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We present a simple numerical method for the discrete breather construction based on the idea of the pair synchronization of the particles involved in the breather vibration. It can be used for obtaining exact breather solutions in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-12-03 G. M. Chechin , G. S. Dzhelauhova

Dynamics of array of coupled self-excited oscillators is considered. Model of Franklin bell is adopted as a mechanism for the self-excitation. The model allows derivation of exact analytic solutions for discrete breathers (DBs), and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 I. B. Shiroky , O. V. Gendelman

We consider the long-term weakly nonlinear evolution governed by the two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with an isotropic harmonic oscillator potential. The dynamics in this regime is dominated by resonant interactions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-09-16 Anxo Biasi , Oleg Evnin , Boris A. Malomed

We study collision processes of moving breathers with the same frequency, traveling with opposite directions within a Klein-Gordon chain of oscillators. Two types of collisions have been analyzed: symmetric and non-symmetric, head-on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Alvarez , F. R. Romero , J. Cuevas , J. F. R. Archilla

We consider a Hamiltonian chain of weakly coupled anharmonic oscillators. It is well known that if the coupling is weak enough then the system admits families of periodic solutions exponentially localized in space (breathers). In this paper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Dario Bambusi

We analyze the properties of breathers (time periodic spatially localized solutions) on chains in the presence of algebraically decaying interactions $1/r^s$. We find that the spatial decay of a breather shows a crossover from exponential…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Flach

We study the scattering of a moving discrete breather (DB) on a junction in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) chain consisting of two segments with different masses of the particles. We consider four distinct cases: (i) a light-heavy (abrupt)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Ioana Bena , Avadh Saxena , Jose Maria Sancho

We investigate the interplay of nonreciprocity and nonlinearity in a one-dimensional nonlinear Klein-Gordon chain of classical oscillators coupled by asymmetric springs, akin to a mechanical analogue of the Hatano-Nelson model with onsite…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-13 Bertin Many Manda

In this paper we study the existence and linear stability of bright and dark breathers in one-dimensional FPU lattices. On the one hand, we test the range of validity of a recent breathers existence proof [G. James, {\em C. R. Acad. Sci.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Sánchez-Rey , G. James , J. Cuevas , J. F. R. Archilla

The unique geometry of the two-dimensional tripartite Kagome lattice is responsible for shaping diverse families of spatially localized and time-periodic nonlinear modes known as discrete breathers. We state conditions for the existence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-19 Andrew Hofstrand

The existence, stability and movability of breathers in a model for alpha-helix proteins is studied. This model basically consists a chain of dipole moments parallel to it. The existence of localized linear modes brings about that the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 J. F. R. Archilla , Yu B. Gaididei , P. L. Christiansen , J. Cuevas

We investigate the long-time evolution of weakly perturbed single-site breathers (localized stationary states) in the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger (DNLS) equation. The perturbations we consider correspond to time-periodic solutions of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Magnus Johansson , Serge Aubry

We study the thermodynamics of discrete breathers by transforming a lattice of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators into an effective Ising pseudospin model. We introduce a replica ensemble and investigate the effective system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Eleftheriou , G. P. Tsironis

We explore the dynamics of strongly localized periodic solutions (discrete solitons, or discrete breathers) in a finite one-dimensional chain of asymmetric vibro-impact oscillators. The model involves a parabolic on-site potential with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-12 I. Grinberg , O. V. Gendelman

Discrete breathers are time-periodic, spatially localized solutions of equations of motion for classical degrees of freedom interacting on a lattice. They come in one-parameter families. We report on studies of energy properties of breather…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Flach , K. Kladko , R. S. MacKay

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

In this work, we study the dynamics of an infinite array of nonlinear dimer oscillators which are linearly coupled as in the classical model of Su, Schrieffer and Heeger (SSH). The ratio of in-cell and out-of-cell couplings of the SSH model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-07 A. Hofstrand , H. Li , M. I. Weinstein

We demonstrate that period-doubled discrete breathers appear from the anti-continuum limit of the driven Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model of DNA. These novel breathers result from a stability overlap between sub-harmonic solutions of the driven…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-01-13 P. Maniadis , B. S. Alexandrov , A. R. Bishop , K. Ø. Rasmussen

We explore dynamics of discrete breathers and multi-breathers in finite one-dimensional chain. The model involves parabolic on-site potential with rigid constraints and linear nearest-neighbor coupling. The rigid non-ideal impact…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-28 Itay Grinberg , Oleg V. Gendelman

We describe, for the first time, the full 2D scattering of long-lived breathers in a model hexagonal lattice of atoms. The chosen system, representing an idealized model of mica, combines a Lennard-Jones interatomic potential with an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-22 J. Bajars , J. C. Eilbeck , B. Leimkuhler