Nonlinear breathing modes due to a defect in a DNA chain

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1820, 2004, Pages 1461-1477

  Wattis, Jonathan A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breathers; Defect; Lattice model; Localization

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042625719     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1391     Document Type: Article

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