Nonlinear Sciences – Pattern Formation and Solitons
Scientific paper
2006-04-28
Nonlinear Sciences
Pattern Formation and Solitons
4 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.025505
Nonlinear interaction between normal modes dramatically affects energy equipartition, heat conduction and other fundamental processes in extended systems. In their celebrated experiment Fermi, Pasta and Ulam (FPU, 1955) observed that in simple one-dimensional nonlinear atomic chains the energy must not always be equally shared among the modes. Recently, it was shown that exact and stable time-periodic orbits, coined $q$-breathers (QBs), localize the mode energy in normal mode space in an exponential way, and account for many aspects of the FPU problem. Here we take the problem into more physically important cases of two- and three-dimensional acoustic lattices to find existence and principally different features of QBs. By use of perturbation theory and numerical calculations we obtain that the localization and stability of QBs is enhanced with increasing system size in higher lattice dimensions opposite to their one-dimensional analogues.
Flach Sergej
Ivanchenko Mikhail V.
Kanakov O. I.
Mishagin K. G.
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