Disorder induced control of discrete soliton ratchets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Martínez, Pedro J ^a   Chacón, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; SCALING LAWS;

COORDINATE FORMALISM; FRENKEL-KONTOROVA CHAINS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 42149193630     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.144101     Document Type: Article

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