Confinement of discrete breathers in inhomogeneously profiled nonlinear chains

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3 2, 2003, Pages

  Bena, I ^a   Saxena, A ^a,b   Tsironis, G P ^c   Ibanes M ^a   Sancho, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Physics Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRAPS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHONONS;

BIOMOLECULES; DISCRETE BREATHERS; FERMI PASTA ULAM CHAIN; FRENKEL KONTOROVA MODEL; NONLINEAR CHAINS;

FERMI LEVEL;

EID: 42749109108     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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