CLASS OF LOCALIZED STRUCTURES IN NONLINEAR LATTICES

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作者
KIVSHAR, YS
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[1] Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 46卷 / 13期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.46.8652
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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The existence of a new claw of localized structures in nonlinear lattices is proved analytically and it is pointed out that such excitations have been recently observed experimentally [B. Denardo et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1730 (1992)] in the form of the so-called "noncutoff kinks." These localized structures appear to be due to nonlinearity-induced breaking of symmetry between two equivalent eigenmodes of the lattice, and they probably exist in a large variety of nonlinear discrete systems.
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