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We study the Anderson localization in nonlinear systems by taking a nonlinear transmission line realizing the Toda lattice. It is found that the randomness in inductance induces the Anderson localization in the voltage propagation.…

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Diffusion has been widely used to describe a random walk of particles or waves, and it requires only one parameter -- the diffusion constant. For waves, however, diffusion is an approximation that disregards the possibility of interference.…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-23 Alexey G. Yamilov , Raktim Sarma , Brandon Redding , Ben Payne , Heeso Noh , Hui Cao

We establish large sets of Anderson localized states for the quasi-periodic nonlinear wave equation on $\mathbb Z^d$, thus extending nonlinear Anderson localization from the random \cite{BW08} to a deterministic setting.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Yunfeng Shi , W. -M. Wang

As part of condensed-matter physics, the field of Anderson localization concerns the study of conductance of electrons in a random medium. We summarize and explain the results obtained in "A new numerical approach to Anderson…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 Constanze Liaw

We investigate dynamical aspects of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (DNLS) in finite lattices. Starting from a periodic chain with nearest neighbor interactions, we insert randomly links connecting distant pairs of sites…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-01-27 F. Perakis , G. P. Tsironis

We demonstrate that nonlinearity plays a constructive role in supporting the robustness of dynamical localization in a model which is discrete, in one dimension and continuous in the orthogonal one. In the linear regime, time-periodic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-06-27 R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , B. A. Malomed , T. Meier , A. V. Yulin

We investigate disorder induced localization in the presence of nonlinearity and curvature. We numerically analyze the time-resolved three-dimensional expansion of a wave-packet in a bended cigar shaped potential with a focusing Kerr-like…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-25 Claudio Conti

We study coherent dynamics of tight-binding systems interacting with static and oscillating external fields. We consider Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark localization caused by dc fields, and compare these effects to dynamic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Martin Holthaus , Daniel W. Hone

In the absence of nonlinearity all normal modes (NMs) of a chain with disorder are spatially localized (Anderson localization). We study the action of nonlinearity, whose strength is ramped linearly in time. It leads to a spreading of a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodrigo A. Vicencio And Sergej Flach

Anderson localization has been observed in various types of waves, such as matter waves, optical waves and acoustic waves. Here we reveal that the effect of Anderson localization can be also induced in metallic nonlinear nanoparticle arrays…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-29 Zhijie Mai , Fang Lin , Wei Pang , Haitao Xu , Suiyan Tan , Shenhe Fu , Yongyao Li

Topic of the thesis is a theoretical description of the ultracold atomic gases in one- and two-dimensional optical lattices in the presence of the disorder leading to the Anderson localization. The disorder is created by interaction of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-19 Jan Major

The interplay between Anderson localization and total internal reflection of electromagnetic waves incident near the critical angle on randomly-stratified dielectric media is investigated theoretically. Using an exact analytical formula for…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Kihong Kim

The nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder is considered. The dynamics of an initially localized wave packet is studied. A subdiffusive spreading of the wave packet is explained in the framework of a continuous time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander Iomin

We investigate transient nonlinear localization, namely the self-excitation of energy bursts in an atomic lattice at finite temperature. As a basic model we consider the diatomic Lennard-Jones chain. Numerical simulations suggest that the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-06-15 Stefano Lepri , Francesco Piazza

We consider asymmetric (nonreciprocal) wave transmission through a layered nonlinear, non mirror-symmetric system described by the one-dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with spatially varying coefficients embedded in an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Lepri , Giulio Casati

We study quantum diffusion of wavepackets in one-dimensional random binary subject to an applied electric field. We consider three different cases: Periodic, random, and random dimer (paired) lattices. We analyze the spatial extent of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Dominguez-Adame , A Sanchez , E Diez

We study localized solutions for the nonlinear graph wave equation on finite arbitrary networks. Assuming a large amplitude localized initial condition on one node of the graph, we approximate its evolution by the Duffing equation. The rest…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-22 J. G. Caputo , I. Khames , A. Knippel , A. B. Aceves

A self-consistent theory of the frequency dependent diffusion coefficient for the Anderson localization problem is presented within the tight-binding model of non-interacting electrons on a lattice with randomly distributed on-site energy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-01-23 Johann Kroha

To characterize a destruction of Anderson localization by nonlinearity, we study the spreading behavior of initially localized states in disordered, strongly nonlinear lattices. Due to chaotic nonlinear interaction of localized linear or…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-12 Mario Mulansky , Karsten Ahnert , Arkady Pikovsky

The dynamics of an initially localized Anderson mode is studied in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder. It is shown that the dynamics can be described in the framework of the Liouville operator.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Iomin