Kinks in dipole chains

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/19/6/008MaRDI QIDQ5488813zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. M. Speight, Yaroslav Zolotaryuk

Publication date 25 September 2006

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0509047

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

Abstract: 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 novel type of static kink solution which may occupy any position relative to the spatial lattice and experiences no Peierls-Nabarro barrier. Consequently the dynamics of a single kink is highly continuum like, despite the strongly discrete nature of the model. Static multikinks and kink-antikink pairs are constructed, and it is shown that all such static solutions are unstable. Exact propagating kinks are sought numerically using the pseudo-spectral method, but it is found that none exist, except, perhaps, at very low speed.

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