Moving kinks and nanopterons in the nonlinear Klein-Gordon lattice

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 267-281

  Savin, A V ^a   Zolotaryuk, Y ^b,c   Eilbeck, J C ^b  

^a Inst Prob of Phys and Technol   (Russian Federation)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nanopterons; Nonlinear lattice; Pseudo spectral method; Topological solitons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346057213     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00202-X     Document Type: Article

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