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We present the noise free escape of a chain of linearly interacting units from a metastable state over a cubic on-site potential barrier. The underlying dynamics is conservative and purely deterministic. The mutual interplay between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-10 D. Hennig , S. Fugmann , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

We study solitary wave propagation in 1D granular crystals with Hertz-like interaction potentials. We consider interfaces between media with different exponents in the interaction potential. For an interface with increasing interaction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-01 Armin Kekić , Robert A. Van Gorder

We use recent results that localized excitations in nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices can be viewed and described as multiple-frequency excitations. Their dynamics in phase space takes place on tori of corresponding dimension. For a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Flach

We use recent results that localized excitations in nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices can be viewed and described as multiple-frequency excitations. Their dynamics in phase space takes place on tori of corresponding dimension. For a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Flach

We study the Langevin dynamics of a two-dimensional discrete oscillator chain absorbed on a periodic substrate and subjected to an external localized point force. Going beyond the commonly used harmonic bead-spring model, we consider a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Martens , D. Hennig , S. Fugmann , L. Schimansky-Geier

A device for absorbing and storing short duration impulses in an initially uncompressed one-dimensional granular chain is presented. Simply stated, short regions of sufficiently soft grains are embedded in a hard granular chain. These…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Michelle A. Przedborski , Thad A. Harroun , Surajit Sen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate experimental and numerical dynamic responses of a preloaded vibro-impacting Hertzian contact under sinusoidal excitation. Dynamic response under random excitation is analysed in the second part of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Emmanuel Rigaud , Joël Perret-Liaudet

We investigate numerically the propagation and the Anderson localization of plane waves in a one-dimensional lattice chain, where disorder and saturable nonlinearity are simultaneously present. Using a calculation scheme for solving the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-08 Ba Phi Nguyen , Kihong Kim

We theoretically study and experimentally report the propagation of nonlinear hysteretic torsional pulses in a vertical granular chain made of cm-scale, self-hanged magnetic beads. As predicted by contact mechanics, the torsional coupling…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 J. Cabaret , P. Béquin , G. Theocharis , V. Andreev , V. E. Gusev , V. Tournat

This paper presents an application of time-frequency methods to characterize the dispersion of acoustic waves travelling in a one-dimensional periodic or disordered lattice made up of Helmholtz resonators connected to a cylindrical tube.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Olivier Richoux , Claude Depollier , Jean Hardy

The present investigation deals with the dynamics of a two-degrees-of-freedom system which consists of a main linear oscillator and a strongly nonlinear absorber with small mass. The nonlinear oscillator has a softening hysteretic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-29 Denis Laxalde , Fabrice Thouverez , Jean-Jacques Sinou

Contact breaking and Hertzian interactions between grains can both give rise to nonlinear vibrational response of static granular packings. We perform molecular dynamics simulations at constant energy in 2D of frictionless bidisperse disks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-03 Carl F. Schreck , Corey S. O'Hern , Mark D. Shattuck

In this work, we study the existence of various classes of standing waves for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger system with quadratic interaction, along with a harmonic or partially harmonic potential. We establish the existence of ground-state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Vicente Alvarez , Amin Esfahani

We develop a theory of two-dimensional Bloch-Landau-Zener (BLZ) oscillations of wavepackets in incommensurate moir\'e lattices under the influence of a weak linear gradient. Unlike periodic systems, aperiodic lattices lack translational…

The interaction of the nonlinear internal waves with a nonuniform current with a specific form, characteristic for the equatorial undercurrent, is studied. The current has no vorticity in the layer, where the internal wave motion takes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Alan Compelli , Rossen Ivanov

We study the spatio-temporal evolution of wave packets in one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices which localize linear waves. Nonlinearity (related to two-body interactions) has destructive effect on localization, as recently observed for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-26 Marco Larcher , Tetyana V. Laptyeva , Joshua D. Bodyfelt , Franco Dalfovo , Michele Modugno , Sergej Flach

We studied effects of random potentials and roles of electron-electron interactions in the gapless phase of coupled Hubbard chains, using a renormalization group technique. For non-interacting electrons, we obtained the localization length…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroyuki Mori

Faraday waves are a classic example of a system in which an extended pattern emerges under spatially uniform forcing. Motivated by systems in which uniform excitation is not plausible, we study both experimentally and theoretically the…

Recently, a new general wave phenomenon, namely "the anti-localization of non-stationary linear waves", has been introduced and discussed (Shishkina et al., J. Sound. Vib. 553, 2023, 117673). This is zeroing of the propagating component for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-09 Serge N. Gavrilov , Ekaterina V. Shishkina , Bogdan S. Borisenkov

The shock wave structure in a one-dimensional lattice (e.g. granular chain) with a power law dependence of force on displacement between particles with viscous dissipation is considered and compared to the corresponding long wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 E. B. Herbold , V. F. Nesterenko