Discrete breathers: classical and quantum
Discrete breathers are time-periodic spatially localised motions in networks of oscillators. Their occurrence in three principal contexts is reviewed: (i) autonomous Hamiltonian or reversible systems, (ii) autonomous forced damped systems, and (iii) time-periodically forced systems. The main proposed area of application, however, is to molecular crystals, where quantum effects must be taken into account. Thus an idea for a theory of quantum discrete breathers is also presented, though some details remain to be worked out.
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2000
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Authors: | MacKay, R.S. |
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 288.2000, 1, p. 174-198
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Localisation | Nonlinear dynamics | Spectral projection | Discrete breather |
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