Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1992-12-07
Physics
Condensed Matter
12 pages, REVTeX, 3 Figures (e-mail requests to A. Sanchez, anxo@ing.uc3m.es)
Scientific paper
It is shown that there are two different regimes for the damped sine-Gordon chain driven by the spatio-temporal periodic force $\Gamma sin(\omega t - k_{n} x)$ with a flat initial condition. For $\Gamma_{c}(n)$ to a translating {\em 2-breather} excitation from a state locked to the driver. For $\omega < k_{n}$, the excitations of the system are the locked states with the phase velocity $\omega/k_{n}$ in all the region of $\Gamma$ studied. In the first regime, the frequency of the breathers is controlled by $\omega$, and the velocity of the breathers, controlled by $k_{n}$, is shown to be the group velocity determined from the linear dispersion relation for the sine-Gordon equation. A linear stability analysis reveals that, in addition to two competing length-scales, namely, the width of the breathers and the spatial period of the driving, there is one more length-scale which plays an important role in controlling the dynamics of the system at small driving. In the second regime the length-scale $k_{n}$ controls the excitation. The above picture is further corroborated by numerical nonlinear spectral analysis. An energy balance estimate is also presented and shown to predict the critical value of $\Gamma$ in good agreement with the numerics.
Bishop Alan R.
Cai David
Sanchez Angel
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