Asymptotic analysis of combined breather–kink modes in a Fermi–Pasta–Ulam chain
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- 作者：Imran A. Butt ; Jonathan A.D. Wattis
- 关键词：Breathers ; Nonlinear waves ; Discrete systems
- 刊名：Physica D
- 出版年：2007
- 出版时间：15 July 2007
- 年：2007
- 卷：231
- 期：2
- 页码：165-179
- 全文大小：1497 K
文摘
We find approximations to travelling breather solutions of the one-dimensional Fermi–Pasta–Ulam (FPU) lattice. Both bright breather and dark breather solutions are found. We find that the existence of localised (bright) solutions depends upon the coefficients of cubic and quartic terms of the potential energy, generalising an earlier inequality derived by James [G. James, Existence of breathers on FPU lattices, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 332 (2001) 581–586]. We use the method of multiple scales to reduce the equations of motion for the lattice to a nonlinear Schrödinger equation at leading order and hence construct an asymptotic form for the breather. We show that in the absence of a cubic potential energy term, the lattice supports combined breathing-kink waveforms. The amplitude of breathing-kinks can be arbitrarily small, as opposed to the case for traditional monotone kinks, which have a nonzero minimum amplitude in such systems. We also present numerical simulations of the lattice, verifying the shape and velocity of the travelling waveforms, and confirming the long-lived nature of all such modes.