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Zhi-Yuan Sun1,2, Xin Yu1
1Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
Abstract:
We systematically simulate and analyze the motion of discrete breatherlike excitations (DBEs) in the nonlinear Schrödinger lattice with random potentials. A universal transient diffusion of the DBEs is observed for short timescales (t≲10^{3}). For longer timescales (t up to 10^{5}), the DBEs become localized. Such localization, depending on the DBE powers, has two different regimes: Regime I is the Anderson-like localization induced by the disorder, while Regime II is an enhanced localization attributed to both the disorder and discreteness. Our study is expected to shed light on understanding the interplay between disorder and strong nonlinearity, from the diffusive transport and localization properties of nonlinear localized excitations in random media.
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