Discrete breathers and Anderson modes: Two faces of the same phenomenon?

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 406-418

  Archilla, J F R ^a   MacKay, R S ^b   Marin J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anderson localization; Discrete breathers; Intrinsic localized modes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347031486     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00131-1     Document Type: Article

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