energy localization

CHARACTERISTICS OF GAP DISCRETE BREATHERS IN CRYSTALS WITH NaCl STRUCTURE

Molecular dynamics method is used to study the effect of mass ratio of anions and cations on the phonon spectra of the crystal with NaCl structure and on the discrete breathers existence  conditions and properties of gap discrete breathers. We show that discrete breathers can be easily excited for the mass ratio less than 0.2, when the gap in the phonon spectrum is wide enough to support them.

q­BREATHERS: FROM THE FERMI–PASTA–ULAM PARADOX TO ANOMALOUS CONDUCTIVITY

The paper reviews the modern problems of nonlinear physics, where q­breathers theory finds its applications.