Discrete nonlinear Schrödinger approximation of a mixed Klein-Gordon/Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain: modulational instability and a statistical condition for creation of thermodynamic breathers

DOI10.1016/j.physd.2005.12.021zbMath1138.34320MaRDI QIDQ2492280

Magnus Johansson

Publication date: 9 June 2006

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2005.12.021

zbMATH Keywords

thermal equilibrium; modulational instability; anharmonic oscillator chain; breather formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q53: KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations)

35Q55: NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations)

34C15: Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations

82C20: Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics

82B20: Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

37K60: Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations

34B45: Boundary value problems on graphs and networks for ordinary differential equations

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