Nonlinear Excitations in Hydrogen-Bonded Chains with Anharmonic Interatomic Interactions

We discuss the nonlinear excitations and the motion of a kink soliton pair in hydrogen-bonded chains with anharmonic interatomic interactions, based on a two-component soliton model, using a direct perturbation method. The expression for the asymmetric solutions of the kink soliton pair is found because of anharmonicity, and the energy, the momentum and the effective mass of a kink pair for cubic and quartic anharmonicity are calculated, which are in good agreement with the experimental data.