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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. Such solutions are investigated for a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain, i.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume James , Michael Kastner

Discrete breathers, or intrinsic localized modes, are spatially localized, time--periodic, nonlinear excitations that can exist and propagate in systems of coupled dynamical units. Recently, some experiments show the sighting of a form of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. R. Romero , J. F. R. Archilla , F. Palmero , B. Sanchez-Rey , A. Alvarez , J. Cuevas , J. M. Romero

In this communication, we examine a nonlinear model with an impurity emulating a bend. We justify the geometric interpretation of the model and connect it with earlier work on models including geometric effects. We focus on both the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-25 J. Cuevas , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider a chain of torsionally-coupled, planar pendula shaken horizontally by an external sinusoidal driver. It has been known that in such a system, theoretically modeled by the discrete sine-Gordon equation, intrinsic localized modes,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-20 F. Palmero , J. Han , L. Q. English , T. J. Alexander , P. G. Kevrekidis

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 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 study the properties of moving breathers in a bent DNA-related model with short range interaction, due to the stacking of the base pairs, and long range interaction, due to the finite dipole moment of the bonds within each base pair. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Cuevas , F. Palmero , J. F. R. Archilla , F. R. Romero

In the present work, we develop a systematic examination of the existence, stability and dynamical properties of a discrete breather at the interface between a diatomic and a monoatomic granular chain. We remarkably find that such an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-12-14 C. Hoogeboom , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study experimentally and numerically the existence and stability properties of discrete breathers in a periodic nonlinear electric line. The electric line is composed of single cell nodes, containing a varactor diode and an inductor,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-22 F. Palmero , L. Q. English , J. Cuevas , R. Carretero-González , P. G. Kevrekidis

Physico-mechanical properties of polymers in solid state, in particular conditions of their structural transformations, are substantially defined by existence and mobility of elementary nonlinear excitations. The localized oscillatory…

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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

We prove nonexistence of breathers (spatially localized and time-periodic oscillations) for a class of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices representing an uncompressed chain of beads interacting via Hertz's contact forces. We then consider the…

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We study anharmonic localization in a periodic five atom chain with quadratic-quartic spring potential. We use discrete symmetries to eliminate the degeneracies of the harmonic chain and easily find periodic orbits. We apply linear…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Paul A. Houle

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…

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We study the dynamics of the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattice initialized such that a very long transitory period of time in which standard Boltzmann statistics is insufficient is reached. Our study of the nonlinear system locked…

patt-sol · Physics 2015-06-26 K. Ø. Rasmussen , S. Aubry , A. R. Bishop , G. P. Tsironis

We study the structure and stability of discrete breathers (both pinned and mobile) in two-dimensional nonlinear anisotropic Schrodinger lattices. Starting from a set of identical one-dimensional systems we develop the continuation of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Gomez-Gardenes , L. M. Floria , A. R. Bishop

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of crystalline poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) have been carried out in order to study its vibrational properties. The vibrational density of states has been calculated using a normal mode analysis (NMA) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Krishnan , S. Balasubramanian

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

Artificial intelligence in the form of deep learning is now very popular and directly implemented in many areas of science and technology. In the present work we study time evolution of Discrete Breathers in one-dimensional nonlinear chains…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-07 T. Dogkas , M. Eleftheriou , G. D. Barmparis , G. P. Tsironis