Mechanisms for transient localization in a diatomic nonlinear chain

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2021.105913zbMATH Open1476.82007arXiv2106.03405OpenAlexW3170641599MaRDI QIDQ2045954FDOQ2045954

Authors: S. Lepri, Francesco Piazza 

Publication date: 16 August 2021

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate transient nonlinear localization, namely the self-excitation of energy bursts in an atomic lattice at finite temperature. As a basic model we consider the diatomic Lennard-Jones chain. Numerical simulations suggest that the effect originates from two different mechanisms. One is the thermal excitation of genuine discrete breathers with frequency in the phonon gap. The second is an effect of nonlinear coupling of fast, lighter particles with slow vibrations of the heavier ones. The quadratic term of the force generate an effective potential that can lead to transient grow of local energy on time scales the can be relatively long for small mass ratios. This heuristics is supported by a multiple-scale approximation based on the natural time-scale separation. For illustration, we consider a simplified single-particle model that allows for some insight of the localization dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03405

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zbMATH Keywords

discrete breathersdiatomic chainnonlinear localization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for wavelets (65T60) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40) Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Atomic physics (81V45) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

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