Energy thresholds for discrete breathers

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2003-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0304058v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 104301 (2004)

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.104301

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 their experimental detection, are their energy properties. We considerably enlarge the scenario of possible energy properties presented by Flach, Kladko, and MacKay [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1207 (1997)]. Breather energies have a positive lower bound if the lattice dimension is greater than or equal to a certain critical value d_c. We show that d_c can generically be greater than two for a large class of Hamiltonian systems. Furthermore, examples are provided for systems where discrete breathers exist but do not emerge from the bifurcation of a band edge plane wave. Some of these systems support breathers of arbitrarily low energy in any spatial dimension.

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