Discrete soliton ratchets driven by biharmonic fields

Details Discrete soliton ratchets driven by biharmonic fields Discrete soliton ratchets driven by biharmonic fields

2006-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0601044v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

13 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.73.066621

Directed motion of topological solitons (kinks or antikinks) in the damped and AC-driven discrete sine-Gordon system is investigated. We show that if the driving field breaks certain time-space symmetries, the soliton can perform unidirectional motion. The phenomenon resembles the well known effects of ratchet transport and nonlinear harmonic mixing. Direction of the motion and its velocity depends on the shape of the AC drive. Necessary conditions for the occurrence of the effect are formulated. In comparison with the previously studied continuum case, the discrete case shows a number of new features: non-zero depinning threshold for the driving amplitude, locking to the rational fractions of the driving frequency, and diffusive ratchet motion in the case of weak intersite coupling.

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