Discrete breathers in Josephson ladders

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 98-138

  Trias E ^a   Mazo, J J ^b   Brinkman, A ^a,c   Orlando, T P ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrete breathers; Intrinsic localized modes; Josephson ladder; Josephson junction arrays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035427070     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00255-X     Document Type: Article

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