Nonlinear Systems, Vol. 2

Juan F. R. Archilla: Prof. Juan F.R. Archilla obtained his PhD in Physics in 1992 in the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics of the University of Sevilla, Spain. Presently he is professor in the Department of Applied Physics I of the University of Sevilla, Spain. His lectures in Mechanics and Electromagnetism take place at the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering in the degrees of Health Engineering and Computer Engineering. His research has been in different aspects of Nonlinear Science, some more theoretical as symmetry and bifurcation theory with application to reaction diffusion systems and some more applied as localized nonlinear waves, reaction rate theory, defects in semiconductors and breathers and kinks in crystals and biological systems as DNA and proteins; or neutron spectroscopy of nonlinear vibrations. Lately he has been involved in experiments to detect nonlinear excitations. He is the head of the Research Group of Nonlinear Physics of the University of Sevilla and member of the European Physical Association. He is a frequent referee in international journals, including Springer journals. Prof. Archilla has been guest researcher in several universities as Freie Univerität in Berlin; Cambridge and Heriot-Watt Universities in the UK; Denmark Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark; LADIR (CNRS) in Paris, France; Tartu University in Estonia; and Osaka University in Japan. He participated in experimental work in the ISIS spallation neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. He has taken part in the organization of several international conferences, the most recent ones in Altea (Spain, 2013, as chairman); Ufa (Russia, 2015) and Sevilla (Spain, 2016) and the next one to be held in Kyoto (Japan, 2018). Prof. Archilla has written about 60 scientific publications in international journals and books. He has been the main editor of a recent volume in Springer Series in Materials Science: Quodons in Mica, Nonlinear Localized Travelling Excitations in Crystals (2015). Some relevant articles in journals are: Nonlinear charge transport mechanism in periodic and disordered DNA, Physica D (2003), where DNA was proposed as a biological wire; Demonstration of the stability or instability of multibreathers at low coupling, Physica D (2003), with a new theoretical approach to multibreather stability; Discrete breathers for understanding reconstructive mineral processes at low temperature, Physica D (2006) which opened the field of the influence of breathers in reaction kinetics; Long range annealing of defects in germanium by low energy plasma ions, Physica D (2015) with experimental work on the annealing effect of nonlinear excitations; On the charge of quodons, Letters on Materials (2016) on the different types and charge of nonlinear excitations triggered by 40K decay in layered silicates. In preparations is an article describing experimental evidence of charge transport by nonlinear excitations. Faustino Palmero : Prof. Faustino Palmero obtained his PhD in Physics in 1997 in the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics of the University of Sevilla, Spain. Presently he is the head of the Department of Applied Physics I of the University of Sevilla Spain. His lectures in Mechanics and Electromagnetism take place at the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering in the degrees of Health Engineering and Computer Engineering. His research has been in different aspects of Nonlinear Science, some more theoretical as symmetry and bifurcation theory with application to reaction diffusion systems or control of chaos in nonlinear oscillators and some more applied as localized nonlinear waves. He is an active member of the Group of Nonlinear Physics of the University of Sevilla. He is a frequent referee for international journals. Prof. Palmero has been guest researcher in several universities as Heri

Part 1 - Biology.- Protein Folding: from Anfinsen to Levinthal.- Patterning dynamics in the fly ocellar complex.- On the role of oscillations and phases in neural communication.- Part 2 - Optics and Bose-Einstein Condensates.- Nonlinear Raman scattering techniques.- Vortex solitons in two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled bosonic condensates: the general model.- Electromagnetic solitary waves collisions on graphene superlattices.- Aspects of cosmological Bose-Einstein condensates and physical analogues.- Stable nonlinear vortices in self-focusing Kerr media with nonlinear absorption.- Spatial solitons in nonlinear photonic crystal fibers.- Part 3 - Crystals, Metamaterials and Other Condensed Matter.- Kinks in lattices.- Discrete breathers in crystals: energy localization and transport.- Spatiotemporal intermittency in a surface reaction model.- Transmission of quasiparticle excitations through nonlinear meta-interface between two media.- Nonlinear localized modes in electric lattices.-Transport properties of quodons.- Kinks: theory and experiments.- Peculiarity of propagating self-sustained annealing of radiation-induced interstitial loops.- Embedded solitons and their application to the Josephson effect.