Ground waves in atomic chains with bi-monomial double-well potential

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2012.07.013MaRDI QIDQ715676zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Herrmann

Publication date 31 October 2012

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6595

zbMATH Keywords

double-well potentialFPU chainground wavesNehari manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30) Nonlinear waves in solid mechanics (74J30)

Abstract: Ground waves in atomic chains are traveling waves that corresponds to minimal non-trivial critical values of the underlying action functional. In this paper we study FPU-type chains with bi-monomial double-well potential and prove the existence of both periodic and solitary ground waves. To this end we minimize the action on the Nehari manifold and show that periodic ground waves converge to solitary ones. Finally, we compute ground waves numerically by a suitable discretization of a constrained gradient flow.

Review text

The author proves existence of periodic ground waves to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices with double-well potentials generated by potentials that are a difference of monomials. The main result states the existence for any prescribed speed and any periodic domain size or the real line. Moreover, the solitary waves on the unbounded domain are suitably approximated by periodic ones. This generalizes previous results by A. Pankov and uses different methods. The proof is based on a variational formulation and also reveals that these waves are saddle points, supersonic, smooth, and non-constant for sufficiently large domains. Moreover, a numerical scheme with sample computations is given.

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