Dynamical thermalization of disordered nonlinear lattices

作者:Mulansky Mario*; Ahnert Karsten; Pikovsky Arkady; Shepelyansky Dima L
来源:Physical Review E, 2009, 80(5): 056212.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056212

摘要

We study numerically how the energy spreads over a finite disordered nonlinear one-dimensional lattice, where all linear modes are exponentially localized by disorder. We establish emergence of dynamical thermalization characterized as an ergodic chaotic dynamical state with a Gibbs distribution over the modes. Our results show that the fraction of thermalizing modes is finite and grows with the nonlinearity strength.

  • 出版日期2009-11

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