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Seltrapping in flat band lattices with nonlinear disorder.

Authors :
Rivas, Danilo
Molina, Mario I.
Source :
Scientific Reports. 3/23/2020, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p1-9. 9p.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20452322
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Scientific Reports
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
142384049
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62079-8