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We investigate, both analytically and numerically, dispersive fractalization and quantization of solutions to periodic linear and nonlinear Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou systems. When subject to periodic boundary conditions and discontinuous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-02 Peter J. Olver , Ari Stern

It is shown numerically that for Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) chains with alternating masses and heat baths at slightly different temperatures at the ends, the local temperature (LT) on small scales behaves paradoxically in steady state. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Trieu Mai , Abhishek Dhar , Onuttom Narayan

We study the asymptotic dynamics of breathers in finite Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains at zero and non-zero temperatures. While such breathers are essentially stationary and very long-lived at zero temperature, thermal fluctuations tend to lead to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Reigada , A. Sarmiento , Katja Lindenberg

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) system, initially introduced by Fermi for numerical simulations, models vibrating chains with fixed endpoints, where particles interact weakly, nonlinearly with their nearest neighbors. Contrary to the anticipated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Chulkwang Kwak , Changhun Yang

Discrete breathers are time-periodic, spatially localized solutions of the equations of motion for a system of classical degrees of freedom interacting on a lattice. Such solutions are investigated for a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain, i.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume James , Michael Kastner

We investigate the dynamics of the Fermi--Pasta--Ulam--Tsingou chain with long-wavelength random initial data. When the energy per particle is small, thermal equilibrium is not reached on a fast timescale and the system enters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Matteo Gallone , Ricardo Grande , Antonio Ponno , Stefano Ruffo , Erwan Druais

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) one-dimensional Hamiltonian includes a quartic term which guarantees ergodicity of the system in the thermodynamic limit. Consistently, the Boltzmann factor $P(\epsilon) \sim e^{-\beta \epsilon}$ describes its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Debarshee Bagchi , Constantino Tsallis

The equilibration of sinusoidally modulated distribution of the kinetic temperature is analyzed in the $\beta$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain with different degrees of nonlinearity and for different wavelengths of temperature modulation.…

Bushes of normal modes represent the exact excitations in nonlinear physical systems with discrete symmetries [Physica D117 (1998) 43]. The present paper is the continuation of our previous paper [Physica D166 (2002) 208], where these…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. M. Chechin , K. G. Zhukov , D. S. Ryabov

We study the statistics and short-times dynamics of the classical and the quantum Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain in thermal equilibrium. We analyze the distributions of single-particle configurations by integrating out the rest of the system. At…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Graziano Amati , Tanja Schilling

We study the slow relaxation of isolated quasi-integrable systems, focusing on the classical problem of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPU) chain. It is well-known that the initial energy sharing between different linear-modes can be inferred by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-06 Tomer Goldfriend , Jorge Kurchan

We demonstrate that the modulation instability of the zone boundary mode in a finite (periodic) Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain is the necessary but not sufficient condition for the efficient energy transfer by localized excitations. This transfer…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-19 L. I. Manevitch , V. V. Smirnov

By combining results of Mizumachi on the stability of solitons for the Toda lattice with a simple rescaling and a careful control of the KdV limit we give a simple proof that small amplitude, long-wavelength solitary waves in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-11-17 A. Hoffman , C. E. Wayne

We perform classical non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations to calculate heat flow through a microscopic junction connecting two larger reservoirs. In contrast to earlier works, we also include the reservoirs in the simulated region…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 K. Sääskilahti , J. Oksanen , R. P. Linna , J. Tulkki

In a dissipative Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain particles interact with their nearest neighbors through anharmonic potentials and linear dissipative forces. We prove the existence of front solutions connecting two different uniformly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Michael Herrmann , Guillaume James , Karsten Matthies

The FPUT paradox is the phenomenon whereby a one-dimensional chain of oscillators with nonlinear couplings shows non-ergodic behavior. The trajectory of the system in phase space, with a long wavelength initial condition, closely follows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-08 Nachiket Karve , Nathan Rose , David Campbell

The problem of detecting specific features of microscopic dynamics in the macroscopic behavior of a many-degrees-of-freedom system is investigated by analyzing the position and momentum time series of a heavy impurity embedded in a chain of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Romero-Bastida , D. Castaneda , E. Braun

Upon initial excitation of a few normal modes the energy distribution among all modes of a nonlinear atomic chain (the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model) exhibits exponential localization on large time scales. At the same time resonant anomalies…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Tiziano Penati , Sergej Flach

The recently discovered phenomenon of nonlinear supratransmission consists in a sudden increase of the amplitude of a transmitted wave triggered by the excitation of nonlinear localized modes of the medium. We examine this process for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Ramaz Khomeriki , Stefano Lepri , Stefano Ruffo

We address the question of the effect of disorder on heat conduction in an anharmonic chain with interactions given by the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) potential. In contrast to the conclusions of an earlier paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 63 (2001)]…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-01-29 Abhishek Dhar , Keiji Saito