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Kink-antikink asymmetry and impurity interactions in topological mechanical chains.

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Published in 2017 at "Physical Review E"

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.022202

Abstract: We study the dynamical response of a diatomic periodic chain of rotors coupled by springs, whose unit cell breaks spatial inversion symmetry. In the continuum description, we derive a nonlinear field theory which admits topological… read more here.

Keywords: antikink asymmetry; asymmetry impurity; interactions topological; kink antikink ... See more keywords