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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…

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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 establish a sharp criterion for the stability of a class of compactly supported, homogeneous density``minimal compact solitons'' or MCS states, of the time-dependent discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a multi-lattice, $\mathbb…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-27 Cheng Shi , Ross Parker , Panayotis G. Kevrekides , Michael I. Weinstein

We prove the existence of discrete breathers (time-periodic, spatially localized solutions) in weakly coupled ferromagnetic spin chains with easy-axis anisotropy. Using numerical methods we then investigate the continuation of discrete…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Speight , P. M. Sutcliffe

We study the dynamics of discrete breathers -- spatially localized and time-periodic solutions -- inside the bandgap of a nonlinear honeycomb lattice where the dispersion landscape approaches a so-called semi-Dirac point in which the bands…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-10 Andrew Hofstrand

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

Breathers are nontrivial time-periodic and spatially localized solutions of nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations (PDEs). Families of breathers have been found for certain integrable PDEs but are believed to be rare in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Otávio M. L. Gomide , Marcel Guardia , Tere M. Seara , Chongchun Zeng

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

Certain tight binding lattices host macroscopically degenerate flat spectral bands. Their origin is rooted in local symmetries of the lattice, with destructive interference leading to the existence of compact localized eigenstates. We study…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-01-13 Daniel Leykam , Joshua D. Bodyfelt , Anton S. Desyatnikov , Sergej Flach

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 demonstrate that a complete class of flat-band lattices with underlying commutative local symmetries exhibit a locally fragmented Hilbert space. The equitable partition theorem ensures distinct parities for the compact localized states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 Eloi Nicolau , Anselmo M. Marques , Ricardo G. Dias , Verònica Ahufinger

We present a study of the existence, stability and bifurcation structure of families of dark breathers in a one-dimensional uniform chain of spherical beads under static load. A defocus- ing nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) is derived…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Chong , P. G. Kevrekidis , G. Theocharis , Chiara Daraio

We consider an infinite chain of particles linearly coupled to their nearest neighbours and subject to an anharmonic local potential. The chain is assumed weakly inhomogeneous. We look for small amplitude discrete breathers. The problem is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Guillaume James , Bernardo Sanchez-Rey , Jesus Cuevas

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

We examine the dynamics of strongly localized periodic solutions (discrete breathers) in two-dimensional array of coupled finite one-dimensional chains of oscillators. Localization patterns with both single and multiple localization sites…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-18 Itay Grinberg , Oleg V. Gendelman

A group-theoretical approach for studying localized periodic and quasiperiodic vibrations in 2D and 3D lattice dynamical models is developed. This approach is demonstrated for the scalar models on the plane square lattice. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-10 George Chechin , Galina Bezuglova , Petr Goncharov

In this paper we consider a 2D hexagonal crystal lattice model first proposed by Marin, Eilbeck and Russell in 1998. We perform a detailed numerical study of nonlinear propagating localized modes, that is, propagating discrete breathers and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-24 J. Bajars , J. C. Eilbeck , B. Leimkuhler

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. An important issue, not only from a theoretical point of view but also for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Kastner

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-05-24 Marisa M. Lee , Efstathios G. Charalampidis , Siyuan Xing , Christopher Chong , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We investigate the origin of the ubiquitous existence of flat bands in the network superstructures of atomic chains, where one-dimensional(1D) atomic chains array periodically. While there can be many ways to connect those chains, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-29 Donghyeok Heo , Jun Seop Lee , Anwei Zhang , Jun-Won Rhim