Possible soliton motion in ac-driven damped nonlinear lattices

Cai, David; Sánchez, Angel; Bishop, Alan R.; Falo, Fernando; Floría, Luis M.

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Possible soliton motion in ac-driven damped nonlinear lattices

Author(s): Cai, David; Sánchez, Angel; Bishop, Alan R.; Falo, Fernando; Floría, Luis M.

Publisher: American Physical Society

Issued date: 1994-10-01

Citation: Physical Review B, vol. 50, n. 13, 1 oct. 1994. Pp. 9652-9656

ISSN: 1098-0121 (print version)
1550-235X (online version)

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.9652

Sponsor: Support from a MEC/Fulbright grant, from DGICyT (Spain) under Project No. PB92-0248, and from the European Union Network ERBCHRXCT930413. Work at Zaragoza was supported by DGICyT (Spain) under Project No. PB92-0361, and by the European Union (NETWORK on Nonlinear Approaches to Coherent and Fluctuating Processes in Condensed Matter and Optical Physics). Work at Los Alamos was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.50.9652

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/15112

Abstract:

We study the possibility of kink motion induced by pure ac driving in damped nonlinear lattices, focusing on the Frenkel-Kontorova and Toda models. Numerical simulations of the Frenkel-Kontorova model show no evidence for steady kink motion. We point out tha [+]

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