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The analysis aims to investigate effects of spontaneous symmetry breaking in such systems. Stationary one-dimensional modes are constructed in an implicit analytical form. These solutions include symmetric ones, as well as modes with spontaneously broken inter-core and along-the-cores symmetries. Solutions featuring the simultaneous (double) breaking of both symmetries are produced too. In the model with the ideal delta-functions, all species of the asymmetric modes are found to be unstable. However, numerical consideration of a two-dimensional extension of the system, which includes symmetric cores with a nonzero transverse thickness, and the nonlinearity-localization spots of a small finite size, produces stable asymmetric modes of all the types, realizing the separate breaking of each symmetry, and states featuring simultaneous (double) breaking of both symmetries.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym10050156","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,14]],"date-time":"2018-05-14T02:57:20Z","timestamp":1526266640000},"page":"156","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Symmetry Breakings in Dual-Core Systems with Double-Spot Localization of Nonlinearity"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Krzysztof B.","family":"Zegadlo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Lojasiewicza 11, PL-30-348 Krakow, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nguyen Viet","family":"Hung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 100803 Hanoi, Vietnam"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2506-5794","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aleksandr","family":"Ramaniuk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. 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