q-breathers in Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger lattices

Details q-breathers in Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger lattices q-breathers in Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger lattices

2008-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1055v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

19 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/10/7/073034

$q$-breathers are exact time-periodic solutions of extended nonlinear systems continued from the normal modes of the corresponding linearized system. They are localized in the space of normal modes. The existence of these solutions in a weakly anharmonic atomic chain explained essential features of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) paradox. We study $q$-breathers in one- two- and three-dimensional discrete nonlinear Sch\"{o}dinger (DNLS) lattices -- theoretical playgrounds for light propagation in nonlinear optical waveguide networks, and the dynamics of cold atoms in optical lattices. We prove the existence of these solutions for weak nonlinearity. We find that the localization of $q$-breathers is controlled by a single parameter which depends on the norm density, nonlinearity strength and seed wave vector. At a critical value of that parameter $q$-breathers delocalize via resonances, signaling a breakdown of the normal mode picture and a transition into strong mode-mode interaction regime. In particular this breakdown takes place at one of the edges of the normal mode spectrum, and in a singular way also in the center of that spectrum. A stability analysis of $q$-breathers supplements these findings. For three-dimensional lattices, we find $q$-breather vortices, which violate time reversal symmetry and generate a vortex ring flow of energy in normal mode space.

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