Discrete breathers - Advances in theory and applications

Physics Reports

Volumn 467, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 1-116

  Flach, Sergej ^a   Gorbach, Andrey V ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anharmonic lattice dynamics; Discrete breathers; Localization

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449084022     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2008.05.002     Document Type: Review

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