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@article{Schindler:2025:10.1103/PhysRevB.111.064312,
author = {Schindler, F and Bulchandani, VB and Benalcazar, WA},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.111.064312},
journal = {Physical Review B},
title = {Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.064312},
volume = {111},
year = {2025}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Nonlinear lattice models can support "discrete breather"excitations that stay localized in space for all time. By contrast, the localized Wannier states of linear lattice models are dynamically unstable. Nevertheless, symmetric and exponentially localized Wannier states are a central tool in the classification of band structures with crystalline symmetries. Moreover, the quantized transport observed in nonlinear Thouless pumps relies on the fact that - at least in a specific model - discrete breathers recover Wannier states in the limit of vanishing nonlinearity. Motivated by these observations, we investigate the correspondence between nonlinear breathers and exponentially localized Wannier states for a family of discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations with crystalline symmetries. We develop a formalism to analytically predict the breathers' spectrum, center of mass and symmetry data, and apply this to nonlinear generalizations of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain and the breathing kagome lattice.
AU - Schindler,F
AU - Bulchandani,VB
AU - Benalcazar,WA
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.064312
PY - 2025///
SN - 2469-9950
TI - Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries
T2 - Physical Review B
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.064312
VL - 111
ER -
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