1205.5457 (Uta Naether et al.)

Expansion of a wave-packet in lattices with disorder and nonlinearity    [PDF]

Uta Naether, Santiago Rojas-Rojas, Alejandro J. Martinez, Simon Sützer, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Mario I. Molina, Rodrigo A. Vicencio, Alexander Szameit

We show, theoretically and experimentally, the counterintuitive result that an increase of disorder can result in an enhanced spreading of an initially localized excitation. Moreover, we find that adding a focusing nonlinearity facilitates the expansion of the wave-packet even further by increasing its effective size. We find a clear transition between between the regions of enhanced spreading (weak disorder) and localization (strong localization) described by a "diffusion peak".

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5457