Phonon transmission and thermal conductance in one-dimensional system with on-site potential disorder

The role of on-site potential disorder on phonon transmission and thermal conductance of one-dimensional system is investigated. We found that the on-site potential disorder can lead to the localization of phonons, and has great effect on the phonon transmission and thermal conductance of the system. As on-site potential disorder W increases, the transmission coefficients decrease, and approach zero at the band edges. Corresponding, the thermal conductance decreases drastically, and the curves for thermal conductance exhibit a series of steps and plateaus. Meanwhile, when the on-site potential disorder W is strong enough, the thermal conductance decreases dramatically with the increase of system size N. We also found that the efficiency of reducing thermal conductance by increasing the on-site potential disorder strength is much better than that by increasing the on-site potential?s amplitude.     

具有在位势的一维双原子链晶格振动的色散关系

在简谐近似下,求解具有在位势的一维双原子链晶格振动运动方程,得到了具有在位势的晶格振动的色散关系.在位势使色散关系声频支在布里渊区中心的振动频率不再为零,并且随在位势的增大而增大.对于原子之间相互作用势不随在位势大小变化的情况下,晶格振动的色散关系的频隙随在位势的增大而变宽.讨论了原子链由只有在位势的不连续极限(AC极限),通过在位势逐渐减弱而原子间相互作用势逐渐增强,最后演变到只有原子间相互作用势的原子链的情况.随着在位势减弱和相互作用势增强,色散关系的频隙由AC极限的孤立轻、重原子简谐振动频率之差逐渐变化到通常的无在位势的色散关系频隙.     

Quantum hyperdiffusion in one-dimensional tight-binding lattices

Transient quantum hyperdiffusion, namely, faster-than-ballistic wave packet spreading for a certain time scale, is found to be a typical feature in tight-binding lattices if a sublattice with on-site potential is embedded in a uniform lattice without on-site potential. The strength of the sublattice on-site potential, which can be periodic, disordered, or quasiperiodic, must be below certain threshold values for quantum hyperdiffusion to occur. This is explained by an energy band mismatch between the sublattice and the rest uniform lattice and by the structure of the underlying eigenstates. Cases with a quasiperiodic sublattice can yield remarkable hyperdiffusion exponents that are beyond three. A phenomenological explanation of hyperdiffusion exponents is also discussed.     

Lattice Model with Traveling Compactons

We introduce a purely anharmonic lattice model with specific double-well on-site potential, which admits traveling compacton-like solitary wave solutions by the inverse method with the help of Mathematica. By properly choosing the shape of the solitary wave solution of the system, we can calculate the parameters of the specific on-site potential. We also found that the localization of the compacton is related to the nonlinear coupling parameter Cnl and the potential parameter V0 of the on-site potential, and the velocity of the propagation of the compacton is determined by the localization parameter q and the potential parameter V0. Numerical calculation results demonstrate that the narrow compacton is unstable while the wide compacton is stable when they move along the lattice chain.     

Lattice Model with Traveling Compactons

We introduce a purely anharmonic lattice model with specific double-well on-site potential, which admits traveling compacton-like solitary wave solutions by the inverse method with the help of Mathematica. By properly choosing the shape of the solitary wave solution of the system, we can calculate the parameters of the specific on-site potential. We also found that the localization of the compacton is related to the nonlinear coupling parameter Cn1 and the potential parameter Vo of the on-site potential, and the velocity of the propagation of the compacton is determined by the localization parameter q and the potential parameter Vo. Numerical calculation results demonstrate that the narrow compacton is unstable while the wide compacton is stable when they move along the lattice chain.     

具有在位势的一维双原子链中杂质引起的对称局域模

对具有在位势且含杂质的一维双原子链的晶格振动方程组进行求解,得到了局域振动的解析解,给出了在位势对局域振动影响的基本特征,并简要讨论了对称局域模的存在形式.     

具有在位势的一维双原子链中杂质引起的局域振动

对具有在位势且含杂质的一维双原子链的晶格振动方程组进行求解,得到了局域振动的解析解, 给出了在位势对局域振动影响的基本特征,并简要讨论了局域模的存在形式.     

不变本征算符方法求解含不同在位势的一维双原子链的色散关系

本文运用全量子化的不变本征算符方法, 求解了含有不同简谐在位势的一维双原子链模型, 得到其色散关系并讨论了不同在位势系数之比和力常数对于色散关系高频支和低频支的影响, 分析发现在位势的存在使得低频支和高频支的频谱都有一定程度的抬高; 在一定的条件下, 布里渊区边界的高频支与低频支存在交点, 意味着在某些在位势下, 高频支与低频支的频隙为零. 关键词： 在位势 一维双原子链 不变本征算符方法 色散关系     

Extreme values of elastic strain and energy in sine-Gordon multi-kink collisions

In our recent study the maximal values of kinetic and potential energy densities that can be achieved in the collisions of N slow kinks in the sine-Gordon model were calculated analytically (for N = 1, 2, and 3) and numerically (for 4 ≤ N ≤ 7). However, for many physical applications it is important to know not only the total potential energy density but also its two components (the on-site potential energy density and the elastic strain energy density) as well as the extreme values of the elastic strain, tensile (positive) and compressive (negative). In the present study we give (i) the two components of the potential energy density and (ii) the extreme values of elastic strain. Our results suggest that in multi-soliton collisions the main contribution to the potential energy density comes from the elastic strain, but not from the on-site potential. It is also found that tensile strain is usually larger than compressive strain in the core of multi-soliton collision.     

含有格点势的一维Fibonacci链热传导性质的研究

用传输矩阵的方法,研究了格点势(on-site势)对一维Fibonacci链的热传导性质(透射系数、Lyapunov指数及热导率κ)的影响.研究结果表明:当固定原子质量比和力作用常数比时,随着格点势的增大,低频区域的透射系数减小,对应的Lyapunov指数增大,透射谱向高频方向移动.同时,格点势越大,同样大小的体系对应的κ越小,当格点势足够大时,κ会趋近零.在热导率κ对振动频率ω²作图中,κ呈现台阶式缓慢上升的趋势,且在高频     

Dynamics of bright discrete staggered solitons in photovoltaic photorefractive media

Theoretical results on spatial optical bright solitons excited in arrays of nonlinear defocusing waveguides, that result from the photovoltaic effect in a photorefractive material, are presented. The existence of four types of stationary discrete bright staggered solitons, on-site, inter-site, twisted inter-site, and twisted on-site solitons, is shown both analytically and numerically, and their stability properties are investigated. The maximum Hamiltonian of staggered solitons with the same total power corresponds to stable modes. It is shown that for low total power the on-site mode is stable while in the high power regime the inter-site mode is stable. These results are confirmed numerically. In addition, steering properties of localized modes are investigated by introducing a transversal translational shift. Because of the translational symmetry between on-site and inter-site localized modes they are considered as two dynamical realizations of the same moving mode, and the formalism of the Peierls-Nabarro effective potential is applied to interpret the exchange between trapping and steering of these modes. This critically depends on the mode’s total power and the introduced phase difference. On the other hand, steering of twisted inter-site and on-site localized modes is not numerically observed. Instead, transversal perturbation leads to a transformation of twisted modes either into a trapped on-site mode of smaller power and radiation, or into two trapped on-site modes.     

Condensation in a Disordered Infinite-Range Hopping Bose–Hubbard Model

We study Bose–Einstein Condensation (BEC) in the Infinite-Range-Hopping Bose–Hubbard model with repulsive on-site particle interaction in the presence of an ergodic random single-site external potential with different distributions. We show that the model is exactly soluble even if the on-site interaction is random. We observe new phenomena: instead of enhancement of BEC for perfect bosons, for constant on-site repulsion and discrete distributions of the single-site potential there is suppression of BEC at certain fractional densities. We show that this suppression appears with increasing disorder. On the other hand, the suppression of BEC at integer densities observed in Bru and Dorlas (J. Stat. Phys. 113:177–195, 2003) in the absence of a random potential, can disappear as the disorder increases. For a continuous distribution we prove that the BEC critical temperature decreases for small on-site repulsion while the BEC is suppressed at integer values of the density for large repulsion. Again, the threshold for this repulsion gets higher, when disorder increases.     

Effect of temporal disorder on wave packet dynamics in one-dimensional kicked lattices

Inspired by the recent experimental progress in noisy kicked rotor systems,we investigate the effect of temporal disorder or quasi-periodicity in one-dimensional kicked lattices with pulsed on-site potential.We found that,unlike the spatial disorder or quasi-periodicity which usually leads to localization,the effect of the temporal one is more complex and depends on the spatial configuration.If the kicked on-site potential is periodic in real space,then the wave packet will stay diffusive in the presence of temporal disorder or quasi-periodicity.On the other hand,if the kicked on-site potential is spatially quasi-periodic,then the temporal disorder or quasi-periodicity may lead to a shift of the transition point of the dynamical localization and destroy the dynamical localization in a certain parameter range.The results we obtained can be readily tested by experiments and may help us better understand the dynamical localization.     

Periodic, Quasiperiodic and Chaotic Discrete Breathers in a Parametrical Driven Two-Dimensional Discrete Klein-Gordon Lattice

We study a two-dimensional lattice of anharmonic oscillators with only quartic nearest-neighbor interactions, in which discrete breathers can be explicitly constructed by an exact separation of their time and space dependence. DBs can stably exist in the two-dimensional Klein-Gordon lattice with hard on-site potential. When a parametric driving term is introduced in the factor multiplying the harmonic part of the on-site potential of the system, we can obtain the stable quasiperiodic discrete breathers and chaotic discrete breathers by changing the amplitude of the driver.     

Phase separation in a lattice model of a superconductor with pair hopping

We have studied the extended Hubbard model with pair hopping in the atomic limit for arbitrary electron density and chemical potential. The Hamiltonian considered consists of (i) the effective on-site interaction U and (ii) the intersite charge exchange interactions I, determining the hopping of electron pairs between nearest-neighbour sites. The model can be treated as a simple effective model of a superconductor with very short coherence length in which electrons are localized and only electron pairs have a possibility of transferring. The phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties of this model have been determined within the variational approach, which treats the on-site interaction term exactly and the intersite interactions within the mean-field approximation. We have also obtained rigorous results for a linear chain (d = 1) in the ground state. Moreover, at T = 0 some results derived within the random phase approximation (and the spin-wave approximation) for d = 2 and 3 lattices and within the low-density expansions for d = 3 lattices are presented. Our investigation of the general case (as a function of the electron concentration n and as a function of the chemical potential μ) shows that, depending on the values of interaction parameters, the system can exhibit not only the homogeneous phases, superconducting (SS) and nonordered (NO), but also the phase separated states (PS: SS-NO). The system considered exhibits interesting multicritical behaviour including tricritical points.     

Perturbative Analysis of Anharmonic Chains of Oscillators Out of Equilibrium

We compute the first-order correction to the correlation functions of the stationary state of a stochastically forced harmonic chain out of equilibrium when a small on-site anharmonic potential is added. This is achieved by deriving a suitable formula for the covariance matrix of the invariant state. We find that the first-order correction of the heat current does not depend on the size of the system. Second, the temperature profile is linear when the harmonic part of the on-site potential is zero. The sign of the gradient of the profile, however, is opposite to the sign of the temperature difference of the two heat baths.     

High-temperature atomic superfluidity in lattice Bose-Fermi mixtures

We consider atomic Bose-Fermi mixtures in optical lattices and study the superfluidity of fermionic atoms due to s-wave pairing induced by boson-fermion interactions. We prove that the induced fermion-fermion coupling is always attractive if the boson-boson on-site interaction is repulsive, and predict the existence of an enhanced BEC-BCS crossover as the strength of the lattice potential is varied. We show that for direct on-site fermion-fermion repulsion, the induced attraction can give rise to superfluidity via s-wave pairing at striking variance with the case of pure systems of fermionic atoms with direct repulsive interactions.     

在位势对于一维双原子链晶格振动长声学波的影响

根据声学模的定义,明确了具有在位势的一维双原子链的晶格振动不存在声学模,讨论了具有在位势的一维双原子链晶格振动的低频支长波模振动图像,得到原胞中两种原子运动的振幅不再一致,低频支长波模不再是原胞质心的运动,且两种原子运动的振幅比随在位势的增大而单调增大.     

Phase of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Double-Well Potential Modulated Periodically in Time

By using of the invariant theory, we have studied phase of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential modulated periodically in time when the on-site interaction energy of a single pair of bosons occupying the same well equals the collision energy between two condensates, the dynamical and geometric phases are presented respectively. The Aharonov-Anandan phase is also obtained in the case of the cyclical evolution. PACS:03.65.Vf; 03.75.Mn     

Quantum transmission across a low-dimensional nanoscale diffuse junction

The transmission across a nano-scale diffuse junction between two metals is studied numerically for 1D wires and 2D ribbons within a tight-binding model. In such a situation, a junction electric potential must appear to equilibrate the electrochemical potential on each side of the junction. We compute the transmission under two very different potential distributions and we find that the typical transmission does not depend on the details of this distribution. The transmission is found to follow a scaling law. The variations of the 1D transmission are explained in a semi-classical way by considering the multiple reflections caused by the barriers due to the on-site energy mismatch between the two metals. Both the 1D and 2D results can also be partly interpreted in the frame of the Anderson theory of localisation.