Dynamic long-period nanosized states in lattice structure

Using a biatomic chain of atoms as an example, whose interaction was represented by the Morse potential, we revealed a possibility for a long-lived, dynamic, long-period, nanosized state to persist in the lattice structure. This nanosized structure (in the case in question, the length of the spatial period of energy localization was found to be 16–20 nm) is generated under excitation of a vibrational short-wave mode, with the atoms of the light component only participating. The resulting dynamic nanostructures are principally different in their nature and characteristics from those described earlier and developed via a mechanism of modulation instability of short-wave vibrational modes.