Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger trimer: oscillatory instabilities, quasiperiodic solutions and a 'new' type of self-trapping transition

Details Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger trimer: oscillatory instabilities, quasiperiodic solutions and a 'new' type of self-trapping transition Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger trimer: oscillatory instabilities, quasiperiodic solutions and a 'new' type of self-trapping transition

2003-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0307057v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37, 2201-2222 (2004)

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

25 pages, 11 figures, to be published in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. Revised and shortened version with few clarifying remarks adde

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/37/6/017

Oscillatory instabilities in Hamiltonian anharmonic lattices are known to appear through Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations of certain time-periodic solutions of multibreather type. Here, we analyze the basic mechanisms for this scenario by considering the simplest possible model system of this kind where they appear: the three-site discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger model with periodic boundary conditions. The stationary solution having equal amplitude and opposite phases on two sites and zero amplitude on the third is known to be unstable for an interval of intermediate amplitudes. We numerically analyze the nature of the two bifurcations leading to this instability and find them to be of two different types. Close to the lower-amplitude threshold stable two-frequency quasiperiodic solutions exist surrounding the unstable stationary solution, and the dynamics remains trapped around the latter so that in particular the amplitude of the originally unexcited site remains small. By contrast, close to the higher-amplitude threshold all two-frequency quasiperiodic solutions are detached from the unstable stationary solution, and the resulting dynamics is of 'population-inversion' type involving also the originally unexcited site.

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