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Mode-Locking of mobile discrete breathers

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2007-05-23 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study numerically synchronization phenomena of mobile discrete breathers in dissipative nonlinear lattices periodically forced. When varying the driving intensity, the breather velocity generically locks at rational multiples of the driving frequency. In most cases, the locking plateau coincides with the linear stability domain of the resonant mobile breather and the desynchronization occurs by regular appearance of type I intermittencies. However, some plateaux also show chaotic mobile breathers with locked velocity in the locking region. The addition of a small subharmonic driving tames the locked chaotic solution and enhances the stability of resonant mobile breathers.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0410018,
  title  = {Mode-Locking of mobile discrete breathers},
  author = {D. Zueco and P. J. Martinez and L. M. Floria and F. Falo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0410018},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Figure 1 improved. updated references. Published version

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