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This lecture deals with the thermal properties of lattice solitons. Lattice solitons1 arise in a wide variety of physical contexts, where there is a balancing of nonlinearity and dispersion. Localized nonlinear excitations may possibly be relevant to some biophysical properties, e.g. proton transport2 and DNA “premelton”3 dynamics. It is therefore important to have a full understanding of a mathematically tractable model, which includes the essential features of interatomic forces: a short range repulsion and a weak restoring force.
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Theodorakopoulos, N., Bacalis, N.C. (1992). Thermally Excited Lattice Solitons. In: Bountis, T. (eds) Proton Transfer in Hydrogen-Bonded Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 291. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3444-0_10
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