Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

   PDF

2. Solitons on Lattices, Localized Modes, and Biophysical Applications

   1. Quantum Lattices

      • J. C. Eilbeck, A. C. Scott

      Pages 1-14

   2. Recent Developments in the Quantum Nonlinear Dimer: Hopf Bifurcations, Time Evolution, and Thermal Stability

      • V. M. Kenkre

      Pages 15-18

   3. Quantum Correlations of Toda Lattice

      • A. Cuccoli, M. Spicci, V. Tognetti, R. Vaia

      Pages 19-28

   4. Energy Localization in Nonlinear Lattices

      • Michel Peyrard, Thierry Dauxois, Charles R. Willis

      Pages 29-38

   5. Anharmonic Localized Modes in Physical and Biological Systems

      • Shozo Takeno

      Pages 39-50

   6. Soliton Scattering by an Impurity on a Nonlinear Lattice

      • Shigeo Homma

      Pages 51-57

   7. Localized Excitations in Discrete Hamiltonian Systems

      • Sergej Flach, Charles R. Willis

      Pages 59-62

   8. Properties of Localized Excitations in 1D Discrete Systems

      • Sergej Flach, Charles R. Willis

      Pages 63-66

   9. Bound States in the Gaps of Periodic Lattices

      • Jean Coste, Jean Peyraud

      Pages 67-71

   10. Statistical Properties of Lattice Solitons

       • N. Theodorakopoulos

       Pages 73-83

   11. Transport Properties in a Two-Coupled Zig-Zag Atomic Chain Model Including Dipole-Dipole Interactions

       • I. Chochliouros, J. Pouget

       Pages 85-89

   12. Bragge Solitons in 1-D Diatomic Chain with Nonlinear Interatomic Interaction and Nonlinear External Field

       • Alexandr S. Kovalev, Konstantin V. Kladko, Oleg V. Usatenko

       Pages 91-94

   13. Chains of Hydrogen-Bonded Molecules: Structural Data and Localized Modes

       • Mariette Barthes, Susanna W. Johnson, Juergen Eckert, Richard K. McMullan, Michel Muller

       Pages 95-100

   14. SCPA Study of Peierls Barrier for Ionic Defects in a Hydrogen-Bonded Chain

       • Oleg Yanovitskii, Georgia Vlastou-Tsinganos, Nikos Flytzanis

       Pages 101-104

   15. Narrow Kinks in Nonlinear Lattices: Application to the Proton Transport in Hydrogen-Bonded Systems

       • A. V. Zolotaryuk, K. H. Spatschek, O. Kluth

       Pages 105-114

   16. Bjerrum Defects as Quantum Nonlinear Excitations of Hydrogen-Bonded Systems

       • Yuri Gaididei, Nikos Flytzanis, Oleg Yanovitskii

       Pages 115-118

   17. Kinklike Excitations as an Energy Transfer Mechanism in Microtubles

       • M. V. Satarić, J. A. Tuszyński, R. B. Žakula

       Pages 119-122

3. Josephson Junctions and Electrical Transmission Lines

   1. Analysis of the Stability of Resonances in a Periodically Driven Josephson Junction

      • M. Planat, P. Koch

      Pages 123-126

   2. Soliton Density Waves in Josephson Junctions

      • A. V. Ustinov, O. H. Olsen, N. F. Pedersen, J. Mygind, V. A. Oboznov

      Pages 127-130

This volume contains the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) and Emil-Warburg-Symposium (EWS) "Nonlinear Coherent Structures in Phy­ sics and Biology" held at the University of Bayreuth from June 1 -4, 1993. Director of the ARW was K. H. Spatschek, while F.G. Mertens acted as the co-director, host, and organizer of the EWS. The other members of the scientific organizing committee were A.R. Bishop (Los Alamos), J.C. Eilbeck (Edinburgh), and M. Remoissenet (Dijon). This was the eighth meeting in a series of interdisciplinary workshops founded by our French colleagues who had organized all the previous workshops, e.g. 1989 in Montpel­ lier and 1991 in Dijon. We were asked to organize the meeting this time in Germany. Of course, we wanted to keep the character defined by the previous meetings, which were always characterized by an open and friendly atmosphere, being not too large in quantity, but high in quality. This time altogether 103 participants attended the workshop. During the past years most of the participants met several times and discussed problems connected with the generation of nonlinear coherent structures in physics and biology.

• Josephson junction
• atmosphere
• bifurcation
• biology
• convection
• density
• dynamics
• nonlinear dynamics
• physics
• quality
• soliton
• spin
• stability
• tractor
• turbulence

• Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  K. H. Spatschek

• University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

  F. G. Mertens

Policies and ethics