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Wave kinetic theory has been suggested as a way to understand the longtime statistical behavior of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) system, with the aim of determining the thermalization time scale. The latter has been a major problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Boyang Wu

We study the dynamics of the $(\alpha+\beta)$ Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice (FPUT lattice, for short) for an arbitrary number $N$ of interacting particles, in regimes of small enough nonlinearity so that a Birkhoff-Gustavson type of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-03 Tiziana Comito , Matteo Lotriglia , Miguel D. Bustamante

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

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

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

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

In systems of N coupled anharmonic oscillators, exact resonant interactions play an important role in the energy exchange between normal modes. In the weakly nonlinear regime, those interactions may facilitate energy equipartition in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-05 Miguel D. Bustamante , Kevin Hutchinson , Yuri V. Lvov , Miguel Onorato

We deal with dynamics of the~$\beta$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain with one free end, subjected to the sinusoidal periodic force. We examine evolution of the total energy, supplied at large times. In the harmonic case~($\beta=0$), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-11 Sergei D. Liazhkov

The foundations of weak turbulence theory is explored through its application to the (alpha) Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model, a simple weakly nonlinear dispersive system. A direct application of the standard kinetic equations would miss…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter R. Kramer , Joseph A. BIello , Yury Lvov

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) chains of particles in \textit{thermal equilibrium} are studied from both wave-interaction and particle-interaction points of view. It is shown that, even in a strongly nonlinear regime, the chain in thermal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-07-20 Boris Gershgorin

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 consider the original $\beta$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou ($\beta$-FPUT) system; numerical simulations and theoretical arguments suggest that, for a finite number of masses, a statistical equilibrium state is reached independently of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-05 Yuri V Lvov , Miguel Onorato

We apply Wave Turbulence theory to describe the dynamics on nonlinear one-dimensional chains. We consider $\alpha$ and $\beta$ Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) systems, and the discrete nonlinear Klein-Gordon chain. We demonstrate that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-08 Lorenzo Pistone , Sergio Chibbaro , Miguel Bustamante , Yuri L'vov , Miguel Onorato

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 observation of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) paradox, namely the lack of equipartition in the evolution of a normal mode in a nonlinear chain on unexpectedly long times, is arguably the most famous numerical experiment in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-10 Gabriel M. Lando , Sergej Flach

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 (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

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, 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
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