Interaction of moving discrete breathers with interstitial defects

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In this paper, interstitial migration generated by scattering with a mobile breather is investigated numerically in a Frenkel-Kontorova onedimensional lattice. Consistent with experimental results it is shown that interstitial diffusion is more likely and faster than vacancy diffusion. Our simulations support the hypothesis that a long-range energy transport mechanism involving moving nonlinear vibrational excitations may significantly enhance the mobility of point defects in a crystal lattice.

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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), project FIS2008-04848.

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