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We study the spreading of single-site excitations in one-dimensional disordered Klein-Gordon chains with tunable nonlinearity $|u_{l}|^{\sigma} u_{l}$ for different values of $\sigma$. We perform extensive numerical simulations where wave…

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Nonreciprocal wave propagation allows for directional energy transport. In this work, we systematically investigate wave dynamics in an elastic lattice that combines nonreciprocal stiffness with viscous damping. After establishing how…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Harshit Kumar Sandhu , Saurav Dutta , Rajesh Chaunsali

We develop a numerical method for the time evolution of Gaussian wave packets on flat-band lattices in the presence of correlated disorder. To achieve this, we introduce a method to generate random on-site energies with prescribed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-23 Qi Li , Junfeng Liu , Ke Liu , Zi-Xiang Hu , Zhou Li

Like a free particle, the initial growth of a broad (relative to lattice spacing) wavepacket placed on an ordered lattice is slow (zero initial slope) and becomes linear in $t$ at long time. On a disordered lattice, the growth is inhibited…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Bingyu Cui , Maxim Sukharev , Abraham Nitzan

Nonlinear elastic metamaterials are known to support a variety of dynamic phenomena that enhance our capacity to manipulate elastic waves. Since these properties stem from complex, subwavelength geometry, full-scale dynamic simulations are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Samuel P. Wallen , Michael R. Haberman , Washington DeLima

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices offer a unique platform for investigating disorder-driven phenomena. While static disordered site potentials have been explored in a number of optical lattice experiments, a more general control over…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-28 Fangzhao Alex An , Eric J. Meier , Bryce Gadway

Strong disorder often has drastic consequences for quantum dynamics. This is best illustrated by the phenomenon of Anderson localization in non-interacting systems, where destructive quantum wave interference leads to the complete absence…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-15 Ben T. McDonough , Marius Lemm , Andrew Lucas

We numerically investigate the characteristics of chaos evolution during wave packet spreading in two typical one-dimensional nonlinear disordered lattices: the Klein-Gordon system and the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation model.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-05 B. Senyange , B. Many Manda , Ch. Skokos

We investigate diffusion of excitation in one- and two-dimensional lattices with random on-site energies and deterministic long-range couplings (hopping) inversely proportional to the distance. Three regimes of diffusion are observed in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-18 Karol Kawa , Paweł Machnikowski

We study spreading wave packets in a disordered nonlinear ladder with broken time-reversal symmetry induced by synthetic gauge fields. The model describes the dynamics of interacting bosons in a disordered and driven optical ladder within a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-17 Xiaoquan Yu , Sergej Flach

We study the effect of disorder on the particle density evolution in a classical Hamiltonian driven lattice setup. If the disorder is localized within a finite sub-domain of the lattice, the emergence of strong tails in the density…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Thomas Wulf , Alexander Okupnik , Peter Schmelcher

Static or frozen disorder, characterised by spatial heterogeneities, influences diverse complex systems, encompassing many-body systems, equilibrium and nonequilibrium states of matter, intricate network topologies, biological systems, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-24 M. Ahumada , L. Trujillo , J. F. Marín

Stochastic networks based on random point sets as nodes have attracted considerable interest in many applications, particularly in communication networks, including wireless sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks and so on. The study of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Subhroshekhar Ghosh , Kumarjit Saha

We investigate the propagation and scattering of highly nonlinear waves in disordered granular chains composed of diatomic (two-mass) units of spheres that interact via Hertzian contact. Using ideas from statistical mechanics, we consider…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Laurent Ponson , Nicholas Boechler , Yi Ming Lai , Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , Chiara Daraio

The propagation of a wave-packet in a nonlinear disordered medium exhibits interesting dynamics. Here, we present an analysis based on the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (Gross-Pitaevskii equation). This problem is directly connected to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-07 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

We investigate the quantum dynamics in a disordered electronic lattice with Fibonacci sequence of site energy and off-diagonal electron-phonon coupling within a sub-Ohmic bath by the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-26 Yao Yao

We study transport of interacting particles in weakly disordered media. Our one-dimensional system includes (i) disorder: the hopping rate governing the movement of a particle between two neighboring lattice sites is inhomogeneous, and (ii)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-13 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We study the spreading of initially localized states in a nonlinear disordered lattice described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with random on-site potentials - a nonlinear generalization of the Anderson model of localization. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-05-11 M. Mulansky , A. Pikovsky

We experimentally and computationally analyze impact-shock-induced stress wave propagation in packings of disordered flexible fibers. We find that dispersive wave propagation, associated with large stress attenuation, occurs much more…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-04 Peng Wang , Thomas Pähtz , Kun Luo , Yu Guo

Localization of waves by disorder is a fundamental physical problem encompassing a diverse spectrum of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies in the context of metal-insulator transition, quantum Hall effect, light propagation in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-06 Sergej Flach