Quantum Signatures of Breather-Breather Interactions

Jérôme Dorignac, J. C. Eilbeck, Mario Salerno, Alwyn Scott

Physical Review Letters · 2004 · 56 citations · 17 references

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The spectrum of the quantum discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation, or boson Hubbard Hamiltonian, on a periodic 1D lattice shows some interesting detailed band structure, which may be interpreted as the quantum signature of a two-breather interaction in the classical case. This fine structure is studied using degenerate perturbation theory. We also present a modification to this model, which increases the mobility of bound states.

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