Skip to content

Stability of quantum breathers

L. S. Schulman, D. Tolkunov, E. Mihokova

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0601209

Abstract

Using two methods we show that a quantized discrete breather in a 1-D lattice is stable. One method uses path integrals and compares correlations for a (linear) local mode with those of the quantum breather. The other takes a local mode as the zeroth order system relative to which numerical, cutoff-insensitive diagonalization of the Hamiltonian is performed.

Create a lesson