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Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder

We study the transport properties of an initially localized excitation in several flat band lattices, in the presence of nonlinear (Kerr) disorder. In the weak nonlinearity regime, the dynamics is controlled by the degeneracy of the bands leading to a linear form of selftrapping. In the strong nonli...

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Autores principales: Rivas, Danilo, Molina, Mario I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7090064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32251317
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62079-8
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Sumario:We study the transport properties of an initially localized excitation in several flat band lattices, in the presence of nonlinear (Kerr) disorder. In the weak nonlinearity regime, the dynamics is controlled by the degeneracy of the bands leading to a linear form of selftrapping. In the strong nonlinearity regime, the dynamics of the excitations depends strongly on the local environment around the initial excitation site that leads to a highly fluctuating selfrapping profile. For a binary nonlinear disorder, it is shown that the spreading of the flat band fundamental mode, is completely inhibited for a finite fraction of all cases. This fraction corresponds to the fraction of times the same value of (random) nonlinearity is assigned to all sites of the fundamental mode.