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For the James breathers in the K2-K3-K4 chain and for breathers in the K4-chain, we prove numerically that these dynamical objects are not strictly time-periodic. Indeed, for the both cases, there exist certain deviations in the vibrational…
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We present a family of discrete breathers, which exists in a nonlinear polarizability model of ferroelectric materials. The core-shell model is set up in its non-dimensionalized Hamiltonian form and its linear spectrum is examined.…
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We report the experimental observation of discrete breathers in a one-dimensional diatomic granular crystal composed of compressed elastic beads that interact via Hertzian contact. We first characterize their effective linear spectrum both…
This work focuses on the study of time-periodic solutions, including breathers, in a nonlinear lattice consisting of elements whose contacts alternate between strain-hardening and strain-softening. The existence, stability, and bifurcation…
We obtain real-valued, time-periodic and radially symmetric solutions of the cubic Klein-Gordon equation \begin{align} \partial_t^2 U - \Delta U + m^2 U = \Gamma (x) U^3 \quad \text{on } \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^3, \end{align} which are…
We study spatially localized, time-periodic solutions (breathers) of scalar field theories with various self-interacting potentials on Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes in $D$ dimensions. A detailed numerical study of spherically symmetric…
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