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In an extensive numerical investigation of nonintegrable translational motion of discrete breathers in nonlinear Schrodinger lattices, we have used a regularized Newton algorithm to continue these solutions from the limit of the integrable…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gomez-Gardenes , L. M. Floria , M. Peyrard , A. R. Bishop

We study the quantum dynamics in response to time-dependent external potentials of the edge modes of a small fractional quantum Hall fluid composed of few particles on a lattice in a bosonic Laughlin-like state at filling {\nu} = 1/2. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Alberto Nardin , Daniele De Bernardis , Rifat Onur Umucalilar , Leonardo Mazza , Matteo Rizzi , Iacopo Carusotto

We derive a Hamiltonian version of the ${\cal PT}$-symmetric discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation that describes synchronized dynamics of coupled pendula driven by a periodic movement of their common strings. In the limit of weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Alexander Chernyavsky , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

Spatially periodic modulation of the intersite coupling in two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear lattices modifies the eigenvalue spectrum by opening mini-gaps in it. This work aims to build stable localized modes in the new bandgaps. Numerical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Goran Gligorić , Aleksandra Maluckov , Ljupčo Hadžievski , Boris A. Malomed

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

On a two-dimensional planar parity-time-($\mathcal{PT}$-)symmetric nonlinear magnetic metamaterial, consisting of split-ring dimers with balanced gain and loss, discrete breather solutions can be found. We extend these studies and by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-25 Sascha Böhrkircher , Sebastian Erfort , Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner

We discuss the existence of breather solutions for a Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in an infinite $N$-dimensional lattice, involving site dependent anharmonic parameter. We give a simple proof on the existence of (nontrivial)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikos I. Karachalios

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

We study numerically synchronization phenomena of mobile discrete breathers in dissipative nonlinear lattices periodically forced. When varying the driving intensity, the breather velocity generically locks at rational multiples of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Zueco , P. J. Martinez , L. M. Floria , F. Falo

We review research on the role of nonlinear coherent phenomena (e.g breathers and kinks) in the formation linear decorations in mica crystal. The work is based on a new model for the motion of the mica hexagonal K layer, which allows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-08-04 J. Bajars , J. C. Eilbeck , B. Leimkuhler

We demonstrate the existence of a novel breather mode in the self-consistent electron dynamics of a semiconductor quantum well. A non-perturbative variational method based on quantum hydrodynamics is used to determine the salient features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 F. Haas , G. Manfredi , P. K. Shukla , P. -A. Hervieux

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

In the present paper, a theorem, which determines the linear stability of multibreathers in Klein-Gordon chains, is proven. Specifically, it is shown that for soft nonlinearities, and positive inter-site coupling, only structures with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vassilis Koukouloyannis , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We demonstrate that stabilization of solitons of the multidimensional Schrodinger equation with a cubic nonlinearity may be achieved by a suitable periodic control of the nonlinear term. The effect of this control is to stabilize the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaspar D. Montesinos , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Pedro Torres

We consider the long-time evolution of weakly perturbed discrete nonlinear Schroedinger breathers. While breather growth can occur through nonlinear interaction with one single initial linear mode, breather decay is found to require…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Magnus Johansson

Quantum states of a discrete breather are studied in two ways. One method involves numerical diagonalization of the Hamiltonian, the other uses the path integral to examine correlations in the eigenstates. In both cases only the central…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. S. Schulman , D. Tolkunov , E. Mihokova

Dynamical properties of two bosonic quantum walkers in a one-dimensional lattice are studied theoretically. Depending on the initial state, interactions, lattice tilting, and lattice disorder, whole plethora of different behaviors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-06 Dariusz Wiater , Tomasz Sowiński , Jakub Zakrzewski

In this paper, we construct an adiabatic invariant for a large 1--$d$ lattice of particles, which is the so called Klein Gordon lattice. The time evolution of such a quantity is bounded by a stretched exponential as the perturbation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Andrea Carati , Alberto Mario Maiocchi

We review recent studies about quantum discrete breathers. We describe their basic properties in comparison with their classical counterparts, and the ways they may be addressed theoretically in different quantum lattice models including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Ricardo A. Pinto , Sergej Flach

We consider the quantum dynamics of excitations in a system of two capacitively coupled Josephson junctions. Quantum breather states are found in the middle of the energy spectrum of the confined nonescaping states of the system. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Pinto , S. Flach