q-Breathers and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

Details q-Breathers and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem q-Breathers and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

2005-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0504036v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.064102

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) paradox consists of the nonequipartition of energy among normal modes of a weakly anharmonic atomic chain model. In the harmonic limit each normal mode corresponds to a periodic orbit in phase space and is characterized by its wave number $q$. We continue normal modes from the harmonic limit into the FPU parameter regime and obtain persistence of these periodic orbits, termed here $q$-Breathers (QB). They are characterized by time periodicity, exponential localization in the $q$-space of normal modes and linear stability up to a size-dependent threshold amplitude. Trajectories computed in the original FPU setting are perturbations around these exact QB solutions. The QB concept is applicable to other nonlinear lattices as well.

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