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Resonant emission of solitons from impurity-induced localized waves in nonlinear lattices
Gaokun Yu1, Xinlong Wang, Zhiyong Tao
1Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics (MOE) and Institute of Acoustics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
Abstract:
We propose a mechanism for soliton creation from resonantly excited localized waves via supratransmission in band gaps of nonlinear lattices. A nonlinear localized wave, which is formed by and vibrates around an impurity with an intrinsic frequency, is found to undergo a local resonance when subject to an external forcing. Under the resonance, an instability develops that leads to the efficient emission of solitons at a much lower rate than that in uniform lattices with no impurity.
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