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Phys. Rev. B 59, 4074–4079 (1999)

Interplay of disorder and nonlinearity in Klein-Gordon models: Immobile kinks

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Serge F. Mingaleev and Yuri B. Gaididei
Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 252143 Kiev, Ukraine

Eva Majerníková
Department of Theoretical Physics of Palacký University, CZ-77207 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Institute of Physics, SAS, SK-84228 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Serge Shpyrko
Institute for Nuclear Research, 252028 Kiev, Ukraine

Received 30 April 1998; revised 8 October 1998; published in the issue dated 1 February 1999

We consider Klein-Gordon models with a δ-correlated spatial disorder. We show that the properties of immobile kinks exhibit strong dependence on the assumptions as to their statistical distribution over the minima of the effective random potential. Namely, there exists a crossover from monotonically increasing (when a kink occupies the deepest potential well) to the nonmonotonic (at equiprobable distribution of kinks over the potential minima) dependence of the average kink width as a function of the disorder intensity. We show also that the same crossover may take place with changing size of the system.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.4074
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.59.4074
PACS:
71.55.Jv