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We prove the existence of time-periodic solutions and spatially localised solutions (breathers), in general nonlinear Klein-Gordon infinite lattices. The existence problem is converted into a fixed point problem for an operator on some…

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In the present work, we examine a prototypical model for the formation of bright breathers in nonlinear left-handed metamaterial lattices. Utilizing the paradigm of nonlinear transmission lines, we build a relevant lattice and develop a…

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Intrinsic localized modes, also called discrete breathers, can exist under certain conditions in one-dimensional nonlinear electrical lattices driven by external harmonic excitations. In this work, we have studied experimentally the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-06-12 F. Palmero , J. Cuevas-Maraver , L. Q. English , R. Chacón

We study the formation of breathers in multi-dimensional lattices with long-range interactions. By variational methods, the exact relationship between various parameters (dimension, nonlinearity, nonlocal parameter $\alpha$) that defines…

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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…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Flach , K. Kladko , R. S. MacKay

We discuss the existence of breathers and lower bounds on their power, in nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices with nonlinear hopping. Our methods extend from a simple variational approach to fixed point arguments, deriving lower bounds for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 N. I. Karachalios , B. Sánchez-Rey , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. Cuevas

We consider time-periodic nonlinear localized excitations (NLEs) on one-dimensional translationally invariant Hamiltonian lattices with arbitrary finite interaction range and arbitrary finite number of degrees of freedom per unit cell. We…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Flach

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

The existence of breather type solutions, i.e., periodic in time, exponentially localized in space solutions, is a very unusual feature for continuum, nonlinear wave type equations. Following an earlier work [Comm. Math. Phys. {\bf 302},…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-16 Martina Chirilus-Bruckner , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

In this paper, the authors propose a numerical method to compute the solution of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion problem in the case of HS-regime. The initial condition is a nonnegative function with compact support. The problem is split in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Marie-Noëlle Le Roux

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

We prove the existence of a class of time-localized and space-periodic breathers (called q-gap breathers) in nonlinear lattices with time-periodic coefficients. These q-gap breathers are the counterparts to the classical space-localized and…

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We analyze the origin and features of localized excitations in a discrete two-dimensional Hamiltonian lattice. The lattice obeys discrete translational symmetry, and the localized excitations exist because of the presence of nonlinearities.…

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Discrete breathers (nonlinear localised modes) have been shown to exist in various nonlinear Hamiltonian lattice systems. In the present paper we study the dynamics of classical spins interacting via Heisenberg exchange on spatial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Zolotaryuk , S. Flach , V. Fleurov

Using similarity transformations we construct explicit solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with linear and nonlinear periodic potentials. We present explicit forms of spatially localized and periodic solutions, and study their…

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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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-10-25 Natalya Kovaleva , Leonid Manevitch

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

We study a discrete two-dimensional nonlinear system that allows for discrete breather solutions. We perform a spectral analysis of the lattice dynamics at thermal equilibrium and use a cooling technique to measure the amount of breathers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maria Eleftheriou , Sergej Flach

Quantum breathers are studied numerically in several electron-phonon coupled finite chain systems, in which the coupling results in intrinsic nonlinearity but with varying degrees of nonadiabaticity. As for quantum nonlinear lattice…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Z. Wang , A. R. Bishop , J. T. Gammel , R. N. Silver