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We study thermalization in a one-dimensional quantum system consisting of a noninteracting fermionic chain with each site of the chain coupled to an additional bath site. Using a density matrix renormalization group algorithm we investigate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-14 N. Sedlmayr , J. Ren , F. Gebhard , J. Sirker

Using a non-perturbative functional renormalization group approach involving both fermionic and bosonic fields we calculate the interaction-induced change of the Fermi surface of spinless fermions moving on two chains connected by weak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Sascha Ledowski , Peter Kopietz

It is well established that the solitary waves of FPU-type chains converge in the high-energy limit to traveling waves of the hard-sphere model. In this paper we establish improved asymptotic expressions for the wave profiles as well as an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Michael Herrmann , Karsten Matthies

We investigate the emergence of stable subspaces in the low-temperature quantum thermal dynamics of finite spin chains. Our analysis reveals the existence of effective decoherence-free qudit subspaces, persisting for timescales exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Michael J. Kastoryano , Lasse B. Kristensen , Chi-Fang Chen , András Gilyén

Extensive dynamical simulations are used to explore the possible existence of sudden sufficiently large energy or rogue fluctuations (RF) at late times and across short time windows in the {\it strongly nonlinear regime} of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-12 Rahul Kashyap , Surajit Sen

The buckling of thin elastic sheets is a classic mechanical instability that occurs over a wide range of scales. In the extreme limit of atomically thin membranes like graphene, thermal fluctuations can dramatically modify such mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-13 Suraj Shankar , David R. Nelson

Recently, a new general wave phenomenon, namely "the anti-localization of non-stationary linear waves", has been introduced and discussed (Shishkina et al., J. Sound. Vib. 553, 2023, 117673). This is zeroing of the propagating component for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-09 Serge N. Gavrilov , Ekaterina V. Shishkina , Bogdan S. Borisenkov

We consider a version of the classical Hamiltonian FPU (Fermi-Pasta-Ulam) problem with nonlinear force-strain relation in which a hardening response is taken over by a softening regime above a critical strain value. We show that in addition…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-25 Anna Vainchtein , Lev Truskinovsky

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 analytical and numerical studies of phase-coherent dynamics of intrinsically localized excitations (breathers) in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear oscillator chains. We show that there are two qualitatively different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuriy A. Kosevich , Leonid I. Manevitch , Alexander V. Savin

A parametrized spin model was recently introduced and intended for one-dimensional ferromagnets with a deformable Zeeman energy. This model is revisited and given more realistic interpretation in terms of a model for ferromagnetic systems…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain M. Dikande , J. P. Nguenang

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

Breather stability and longevity in thermally relaxing nonlinear arrays depend sensitively on their interactions with other excitations. We review the relaxation of breathers in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam arrays, with a specific focus on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ramon Reigada , Antonio Sarmiento , Katja Lindenberg

An enhancement of localized nonlinear modes in coupled systems gives rise to a novel type of escape process. We study a spatially one dimensional set-up consisting of a linearly coupled oscillator chain of $N$ mass-points situated in a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-06-05 Torsten Gross , Dirk Hennig , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) paradox was observed fifty years ago. The surprising finding was a localization of energy in the reciprocal q-space of a model with discrete translational invariance, despite the presence of interaction between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Flach , A. Gorbach

Thermalization in nonlinear systems is a central concept in statistical mechanics and has been extensively studied theoretically since the seminal work of Fermi, Pasta and Ulam (FPU). Using molecular dynamics and continuum modeling of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Daniel Midtvedt , Zenan Qi , Alexander Croy , Harold S. Park , Andreas Isacsson

An analytical model based on variational principles for a thin-walled stiffened plate subjected to axial compression is presented. A system of nonlinear differential and integral equations is derived and solved using numerical continuation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-10 M. Ahmer Wadee , Maryam Farsi

Nonlinearity shapes lattice dynamics affecting vibrational spectrum, transport and thermalization phenomena. Beside breathers and solitons one finds the third fundamental class of nonlinear modes -- $q$-breathers -- periodic orbits in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 M. V. Ivanchenko

By solving the exact master equation of open quantum systems, we formulate the quantum thermodynamics from weak to strong couplings. The open quantum systems exchange matters, energies and information with their reservoirs through quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model, which was proposed 50 years ago to examine thermalization in non-metallic solids and develop ``experimental'' techniques for studying nonlinear problems, continues to yield a wealth of results in the theory…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Mason A. Porter , R. Carretero-González , P. G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed