Dynamical barrier for the formation of solitary waves in discrete lattices

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2007.11.029MaRDI QIDQ637271zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, J. Adrián Espínola-Rocha, Yannis Drossinos, Atanas Stefanov

Publication date 2 September 2011

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1895

zbMATH Keywords

excitation of localized modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Abstract: We consider the problem of the existence of a dynamical barrier of ``mass that needs to be excited on a lattice site to lead to the formation and subsequent persistence of localized modes for a nonlinear Schrodinger lattice. We contrast the existence of a dynamical barrier with its absence in the static theory of localized modes in one spatial dimension. We suggest an energetic criterion that provides a sufficient, but not necessary, condition on the amplitude of a single-site initial condition required to form a solitary wave. We show that this effect is not one-dimensional by considering its two-dimensional analog. The existence of a sufficient condition for the excitation of localized modes in the non-integrable, discrete, nonlinear Schrodinger equation is compared to the dynamics of excitations in the integrable, both discrete and continuum, version of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation.

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