"Critical" phonons of the supercritical Frenkel-Kontorova model: Renormalization bifurcation diagrams

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 239-252

  Ketoja, Jukka A ^a   Satija, Indubala I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantorus; Frenkel Kontorova model; Phonon; Quasiperiodicity; Renormalization; Standard map

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243927660     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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