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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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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-70900642020-03-27 Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder Rivas, Danilo Molina, Mario I. Sci Rep Article 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7090064/ /pubmed/32251317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62079-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Rivas, Danilo Molina, Mario I. Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder |
title | Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder |
title_full | Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder |
title_fullStr | Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder |
title_full_unstemmed | Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder |
title_short | Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder |
title_sort | seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder |
topic | Article |
url | 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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