Introduction: Nonlinear localized modes

Abstract

The last ten years have seen remarkable developments in the research of nonlinear localized modes in different physical systems. This activity has blazed new trails in the nonlinear physics of spatially localized structures, after many years of active study of exactly integrable nonlinear equations and their localized solutions, solitons. One of the most exciting results of the past decade has been the discovery of stable highly localized nonlinear modes of discrete lattices, discrete breathers or intrinsic localized modes. Show more