Breathers in oscillator chains with Hertzian interactions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2013.01.017zbMATH Open1278.37053arXiv1111.1857OpenAlexW1984972737MaRDI QIDQ387338FDOQ387338

Authors: Guillaume James, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, J. Cuevas 

Publication date: 23 December 2013

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

Abstract: We prove nonexistence of breathers (spatially localized and time-periodic oscillations) for a class of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices representing an uncompressed chain of beads interacting via Hertz's contact forces. We then consider the setting in which an additional on-site potential is present, motivated by the Newton's cradle under the effect of gravity. Using both direct numerical computations and a simplified asymptotic model of the oscillator chain, the so-called discrete p-Schr"odinger (DpS) equation, we show the existence of discrete breathers and study their spectral properties and mobility. Due to the fully nonlinear character of Hertzian interactions, breathers are found to be much more localized than in classical nonlinear lattices and their motion occurs with less dispersion. In addition, we study numerically the excitation of a traveling breather after an impact at one end of a semi-infinite chain. This case is well described by the DpS equation when local oscillations are faster than binary collisions, a situation occuring e.g. in chains of stiff cantilevers decorated by spherical beads. When a hard anharmonic part is added to the local potential, a new type of traveling breather emerges, showing spontaneous direction-reversing in a spatially homogeneous system. Finally, the interaction of a moving breather with a point defect is also considered in the cradle system. Almost total breather reflections are observed at sufficiently high defect sizes, suggesting potential applications of such systems as shock wave reflectors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1857

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zbMATH Keywords

direction-reversing wavediscrete breatherHamiltonian latticeHertzian contactsurface modediscrete \(p\)-Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60)

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