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Soliton-like excitations and solectrons in two-dimensional nonlinear lattices

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We discuss here the thermal excitation of soliton-like supersonic, intrinsic localized modes in two-dimensional monolayers of atoms imbedded into a heat bath. These excitations induce local electrical polarization fields at the nano-scale in the lattice which influence electron dynamics, thus leading to a new form of trapping. We study the soliton-mediated electron dynamics in such systems at moderately high temperatures and calculate the density of embedded electrons in a suitable adiabatic approximation.

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Chetverikov, A., Ebeling, W. & Velarde, M. Soliton-like excitations and solectrons in two-dimensional nonlinear lattices. Eur. Phys. J. B 80, 137–145 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-10604-0

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