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Nonlinear classical Hamiltonian lattices exhibit generic solutions in the form of discrete breathers. These solutions are time-periodic and (typically exponentially) localized in space. The lattices exhibit discrete translational symmetry.…

patt-sol · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Flach , C. R. Willis

We report on the existence of discrete breathers in a one-dimensional, mass-in-mass chain with linear intersite coupling and nonlinear Hertzian local resonators, which is motivated by recent studies of the dynamics of microspheres adhered…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-01 S. P. Wallen , J. Lee , D. Mei , C. Chong , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Boechler

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Boechler , G. Theocharis , S. Job , P. G. Kevrekidis , M. A. Porter , C. Daraio

Driven Kerr nonlinear optical resonators can sustain localized structures known as dissipative Kerr cavity solitons, which have recently attracted significant attention as the temporal counterparts of microresonator optical frequency combs.…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Zongda Li , Stéphane Coen , Stuart G. Murdoch , Miro Erkintalo

Discrete bright breathers are well known phenomena. They are localized excitations that consist of a few excited oscillators in a lattice and the rest of them having very small amplitude or none. In this paper we are interested in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Alvarez , J. F. R. Archilla , J. Cuevas , F. R. Romero

We theoretically derive the Hamiltonian dynamics of dispersion-managed coupled breathers in optical transmission system as a result of phases-plane dynamics of the system. We analytically show that the contribution of a perturbation term…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 H. I. Elim , F. P. Zen

Existence of breather (spatially localized, time periodic, oscillatory) solutions of the topological discrete sine-Gordon (TDSG) system, in the regime of weak coupling, is proved. The novelty of this result is that, unlike the systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Haskins , J. M. Speight

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.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Hoogeboom , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena , A. R. Bishop

Stability domains (i.e. pump frequency detuning range) of a single dark soliton (or platicon) and dark breather in high-Q Kerr optical microresonators with normal group velocity dispersion is studied for a wide range of pump amplitudes…

The dynamics of two component coupled Airy beams is investigated. In the linear propagation regime a complete analytic solution describes breather like propagation of the two components featuring non-diffracting self-accelerating Airy…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , T. Meier

We investigate the existence of spatially localised solutions, in the form of discrete breathers, in general damped and driven nonlinear lattice systems of coupled oscillators. Conditions for the exponential decay of the difference between…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-25 Dirk Hennig

Microcombs, formed in optical microresonators driven by continuous-wave lasers, are miniaturized optical frequency combs. Leveraging integrated photonics and laser self-injection locking (SIL), compact microcombs can be constructed via…

We report the results of molecular dynamics simulations of an off-lattice protein model featuring a physical force-field and amino-acid sequence. We show that localized modes of nonlinear origin (discrete breathers) emerge naturally as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-08-02 S. Luccioli , A. Imparato , S. Lepri , F. Piazza , A. Torcini

Optical rogue waves and its variants have been studied quite extensively in the context of optical fiber in recent years. It has been realized that dispersion management in optical fiber is experimentally much more feasible compared to its…

We present a stability analysis of the Lugiato-Lefever model for Kerr optical frequency combs in whispering gallery mode resonators pumped in the anomalous dispersion regime. This article is the second part of a research work whose first…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-08-13 Irina Balakireva , Aurélien Coillet , Cyril Godey , Yanne K. Chembo

The nonlinear interaction of a microresonator pumped by a laser has revealed complex dynamics including soliton formation and chaos. Initial studies of coupled-resonator systems reveal even more complicated dynamics that can lead to…

Kerr frequency combs generated from microresonators are the subject of intense study. Most research employs microresonators with anomalous dispersion, for which modulation instability is believed to play a key role in initiation of the…

Optical frequency combs allow for precise measurement of optical frequencies and are used in a growing number of applications beyond spectroscopy and optical frequency metrology. A class of compact microresonator based frequency comb…

We study a locally resonant granular material in the form of a precompressed Hertzian chain with linear internal resonators. Using an asymptotic reduction, we derive an effective nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) modulation equation. This, in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-29 Lifeng Liu , Guillaume James , Panayotis Kevrekidis , Anna Vainchtein

We propose a detailed stability analysis of the Lugiato-Lefever model for Kerr optical frequency combs in whispering gallery mode resonators pumped in the normal dispersion regime. We analyze the spatial bifurcation structure of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-06-25 Cyril Godey , Irina Balakireva , Aurélien Coillet , Yanne K. Chembo