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Discrete breathers with purely anharmonic short-range interaction potentials localize super-exponentially becoming compact-like. We analyze their spatial localization properties and their dynamical stability. Several branches of solutions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Gorbach , S. Flach

We study a deterministic gas of breathers for the Focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The gas of breathers is obtained from a $N$-breather solution in the limit $N\to \infty$.\\ The limit is performed at the level of scattering data…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-02-09 Gregorio Falqui , Tamara Grava , Christian Puntini

We study the dynamics of the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattice initialized such that a very long transitory period of time in which standard Boltzmann statistics is insufficient is reached. Our study of the nonlinear system locked…

patt-sol · Physics 2015-06-26 K. Ø. Rasmussen , S. Aubry , A. R. Bishop , G. P. Tsironis

We study metastable behavior in a discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation from the viewpoint of Hamiltonian systems theory. When there are $n < \infty$ sites in this equation, we consider initial conditions in which almost all the energy…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Jean-Pierre Eckmann , C. Eugene Wayne

We investigate the existence and stability of discrete breathers in a chain of masses connected by linear springs and subjected to vibro-impact on-site potentials. The latter are comprised of harmonic springs and rigid constraints limiting…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-07-04 Nathan Perchikov , O. V. Gendelman

Breather solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation are derived in this paper: the Soliton on Finite Background, the Ma breather and the rational breather. A special Ansatz of a displaced phase-amplitude equation with respect to a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-25 N. Karjanto , E. van Groesen

We consider the evolution of the 2-soliton (breather) of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation on a semi-infinite line with the zero boundary condition and a linear potential, which corresponds to the gravity field in the presence of a hard…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-16 B. A. Malomed , N. N. Rosanov , S. V. Fedorov

We revisit the problem of transverse instability of a 2D breather stripe of the sine-Gordon (sG) equation. A numerically computed Floquet spectrum of the stripe is compared to analytical predictions developed by means of multiple-scale…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-30 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-González , J. Cuevas-Maraver , D. J. Frantzeskakis , J. -G. Caputo , B. A. Malomed

We study the properties of discrete breathers, also known as intrinsic localized modes, in the one-dimensional Frenkel-Kontorova lattice of oscillators subject to damping and external force. The system is studied in the whole range of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 J. L. Marin , F. Falo , P. J. Martinez , L. M. Floria

We show that the parity-time (PT) symmetric coupled optical waveguides with gain and loss support localised oscillatory structures similar to the breathers of the classical $\phi^4$ model. The power carried by the PT-breather oscillates…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-11-12 I. V. Barashenkov , Sergey V. Suchkov , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Sergey V. Dmitriev , Yuri S. Kivshar

We discuss the existence of breather solutions for a Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in an infinite $N$-dimensional lattice, involving site dependent anharmonic parameter. We give a simple proof on the existence of (nontrivial)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikos I. Karachalios

The purpose of this paper is to construct small-amplitude breather solutions for a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation posed on a periodic metric graph via spatial dynamics and center manifold reduction. The major difficulty occurs from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Daniela Maier

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. We study the existence of energy thresholds for discrete breathers, i.e.,…

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

We derive a Hamiltonian version of the ${\cal PT}$-symmetric discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation that describes synchronized dynamics of coupled pendula driven by a periodic movement of their common strings. In the limit of weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Alexander Chernyavsky , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We prove existence of real-valued, time-periodic and spatially localized solutions (breathers) of semilinear wave equations $V(x)u_{tt} - u_{xx} = \Gamma(x) |u|^{p-1} u$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$ for all values of $p\in (1,\infty)$. Using tools…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Julia Henninger , Sebastian Ohrem , Wolfgang Reichel

Oscillons are localized field configurations oscillating in time with lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than their oscillation period. In this paper, we simulate non-travelling oscillons produced by deforming the breather solutions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 José T. Gálvez Ghersi , Jonathan Braden

Nonlinear lattice models can support "discrete breather" excitations that stay localized in space for all time. By contrast, the localized Wannier states of linear lattice models are dynamically unstable. Nevertheless, symmetric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Frank Schindler , Vir B. Bulchandani , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

The formation and evolution of stationary and moving breather solutions in (2+1)-dimensional O(3) nonlinear $\sigma$-model are investigated. The analytical form of oscillating solutions for (2+1)-dimensional sine-Gordon equation, which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-04 F. Sh. Shokirov

In this paper we consider a discrete Klein-Gordon (dKG) equation on $\ZZ^d$ in the limit of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger (dNLS) equation, for which small-amplitude breathers have precise scaling with respect to the small coupling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Tiziano Penati , Simone Paleari

We report analytical and numerical results on breather-like field configurations in a theory which is a deformation of the integrable sine-Gordon model in (1+1) dimensions. The main motivation of our study is to test the ideas behind the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-24 L. A. Ferreira , Wojtek J. Zakrzewski