Soliton pinning by long-range order in aperiodic systems

Details Soliton pinning by long-range order in aperiodic systems Soliton pinning by long-range order in aperiodic systems

1995-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9503123v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, REVTeX 3.0 + epsf, 3 figures in accompanying PostScript file (Submitted to Phys Rev E Rapid Comm)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.52.R2183

We investigate propagation of a kink soliton along inhomogeneous chains with two different constituents, arranged either periodically, aperiodically, or randomly. For the discrete sine-Gordon equation and the Fibonacci and Thue-Morse chains taken as examples, we have found that the phenomenology of aperiodic systems is very peculiar: On the one hand, they exhibit soliton pinning as in the random chain, although the depinning forces are clearly smaller. In addition, solitons are seen to propagate differently in the aperiodic chains than on periodic chains with large unit cells, given by approximations to the full aperiodic sequence. We show that most of these phenomena can be understood by means of simple collective coordinate arguments, with the exception of long range order effects. In the conclusion we comment on the interesting implications that our work could bring about in the field of solitons in molecular (e.g., DNA) chains.

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