LODY26:
LOCALIZATION DYNAMICS IN MATTER AND WAVES
Mini-colloquia in CMD32-OePG75, Graz, Sep 2026
32nd Meeting of the Condensed
Matter Division, European
Physical Society
75th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Physical Society
Sun.20 - Fr. 25 September 2026, Graz Center of Physics, Graz, Austria
oepg-cmd-2026@uni-graz.at https://oepg-cmd-jointmeeting2026.uni-graz.at/en/
Organizers: Juan F.R. Archilla, Manfried Faber, Masayuki Kimura,
Yusuke Doi.
Emails: archilla@us.es, masayuki.kimura@setsunan.ac.jp
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Confirmed participants so far
(10/03/2026), with research interest.
Juan
FR Archilla, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Breathers,
hyperconductivity.
Nathan Russell Bisset, Universität
Innsbruck, Austria. Theory of ultracold quantum matter.
Manfried
Faber, Technische Universität Wien, Austria. Topological solitons,
solitons in particle physics, quantum chromodynamics.
Rudolf Golubich, Technische Universität Wien,
Austria. Quantum fields theory
Masayuki Kimura, Setsunan University, Osaka,
Japan. Breahers, electrical nonlinear circuits.
Samo Kralj, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Liquid crystals.
Luka Mesarec, University of Ljubjana, Slovenia
Hiroki Ono, the University of Osaka, Japan. Heat
transport. Waves in nonlinear lattices.
Antonia Tampakaki, University of Crete, Greece. Quantum computing.
Keywords: Localization,
solitons, topological phenomena, nonlinear
phenomena
Abstract:
Solitons are ubiquitous examples of spatial localization, often in
movement. They include discrete breathers as envelope
solitons. Striking examples in water are tsunamis and bores, but
they appear in many other systems as optical waveguides, Josephson
junction arrays, Bose-Einstein condensates, matter waves, and
biological molecules, to name a few. Solitons appear both in
theory, classical and ab-initio nonlinear dynamics, and experiments.
They often have long lives, which may hinder heat evacuation in tokamak
fusion reactors. Polarons and solectrons consist of a charge bounded to
a local deformation and/or localized vibrational modes. They are often
described using semi-classical models within the tight-binding
approximation. Localization can also be in momentum as q-breathers, or
in time, as rogue waves. Metamaterials allow for the engineering of
especial properties including solitons. With time modulation, time
crystals appear, as proposed by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek in 2012.
Space-time metamaterials bring about new properties of localized
excitations that appear within the frequency or momentum
bandgaps. Electrons have also been described as topological
solitons with Coulomb and Lorenz forces as a consequence, in this way,
expanding the soliton concept to particle physics. This
mini-colloquium intends to review recent advances and unify theories
and approaches.
References:
-Real-time spectral interferometry probes the internal dynamics of
femtosecond soliton molecules, Science 356 (6333) 50-53 (2017)
-Sergej Flach and Andrey V Gorbach, Discrete breathers - Advances in
theory and applications,
Phys. Rep. 467: 1-116 (2008)
-Manfried Faber and Alexander P Kobushkin, Electrodynamic limit in a
model for charged solitons, Phys. Rev. D, 69: 116002 (2004)
-Frank Wilczek , Quantum Time Crystals. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 16:
160401 (2012)
