps in a superconductor with multiple gaps. The kink is described by the sine-Gordon model in a two-gap superconductor and by the double sine-Gordon model in a three-gap superconductor. A fractional-flux vortex exists at the edge of the kink, and a fractional-flux vortex will be stable in a three-gap superconductor with time-reversal symmetry breaking. The kink and fractional-flux vortex exhibit massless modes as a sliding motion. We show further that there are one zero-energy mode (massless mode) and quantized excitation modes in kinks, which are characteristic features of multi-gap superconductors. The equation of quantized modes for the double sine-Gordon model is solved numerically. The correction to the ground-state energy is calculated based on the renormalization theory.     

Interfaces and ripple states in ferroelastic crystals—A simple model

A simple atomistic model with two harmonic potentials between layers of atoms describes surface relaxations equivalent to those found as kink solitary waves in ferroelastic crystals. The parameters of the model are expressed in terms of the entropy term in a Landau potential and the Ginzburg gradient energy. We discuss the possibility that metastable ripple states exist in which a modulation is superimposed to an underlying uniform order parameter. Such ripple states can occur at temperatures close to the transition point between a ferroelastic phase and an incommensurate phase. In the ripple state, domain walls consist of kinks with modulations on either side of the kink.     

AlGaN/GaN高电子迁移率晶体管中kink效应的半经验模型

初步分析了AlGaN/GaN 器件上的kink效应. 在直流模型的基础上, 建立了AlGaN/GaN 高电子迁移率晶体管中kink效应的半经验模型, 并加入了kink效应发生的漏源偏压与栅源偏压的关系. 该模型得出较为准确的模拟结果, 可用来判断kink效应的发生和电流的变化量. 最后, 我们采用模型仿真结合实验分析的方法, 对kink效应进行了一定的物理研究, 结果表明碰撞电离对kink效应的发生有一定的促进作用.     

氢键分子系统中外场与阻尼作用下扭结孤子对的特性研究

运用二分量孤子的振子模型,研究了氢键分子系统中在外场与阻尼存在情况下,质子子晶格与重离子子晶格中扭结孤子形成的孤子对的运动特性,讨论了重离子运动对孤子对迁移率的影响和孤子对的核化特性,得到了孤子对迁移率表达式和平均核化率 关键词：     

Nonlinear Excitations in Hydrogen-Bonded Chains with Anharmonic Interatomic Interactions

We discuss the nonlinear excitations and the motion of a kink soliton pair in hydrogen-bonded chains with anharmonic interatomic interactions, based on a two-component soliton model, using a direct perturbation method. The expression for the asymmetric solutions of the kink soliton pair is found because of anharmonicity, and the energy, the momentum and the effective mass of a kink pair for cubic and quartic anharmonicity are calculated, which are in good agreement with the experimental data.     

Interface kink solitons in defocusing saturable nonlinear media

We report on the dynamics of semi-localized nonlinear optical modes supported by an interface separating a uniform defocusing saturable medium and an imprinted semi-infinite photonic lattice. Out-of-phase and in-phase kink solitons composed by dark-soliton-like pedestals and oscillatory tails are found. Two branches of out-of-phase kink solitons exist in shallow lattices. Saturable nonlinearity enhances the pedestal height and renormalized energy flow of kink solitons evidently. While in-phase kink solitons are always unstable, out-of-phase kink solitons will be completely stable provided that lattice depth exceeds a critical value. Furthermore, stable kink solitons in the higher band gaps are also possible. Our results may give a helpful hint for understanding the dynamics of kink solitons with high pedestals in other fields.     

Kink dynamics in the highly discrete sine-Gordon system

We study kink dynamics in a very discrete sine-Gordon system where the kink width is of the order of the lattice spacing. Numerical simulations exhibit new properties of kinks in this case: they lose the memory of their initial velocity and propagate preferentially at well-defined velocities which correspond to quasi-steady states, while a kink moving at other velocities suffers relatively high rates of radiation of small amplitude oscillations. When a small external driving force is applied to the system, the same velocities appear as plateus in the strongly nonlinear mobility of the kink. The energy radiated by the kink is calculated for a simple model that preserves the discrete character of the system, and the preferential velocities for the kink are obtained to good accuracy. Similar results may be expected to be valid for other discrete systems manifesting topological solitons. The numerical simulations reveal also new stable “multiple-kink” excitations which can propagate almost freely in extremely discrete systems where “ordinary” simple kinks are pinned to the lattice by discreteness. The stability of the “multiple-kinks” is discussed.     

Proton Transport in Hydrogen-Bonded Chains in the Presence of an External Field

The motion of a kink pair consisting of kink soliton in different sublattices in hydrogen-bonded chains in the presence of an external force and damping is discussed based on a new soliton model. The scattering cross-section of a kink pair for an electromagnetic wave and the mobility of a kink pair are found.     

Soliton trapping and repulsion due to a co-group in trans-polyacetylene

For a chain of trans-polyacetylene with one CO substitution the equations of motion of the couples electron phonon system are integrated within the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. The calculations for the time-evolution of an end generated kink show that a -C(=O)- unit presents a trap for both a neutral and a negatively charged kink and a repulsive barrier for a positively charged kink. The limitations of the soliton model are discussed.     

Kink solutions of the classical transverse field Ising chain

We investigate stationary and travelling wave solutions of the classical one-dimensional transverse field Ising model. Results are given on the existence, shape and stability of kink solutions and periodic solutions. We review recent analytical results (e.g., the proof of existence of a one-parameter family of stationary kink solutions and the proof of existence of travelling wave kink solutions with nonzero velocity c≠ 0) and extend them by the use of numerical methods. Small oscillations arising in the tails of travelling kink solutions are investigated numerically. In the end, stability analysis puts some light on pinning effects. Received 23 February 2001 and Received in final form 4 October 2001     

Solitary wave solutions of nonlocal sine-Gordon equations

In this paper a nonlocal generalization of the sine-Gordon equation, u(tt)+sin u=( partial differential / partial differential x) integral (- infinity ) (+ infinity )G(x-x('))u(x(') )(x('),t)dx(') is considered. We present a brief review of the applications of such equations and show that involving such a nonlocality can change features of the model. In particular, some solutions of the sine-Gordon model (for example, traveling 2pi-kink solutions) may disappear in the nonlocal model; furthermore, some new classes of solutions such as traveling topological solitons with topological charge greater than 1 may arise. We show that the lack of Lorenz invariancy of the equation under consideration can lead to a phenomenon of discretization of kink velocities. We discussed this phenomenon in detail for the special class of kernels G(xi)= summation operator (j=1) (N)kappa(j)e(-eta(j)mid R:ximid R:), eta(j)>0, j=1,2, em leader,N. We show that, generally speaking, in this case the velocities of kinks (i) are determined unambiguously by a type of kink and value(s) of kernel parameter(s); (ii) are isolated i.e., if c(*) is the velocity of a kink then there are no other kink solutions of the same type with velocity c in (c(*)- varepsilon,c(*)+ varepsilon ) for a certain value of varepsilon. We also used this special class of kernels to construct approximations for analytical and numerical study of the problem in a more general case. Finally, we set forth results of the numerical investigation of the problem with the kernel that is the McDonald function G(xi) approximately K(0)(mid R:ximid R:/lambda) (lambda is a parameter) that have applications in the Josephson junction theory. (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.     

Neutral bound states in kink-like theories

In this paper we present an elementary derivation of the semi-classical spectrum of neutral particles in a field theory with kink excitations. In the non-integrable cases, we show that each vacuum state cannot generically support more than two stable particles, since all other neutral exitations are resonances, which will eventually decay. A phase space estimate of these decay rates is also given. This shows that there may be a window of values of the coupling constant where a particle with higher mass is more stable than the one with lower mass. We also discuss the crossing symmetry properties of the semiclassical form factors and the possibility of extracting the elastic part of the kink S-matrix below their inelastic threshold. We present the analysis of theories with symmetric and asymmetric wells, as well as of those with symmetric or asymmetric kinks. Illustrative examples of such theories are provided, among others, by the tricritical Ising model, the double sine-Gordon model and by a class of potentials recently introduced by Bazeia et al.     

Kink instability of a highly deformable elastic cylinder

When a soft elastic cylinder is bent beyond a critical radius of curvature, a sharp fold in the form of a kink appears catastrophically at its compressed side while the tensile side remains smooth. The critical radius increases linearly with the diameter of the cylinder but remains independent of its material properties such as modulus; the maximum deflection at the location of the kink depends on both the material and geometric properties of the cylinder. The catastrophic dynamics of evolution of the kink depicts propagation of a shear wave from the location of the kink towards the edges signifying that kinking is an elastic response of the material which results in extreme localization of curvature. We have rationalized this phenomenon in the light of the classical Euler's buckling instability in slender elastic rods.     

Kinks in a nonlinear massive sigma model

We describe the kink solitary waves of a massive nonlinear sigma model with an S2 sphere as the target manifold. Our solutions form a moduli space of nonrelativistic solitary waves in the long wavelength limit of ferromagnetic linear spin chains.     

Comment on relativistic ideal soliton-gas approximations

We comment on the validity of using relativistic, ideal, Boltzmann-kink-gas phenomenology involving “bare” kinks for interpretation of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. An improved velocity distribution is obtained for sine-Gordon and ?-four kink gases which incorporates the kink renormalization found to be essential in obtaining the correct total kink density. We argue, however, that even with this improvement, current ideal gas phenomenologies can only be trusted at low temperatures compared to the kink rest energy, where the majority of kinks have low velocity in any case.     

Perturbation theory for radiation linewidth in circular Josephson-junction oscillators

The linewidth of the radiation from the Josephson ring oscillator under the influence of an external field is predicted by a new perturbation analysis which is an imporvement of an earlier kink model. The linewidth is due to background oscillations rather than kink velocity fluctuations.