The nonlinear magnetoinductive dimer

Abstract

We examine a nonlinear magnetoinductive dimer and compute its linear and nonlinear symmetric, antisymmetric and asymmetric modes in closed-form, in the rotating-wave approximation. A linear stability analysis of these modes reveals that the asymmetric mode is always stable, for any allowed value of the coupling parameter and for both, hard and soft nonlinearity. A numerical computation of the dimer dynamics reveals a magnetic energy selftrapping whose threshold increases for increasing dimer coupling.