@article{MulanskyPicovsky2012,
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario and Picovsky, Arkady S.},
  title     = {Re-localization due to finite response times in a nonlinear Anderson chain},
  series = {The European physical journal : B, Condensed matter and complex systems},
  volume    = {85},
  journal   = {The European physical journal : B, Condensed matter and complex systems},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {1434-6028},
  doi       = {10.1140/epjb/e2012-21040-5},
  pages     = {3},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {We study a disordered nonlinear Schrodinger equation with an additional relaxation process having a finite response time tau. Without the relaxation term, tau = 0, this model has been widely studied in the past and numerical simulations showed subdiffusive spreading of initially localized excitations. However, recently Caetano et al. [Eur. Phys. J. B 80, 321 (2011)] found that by introducing a response time tau > 0, spreading is suppressed and any initially localized excitation will remain localized. Here, we explain the lack of subdiffusive spreading for tau > 0 by numerically analyzing the energy evolution. We find that in the presence of a relaxation process the energy drifts towards the band edge, which enforces the population of fewer and fewer localized modes and hence leads to re-localization. The explanation presented here relies on former findings by Mulansky et al. [Phys. Rev. E 80, 056212 (2009)] on the energy dependence of thermalized states.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Mulansky2014,
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario},
  title     = {Scaling of chaos in strongly nonlinear lattices},
  series = {Chaos : an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {Chaos : an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {American Institute of Physics},
  address   = {Melville},
  issn      = {1054-1500},
  doi       = {10.1063/1.4868259},
  pages     = {6},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Although it is now understood that chaos in complex classical systems is the foundation of thermodynamic behavior, the detailed relations between the microscopic properties of the chaotic dynamics and the macroscopic thermodynamic observations still remain mostly in the dark. In this work, we numerically analyze the probability of chaos in strongly nonlinear Hamiltonian systems and find different scaling properties depending on the nonlinear structure of the model. We argue that these different scaling laws of chaos have definite consequences for the macroscopic diffusive behavior, as chaos is the microscopic mechanism of diffusion. This is compared with previous results on chaotic diffusion [M. Mulansky and A. Pikovsky, New J. Phys. 15, 053015 (2013)], and a relation between microscopic chaos and macroscopic diffusion is established. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MulanskyAhnertPikovskijetal.2009,
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario and Ahnert, Karsten and Pikovskij, Arkadij and Shepelyansky, Dima L.},
  title     = {Dynamical thermalization of disordered nonlinear lattices},
  issn      = {1539-3755},
  doi       = {10.1103/Physreve.80.056212},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {We study numerically how the energy spreads over a finite disordered nonlinear one-dimensional lattice, where all linear modes are exponentially localized by disorder. We establish emergence of dynamical thermalization characterized as an ergodic chaotic dynamical state with a Gibbs distribution over the modes. Our results show that the fraction of thermalizing modes is finite and grows with the nonlinearity strength.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MulanskyPikovskij2012,
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario and Pikovskij, Arkadij},
  title     = {Scaling properties of energy spreading in nonlinear Hamiltonian two-dimensional lattices},
  series = {Physical review : E, Statistical, nonlinear and soft matter physics},
  volume    = {86},
  journal   = {Physical review : E, Statistical, nonlinear and soft matter physics},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  address   = {College Park},
  issn      = {1539-3755},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056214},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {In nonlinear disordered Hamiltonian lattices, where there are no propagating phonons, the spreading of energy is of subdiffusive nature. Recently, the universality class of the subdiffusive spreading according to the nonlinear diffusion equation (NDE) has been suggested and checked for one-dimensional lattices. Here, we apply this approach to two-dimensional strongly nonlinear lattices and find a nice agreement of the scaling predicted from the NDE with the spreading results from extensive numerical studies. Moreover, we show that the scaling works also for regular lattices with strongly nonlinear coupling, for which the scaling exponent is estimated analytically. This shows that the process of chaotic diffusion in such lattices does not require disorder.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MulanskyPikovskij2013,
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario and Pikovskij, Arkadij},
  title     = {Energy spreading in strongly nonlinear disordered lattices},
  series = {New journal of physics : the open-access journal for physics},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {New journal of physics : the open-access journal for physics},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {IOP Publ. Ltd.},
  address   = {Bristol},
  issn      = {1367-2630},
  doi       = {10.1088/1367-2630/15/5/053015},
  pages     = {23},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {We study the scaling properties of energy spreading in disordered strongly nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices. Such lattices consist of nonlinearly coupled local linear or nonlinear oscillators, and demonstrate a rather slow, subdiffusive spreading of initially localized wave packets. We use a fractional nonlinear diffusion equation as a heuristic model of this process, and confirm that the scaling predictions resulting from a self-similar solution of this equation are indeed applicable to all studied cases. We show that the spreading in nonlinearly coupled linear oscillators slows down compared to a pure power law, while for nonlinear local oscillators a power law is valid in the whole studied range of parameters.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MulanskyAhnertPikovskijetal.2011,
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario and Ahnert, Karsten and Pikovskij, Arkadij and Shepelyansky, Dima L.},
  title     = {Strong and weak chaos in weakly nonintegrable many-body hamiltonian systems},
  series = {Journal of statistical physics},
  volume    = {145},
  journal   = {Journal of statistical physics},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0022-4715},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10955-011-0335-3},
  pages     = {1256 -- 1274},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {We study properties of chaos in generic one-dimensional nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices comprised of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators by numerical simulations of continuous-time systems and symplectic maps. For small coupling, the measure of chaos is found to be proportional to the coupling strength and lattice length, with the typical maximal Lyapunov exponent being proportional to the square root of coupling. This strong chaos appears as a result of triplet resonances between nearby modes. In addition to strong chaos we observe a weakly chaotic component having much smaller Lyapunov exponent, the measure of which drops approximately as a square of the coupling strength down to smallest couplings we were able to reach. We argue that this weak chaos is linked to the regime of fast Arnold diffusion discussed by Chirikov and Vecheslavov. In disordered lattices of large size we find a subdiffusive spreading of initially localized wave packets over larger and larger number of modes. The relations between the exponent of this spreading and the exponent in the dependence of the fast Arnold diffusion on coupling strength are analyzed. We also trace parallels between the slow spreading of chaos and deterministic rheology.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MulanskyAhnertPikovskij2011,
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario and Ahnert, Karsten and Pikovskij, Arkadij},
  title     = {Scaling of energy spreading in strongly nonlinear disordered lattices},
  series = {Physical review : E, Statistical, nonlinear and soft matter physics},
  volume    = {83},
  journal   = {Physical review : E, Statistical, nonlinear and soft matter physics},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  address   = {College Park},
  issn      = {1539-3755},
  doi       = {10.1103/PhysRevE.83.026205},
  pages     = {4},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {To characterize a destruction of Anderson localization by nonlinearity, we study the spreading behavior of initially localized states in disordered, strongly nonlinear lattices. Due to chaotic nonlinear interaction of localized linear or nonlinear modes, energy spreads nearly subdiffusively. Based on a phenomenological description by virtue of a nonlinear diffusion equation, we establish a one-parameter scaling relation between the velocity of spreading and the density, which is confirmed numerically. From this scaling it follows that for very low densities the spreading slows down compared to the pure power law.},
  language  = {en}
}