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The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem addresses fundamental questions in statistical physics, and attempts to understand the origin of recurrences in the system have led to many great advances in nonlinear dynamics and mathematical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-06 Santhosh Ganapa

The FPUT paradox is the phenomenon whereby a one-dimensional chain of oscillators with nonlinear couplings shows non-ergodic behavior. The trajectory of the system in phase space, with a long wavelength initial condition, closely follows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-08 Nachiket Karve , Nathan Rose , David Campbell

We study conversion of thermal energy to mechanical energy and vice versa in $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou~(FPUT) chain with spatially sinusoidal profile of initial temperature. We show analytically that coupling between macroscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Vitaly A. Kuzkin , Anton M. Krivtsov

This review provides an up-to-date account of energy transport in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) chains, a key testbed for nonequilibrium statistical physics. We discuss the transition from the historical puzzle of thermalization to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-18 Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Antonio Politi

Understanding the interplay between different wave excitations, such as phonons and localized solitons, is crucial for developing coarse-grained descriptions of many-body, near-integrable systems. We treat the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-12 Tomer Goldfriend

We study the thermalization dynamics of one-dimensional diatomic lattices (which represents the simplest system possessing multi-branch phonons), exemplified by the famous Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT)-$\beta$ and the Toda models. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-19 Sihan Feng , Weicheng Fu , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

We report numerical evidence of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT)-like recurrence in weakly damped, periodically driven alpha-FPUT chains. In narrow regions of driving amplitude and damping, the steady-state energy is exchanged among a few…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yujun Shi , Haijiang Ren

We present some analytic results aiming at explaining the lack of thermalization observed by Fermi Pasta and Ulam in their celebrated numerical experiment. In particular we focus on results which persist as the number $N$ of particles tends…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Dario Bambusi , Andrea Carati , Alberto Maiocchi , Alberto Maspero

We investigate, both analytically and numerically, dispersive fractalization and quantization of solutions to periodic linear and nonlinear Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou systems. When subject to periodic boundary conditions and discontinuous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-02 Peter J. Olver , Ari Stern

Most studies on the problem of equilibration of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) system have focused on equipartition of energy being attained amongst the normal modes of the corresponding harmonic system. In the present work, we instead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-07 Santhosh Ganapa , Amit Apte , Abhishek Dhar

Nonlinear normal modes are periodic orbits that survive in nonlinear chains, whose instability plays a crucial role in the dynamics of many-body Hamiltonian systems toward thermalization. Here we focus on how the stability of nonlinear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-02 Liangtao Peng , Weicheng Fu , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

The dynamics of initial long-wavelength excitations of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain has been the subject of intense investigations since the pioneering work of Fermi and collaborators. We have recently found a new regime where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Matteo Gallone , Antonio Ponno , Stefano Ruffo

The Fermi--Pasta--Ulam--Tsingou (FPUT) system, describing the evolution of $N$ coupled harmonic oscillators, has been the subject of much attention since the 1950's when experiments which contradicted predictions of thermalization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Katja Vassilev , Boyang Wu

The integrable nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) is a fundamental model of nonlinear science which also has important consequences in engineering. The powerful framework of the periodic inverse scattering transform (IST) provides a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Jan-Willem Goossens , Hartmut Hafermann , Yves Jaouën

We investigate the dynamics of the Fermi--Pasta--Ulam--Tsingou chain with long-wavelength random initial data. When the energy per particle is small, thermal equilibrium is not reached on a fast timescale and the system enters…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Matteo Gallone , Ricardo Grande , Antonio Ponno , Stefano Ruffo , Erwan Druais

In 1955, Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and Tsingou reported recurrence over time of energy between modes in a one-dimensional array of nonlinear oscillators. Subsequently, there have been myriad numerical experiments using homogenous FPUT arrays,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-19 Heather Nelson , Mason A. Porter , Bhaskar Choubey

A brief review of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) paradox is given, together with its suggested resolutions and its relation to other physical problems. We focus on the ideas and concepts that have become the core of modern nonlinear mechanics,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. P. Berman , F. M. Izrailev

We investigate the long term evolution of trajectories in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) system, using as a probe the first non--trivial integral $J$ in the hierarchy of integrals of the corresponding Toda lattice model. To this end we perform…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-06 H. Christodoulidi , C. Efthymiopoulos

We investigate the equilibration process of the strongly coupled quartic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) model by adding Langevin baths to the ends of the chain. The time evolution of the system is investigated by means of extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-07 Harald Schmid , Sauro Succi , Stefano Ruffo

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) system, initially introduced by Fermi for numerical simulations, models vibrating chains with fixed endpoints, where particles interact weakly, nonlinearly with their nearest neighbors. Contrary to the anticipated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Chulkwang Kwak , Changhun Yang
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