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Merab Malishava1, Ramaz Khomeriki1
1Physics Department, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 3 Chavchavadze, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia.
Abstract:
A conceptual mechanism of amplification of phonons by phonons on the basis of a nonlinear band-gap transmission (supratransmission) phenomenon is presented. As an example, a system of weakly coupled chains of anharmonic oscillators is considered. One (source) chain is driven harmonically by a boundary with a frequency located in the upper band close to the band edge of the ladder system. Amplification happens when a second (gate) chain is driven by a small signal in the counterphase and with the same frequency as the first chain. If the total driving of both chains overcomes the band-gap transmission threshold, the large amplitude band-gap soliton emerges and the amplification scenario is realized. The mechanism is interpreted as the nonlinear superposition of evanescent and propagating nonlinear modes manifesting in a single or double soliton generation working in band-gap or bandpass regimes, respectively. The results could be straightforwardly generalized for all-optical or all-magnonic contexts and have all the promise of logic gate operations.
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