Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2003-03-21
Europhys. Lett., v.66, 21 (2004).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Europhysics Letters (in print)
Scientific paper
10.1209/epl/i2003-10156-5
The sharp pulse method is applied to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) and Lennard-Jones (LJ) anharmonic lattices. Numerical simulations reveal the presence of high energy strongly localized ``discrete'' kink-solitons (DK), which move with supersonic velocities that are proportional to kink amplitudes. For small amplitudes, the DK's of the FPU lattice reduce to the well-known ``continuous'' kink-soliton solutions of the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. For high amplitudes, we obtain a consistent description of these DK's in terms of approximate solutions of the lattice equations that are obtained by restricting to a bounded support in space exact solutions with sinusoidal pattern characterized by the ``magic'' wavenumber $k=2\pi/3$. Relative displacement patterns, velocity versus amplitude, dispersion relation and exponential tails found in numerical simulations are shown to agree very well with analytical predictions, for both FPU and LJ lattices.
Khomeriki Ramaz
Kosevich Yuriy A.
Ruffo Stefano
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