The Sine-Gordon Model and Its Applications: From Pendula and Josephson Junctions to Gravity and High-Energy Physics

By Jesús Cuevas-Maraver

Book Overview

The sine-Gordon Model: General Background, Physical Motivations, Inverse Scattering, and Solitons.- Sine-Gordon Equation: From Discrete to Continuum.- Soliton Collisions.- The Traveling Kink Problem: Radiation Phenomena, Resonances, Pinning and How to Avoid It.- Experimental Results for the sine-Gordon Equation in Arrays of Coupled Torsion Pendula.- Soliton Ratchets in sine-Gordon-like Equations.- The sine-Gordon Equation in Josephson-Junction Arrays.- Some Selected Thoughts Old and New on Soliton - Black Hole Connections in 2d Dilaton Gravity.- Dressing with Control: Using Integrability to Generate Desired Solutions to Einstein's Equations.- A Planar Skyrme-like Model.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319379895
• ISBN13: 9783319379890
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"