Bifurcations of discrete breathers in a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain

Details Bifurcations of discrete breathers in a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain Bifurcations of discrete breathers in a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain

2006-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0606049v2

Nonlinearity 20, 631-657 (2007)

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

30 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0951-7715/20/3/005

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. Such solutions are investigated for a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain, i. e., a chain of alternate heavy and light masses coupled by anharmonic forces. For hard interaction potentials, discrete breathers in this model are known to exist either as ``optic breathers'' with frequencies above the optic band, or as ``acoustic breathers'' with frequencies in the gap between the acoustic and the optic band. In this paper, bifurcations between different types of discrete breathers are found numerically, with the mass ratio m and the breather frequency omega as bifurcation parameters. We identify a period tripling bifurcation around optic breathers, which leads to new breather solutions with frequencies in the gap, and a second local bifurcation around acoustic breathers. These results provide new breather solutions of the FPU system which interpolate between the classical acoustic and optic modes. The two bifurcation lines originate from a particular ``corner'' in parameter space (omega,m). As parameters lie near this corner, we prove by means of a center manifold reduction that small amplitude solutions can be described by a four-dimensional reversible map. This allows us to derive formally a continuum limit differential equation which characterizes at leading order the numerically observed bifurcations.

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