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Breathers and Thermal Relaxation in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Arrays

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Breather stability and longevity in thermally relaxing nonlinear arrays depend sensitively on their interactions with other excitations. We review the relaxation of breathers in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam arrays, with a specific focus on the different relaxation channels and their dependence on the interparticle interactions, dimensionality, initial condition, and system parameters.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210326,
  title  = {Breathers and Thermal Relaxation in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Arrays},
  author = {Ramon Reigada and Antonio Sarmiento and Katja Lindenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210326},
  year   = {2009}
}