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Discrete breathers (DBs) -- a spatial time-periodic localization of energy -- are predicted in a large variety of non-linear systems. Motivated by the conceptual bridging of the DBs phenomena in classical and quantum mechanical…

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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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Gyula Fodor , Péter Forgács , Philippe Grandclément

Dynamic state estimation (DSE) is becoming increasingly important for monitoring inverter-dominated power systems. Due to their cascading control structures, inverter-based resources (IBRs) exhibit multi-timescale dynamics, leading to stiff…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Xingyu Zhao , Marcos Netto , Junbo Zhao

Nonlinearity and disorder are key players in vibrational lattice dynamics, responsible for localization and delocalization phenomena. $q$-Breathers -- periodic orbits in nonlinear lattices, exponentially localized in the reciprocal linear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Ivanchenko

We consider a chain of torsionally-coupled, planar pendula shaken horizontally by an external sinusoidal driver. It has been known that in such a system, theoretically modeled by the discrete sine-Gordon equation, intrinsic localized modes,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-20 F. Palmero , J. Han , L. Q. English , T. J. Alexander , P. G. Kevrekidis

We prove the existence of time-periodic solutions and spatially localised solutions (breathers), in general nonlinear Klein-Gordon infinite lattices. The existence problem is converted into a fixed point problem for an operator on some…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-02-17 Dirk Hennig

The differential constraints are applied to obtain explicit solutions of nonlinear diffusion equations. Certain linear determining equations with parameters are used to find such differential constraints. They generalize the determining…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Oleg V. Kaptsov , Igor V. Verevkin

In classical mechanics, solutions can be classified according to their stability. Each of them is part of the possible trajectories of the system. However, the signatures of unstable solutions are hard to observe in an experiment, and most…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-05 Jaime Cisternas , Paula Mellado , Felipe Urbina , Cristóbal Portilla , Miguel Carrasco , Andrés Concha

This letter studies the dynamical properties of safety filters designed based on Control Barrier Functions (CBF). This mechanism, which is popular in safety-critical applications, takes a nominal controller and minimally modifies it to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Pol Mestres , Shima Sadat Mousavi , Aaron D. Ames

To provide robustness of distributed model predictive control (DMPC), this work proposes a robust DMPC formulation for discrete-time linear systems subject to unknown-but-bounded disturbances. Taking advantage of the structure of certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Ye Wang , Chris Manzie

We present analytical and numerical study of discrete breathers identified as localized deformations of valence angles accompanied by change of valence bonds in crystalline polyethylene (PE). It is shown that such breathers can exist inside…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. I. Manevitch , A. V. Savin , C. -H. Lamarque

In the present work, we examine a prototypical model for the formation of bright breathers in nonlinear left-handed metamaterial lattices. Utilizing the paradigm of nonlinear transmission lines, we build a relevant lattice and develop a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-02-14 V. Koukouloyannis , P. G. Kevrekidis , G. P. Veldes , D. J. Frantzeskakis , D. DiMarzio , X. Lan , V. Radisic

We touch upon the wide topic of discrete breather formation with a special emphasis on the the $\phi^4$ model. We start by introducing the model and discussing some of the application areas/motivational aspects of exploring time periodic,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-25 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis

This paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of the solution of a weakly damped second order linear differential equation that is subjected to outside forcing, for which solutions of the unforced equation are…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 John A. D. Appleby , Subham Pal

In this article, we investigate the existence and properties of time-periodic solutions for damped evolutionary partial differential equations subject to periodic forcing. Particular emphasis is placed on configurations where the energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Camille Laurent , Ivonne Rivas

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

The wave equation with energy critical sources and nonlinear damping defined on a 3D bounded domain is considered. It is shown that the resulting dynamical system admits a global attractor. Under the additional assumption of strong…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Irena Lasiecka , Vando Narciso

A theory of stress fields in two-dimensional granular materials based on directed force chain networks is presented. A general equation for the densities of force chains in different directions is proposed and a complete solution is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. S. Socolar , D. G. Schaeffer , P. Claudin

Identifying the dynamic precompensator that renders a nonlinear control system feedback linearizable is a challenging problem. Researchers have explored the problem -- dynamic feedback linearization -- and produced existence conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Rollen S. D'Souza

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