Travelling Breathers with Exponentially Small Tails in a Chain of Nonlinear Oscillators

We study the existence of travelling breathers in Klein-Gordon chains, which consist of one-dimensional networks of nonlinear oscillators in an anharmonic on-site potential, linearly coupled to their nearest neighbors. Travelling breathers are spatially localized solutions which appear time periodic in a referential in translation at constant velocity. Approximate solutions of this type have been constructed in the form of modulated plane waves, whose envelopes satisfy the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (M. Remoissenet, Phys. Rev. B 33, n.4, 2386 (1986), J. Giannoulis and A. Mielke, Nonlinearity 17, p. 551–565 (2004)). In the case of travelling waves (where the phase velocity of the plane wave equals the group velocity of the wave packet), the existence of nearby exact solutions has been proved by Iooss and Kirchgässner, who have obtained exact solitary wave solutions superposed on an exponentially small oscillatory tail (G. Iooss, K. Kirchgässner, Commun. Math. Phys. 211, 439–464 (2000)). However, a rigorous existence result has been lacking in the more general case when phase and group velocities are different. This situation is examined in the present paper, in a case when the breather period and the inverse of its velocity are commensurate. We show that the center manifold reduction method introduced by Iooss and Kirchgässner is still applicable when the problem is formulated in an appropriate way. This allows us to reduce the problem locally to a finite dimensional reversible system of ordinary differential equations, whose principal part admits homoclinic solutions to quasi-periodic orbits under general conditions on the potential. For an even potential, using the additional symmetry of the system, we obtain homoclinic orbits to small periodic ones for the full reduced system. For the oscillator chain, these orbits correspond to exact small amplitude travelling breather solutions superposed on an exponentially small oscillatory tail. Their principal part (excluding the tail) coincides at leading order with the nonlinear Schrödinger approximation.     

Asymptotic analysis of combined breather-kink modes in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain

We find approximations to travelling breather solutions of the one-dimensional Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattice. Both bright breather and dark breather solutions are found. We find that the existence of localised (bright) solutions depends upon the coefficients of cubic and quartic terms of the potential energy, generalising an earlier inequality derived by James [G. James, Existence of breathers on FPU lattices, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 332 (2001) 581-586]. We use the method of multiple scales to reduce the equations of motion for the lattice to a nonlinear Schrödinger equation at leading order and hence construct an asymptotic form for the breather. We show that in the absence of a cubic potential energy term, the lattice supports combined breathing-kink waveforms. The amplitude of breathing-kinks can be arbitrarily small, as opposed to the case for traditional monotone kinks, which have a nonzero minimum amplitude in such systems. We also present numerical simulations of the lattice, verifying the shape and velocity of the travelling waveforms, and confirming the long-lived nature of all such modes.     

General Higher-Order Breather and Hybrid Solutions of the Fokas System

Fokas system is the simplest (2+1)-dimensional extension of the nonlinear Schr?dinger (NLS) equation (Eq.(2), Inverse Problems 10 (1994) L19-L22).By appropriately limiting on soliton solutions generated by the Hirota bilinear method, the explicit forms of $n$-th breathers and semi-rational solutions for the Fokas system are derived. The obtained first-order breather exhibits arange of interesting dynamics. For high-order breather, it has more rich dynamical behaviors.The first-order and the second-order breather solutions are given graphically. Using the long wave limit in soliton solutions, rational solutions are obtained, which are used to analyze the mechanism of the rogue wave and lump respectively.By taking a long waves limit of a part of exponential functions in $f$ and $g$ appeared in the bilinear form of the Fokas system, many interesting hybrid solutions are constructed. The hybrid solutions illustrate various superposed wave structures involving rogue waves, lumps, solitons, and periodic line waves. Their rather complicated dynamics are revealed.     

Theory of periodic and solitary space charge waves in extrinsic semiconductors

We present a theory of the existence and stability of traveling periodic and solitary space charge wave solutions to a standard rate equation model of electrical conduction in extrinsic semiconductors which includes effects of field-dependent impurity impact ionization. A nondimensional set of equations is presented in which the small parameter β = (dielectric relaxation time) / (characteristic impurity time) 1 plays a crucial role for our singular perturbation analysis. For a narrow range of wave velocities a phase plane analysis gives a set of limit cycle orbits corresponding to periodic traveling waves. while for a unique value of wave velocity we find a homoclinic orbit corresponding to a moving solitary space charge wave of the type experimentally observed in p-type germanium. A linear stability analysis reveals all waves to be unstable under current bias on the infinite one-dimensional line. Finally, we conjecture that solitary waves may be stable in samples of finite length under voltage bias.     

Existence and Dynamics of Bounded Traveling Wave Solutions to Getmanou Equation

In this paper, we study the existence and dynamics of bounded traveling wave solutions to Getmanou equations by using the qualitative theory of differential equations and the bifurcation method of dynamical systems. We show that the corresponding traveling wave system is a singular planar dynamical system with two singular straight lines, and obtain the bifurcations of phase portraits of the system under different parameters conditions. Through phase portraits, we show the existence and dynamics of several types of bounded traveling wave solutions including solitary wave solutions, periodic wave solutions, compactons, kink-like and antikink-like wave solutions. Moreover, the expressions of solitary wave solutions are given. Additionally, we confirm abundant dynamical behaviors of the traveling wave s olutions to the equation, which are summarized as follows: i) We confirm that two types of orbits give rise to solitary wave solutions, that is, the homoclinic orbit passing the singular point, and the composed homoclinic orbit which is comprised of two heteroclinic orbits and tangent to the singular line at the singular point of associated system. ii) We confirm that two types of orbits correspond to periodic wave solutions, that is, the periodic orbit surrounding a center, and the homoclinic orbit of associated system, which is tangent to the singular line at the singular point of associated system.     

Nonlinear normal modes and quanta in the β Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice

We enumerate simple periodic orbits for the well-known Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem. Using these solutions as simple modes for the problem, we construct quantum solutions of the corresponding problem. These studies present a natural generalization of the concept of phonon in the nonlinear realm.     

Travelling Waves in a Chain¶of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators

In a chain of nonlinear oscillators, linearly coupled to their nearest neighbors, all travelling waves of small amplitude are found as solutions of finite dimensional reversible dynamical systems. The coupling constant and the inverse wave speed form the parameter space. The groundstate consists of a one-parameter family of periodic waves. It is realized in a certain parameter region containing all cases of light coupling. Beyond the border of this region the complexity of wave-forms increases via a succession of bifurcations. In this paper we give an appropriate formulation of this problem, prove the basic facts about the reduction to finite dimensions, show the existence of the ground states and discuss the first bifurcation by determining a normal form for the reduced system. Finally we show the existence of nanopterons, which are localized waves with a noncancelling periodic tail at infinity whose amplitude is exponentially small in the bifurcation parameter. Received: 10 September 1999 / Accepted: 15 December 1999     

Flexomagnetoelectric interaction in multiferroics

We present a theoretical analysis of phase separation in the presence of a spatially periodic forcing of wavenumber q traveling with a velocity v. By an analytical and numerical study of a suitably generalized 2d-Cahn-Hilliard model we find as a function of the forcing amplitude and the velocity three different regimes of phase separation. For a sufficiently large forcing amplitude a spatially periodic phase separation of the forcing wavenumber takes place, which is dragged by the forcing with some phase delay. These locked solutions are only stable in a subrange of their existence and beyond their existence range the solutions are dragged irregularly during the initial transient period and otherwise rather regular. In the range of unstable locked solutions a coarsening dynamics similar to the unforced case takes place. For small and large values of the forcing wavenumber analytical approximations of the nonlinear solutions as well as for the range of existence and stability have been derived.     

Formation mechanism of asymmetric breather and rogue waves in pair-transition-coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger equations

Based on the developed Darboux transformation, we investigate the exact asymmetric solutions of breather and rogue waves in pair-transition-coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger equations. As an example, some types of exact breather solutions are given analytically by adjusting the parameters. Moreover, the interesting fundamental problem is to clarify the formation mechanism of asymmetry breather solutions and how the particle number and energy exchange between the background and soliton ultimately form the breather solutions. Our results also show that the formation mechanism from breather to rogue wave arises from the transformation from the periodic total exchange into the temporal local property.     

Periodic solutions of symmetric Kepler perturbations and applications

We investigate the existence of several families of symmetric periodic solutions as continuation of circular orbits of the Kepler problem for certain symmetric differentiable perturbations using an appropriate set of Poincaré-Delaunay coordinates which are essential in our approach. More precisely, we try separately two situations in an independent way, namely, when the unperturbed part corresponds to a Kepler problem in inertial cartesian coordinates and when it corresponds to a Kepler problem in rotating coordinates on ?³. Moreover, the characteristic multipliers of the symmetric periodic solutions are characterized. The planar case arises as a particular case. Finally, we apply these results to study the existence and stability of periodic orbits of the Matese-Whitman Hamiltonian and the generalized Størmer model.     

关于非自治系统三类广义同步存在性的研究

研究了两个单向耦合的非自治系统三类广义同步的存在性.在响应系统的修正方程具有渐近稳定平衡点、渐近稳定周期轨道或渐近稳定拟周期轨道的情况下,满足一定的条件,可将广义同步化流形存在性问题转化为Lipschitz函数族的压缩不动点问题,并且理论证明了该广义同步化流形的指数吸引性.同时,以Duffing系统为例进行了数值仿真,其结果与理论推导相一致. 关键词： 广义同步化流形 压缩不动点 指数吸引性     

Dynamical behaviors of traveling wave solutions to a Fujimoto-Watanabe equation

We study dynamical behaviors of traveling wave solutions to a Fujimoto-Watanabe equation using the method of dynamical systems. We obtain all possible bifurcations of phase portraits of the system in different regions of the threedimensional parameter space. Then we show the required conditions to guarantee the existence of traveling wave solutions including solitary wave solutions, periodic wave solutions, kink-like(antikink-like) wave solutions, and compactons. Moreover, we present exact expressions and simulations of these traveling wave solutions. The dynamical behaviors of these new traveling wave solutions will greatly enrich the previews results and further help us understand the physical structures and analyze the propagation of nonlinear waves.     

旋转致密双星的引力波特征

研究了轨道和旋转效果到2.5阶后牛顿旋转致密双星拉格朗日动力学与引力波的关系, 分析了有序和混沌轨道的引力波特征.发现当加速度不考虑辐射项时, 有序双星系统辐射的引力波具有周期或拟周期的特征, 而混沌双星系统辐射的引力波却具有明显的混沌特征.当加速度含有辐射项贡献时, 双星必会出现并合现象.此时, 原保守有序双星系统需较长时间才能完成并合过程, 引力波形在双星并合前仍保留拟周期的基本特点;然而, 原保守混沌双星系统仅在较短时间内就会并合, 但因并合时间太短, 无法获取足够的动力学信息导致引力波形的特征不易分辨.     

Water waves as a spatial dynamical system; infinite depth case

We review the mathematical results on traveling waves in one or several superposed layers of potential flow, subject to gravity, with or without surface and interfacial tension, where the bottom layer is infinitely deep. The problem is formulated as a "spatial dynamical system," and it is shown that the linearized operator of the resulting reversible system has an essential spectrum filling the real line. We consider three cases where bifurcation occurs. (i) The first case is when, in moving a parameter, two pairs of imaginary eigenvalues merge into one pair of double eigenvalues, and then split into four symmetric complex conjugate eigenvalues. (ii) The second case is when one pair of imaginary eigenvalues meet in 0, and disappear; (iii) the third case is when the phenomenon described in (ii) is superposed to the presence of another pair of imaginary eigenvalues sitting at finite distance from 0. We give a physical example for each case and more specially study the solitary waves and generalized solitary waves, emphasizing the differences, in the methods and in the results, between these cases and the finite depth case.     

On the spectra of periodic waves for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems

We consider the problem of determining the spectrum for the linearization of an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system about a spatially periodic traveling wave. By using a Bloch-wave decomposition, we recast the problem as determining the point spectra for a family of operators J_γL_γ, where J_γ is skew-symmetric with bounded inverse and L_γ is symmetric with compact inverse. Our main result relates the number of unstable eigenvalues of the operator J_γL_γ to the number of negative eigenvalues of the symmetric operator L_γ. The compactness of the resolvent operators allows us to greatly simplify the proofs, as compared to those where similar results are obtained for linearizations about localized waves. The theoretical results are general, and apply to a larger class of problems than those considered herein. The theory is applied to a study of the spectra associated with periodic and quasi-periodic solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, as well as periodic solutions to the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation with power nonlinearity.     

Energy localization and transport in two-dimensional Fermi–Pasta–Ulam lattices

We investigate energy localization and transport in the form of discrete breathers and their movability in two-dimensional Fermi–Pasta–Ulam(FPU) lattices. We study the dynamics of the two-dimensional Fermi–Pasta–Ulam(FPU) lattice, incorporating the complicated effects of geometry, long-range interactions as well as nonlinear dispersion. We obtain several exact discrete breather(DB) solutions, such as the odd-parity and even-parity DBs, compact-like DBs and moving DBs for various geometries of the two-dimensional FPU chain. We show that DBs also exist in the same lattice in presence of next-nearest neighbour interaction. Large-amplitude exact subsonic travelling kink-soliton solutions are obtained in such a periodic chain in presence of long-range nonlinear dispersive interaction in the long-wavelength and weakly nonlinear limit. Such a two-dimensional FPU lattice admits finite amplitude nonlinear sinusoidal wave (NSW) solutions with short commensurate as well as incommensurate wavelengths for different geometries of the chain. The usefulness of these solutions for energy localization and transport in various physical systems are discussed.     

q-Breathers and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem

The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) paradox consists of the non-equipartition of energy among normal modes of a weakly anharmonic atomic chain model. In the harmonic limit each normal mode corresponds to a periodic orbit in phase space and is characterized by its wave number q. We continue normal modes from the harmonic limit into the FPU parameter regime and obtain persistence of these periodic orbits, termed here q-breathers (QB). They are characterized by time periodicity, exponential localization in the q-space of normal modes and linear stability up to a size-dependent threshold amplitude. Trajectories computed in the original FPU setting are perturbations around these exact QB solutions. The QB concept is applicable to other nonlinear lattices as well.     

On symmetric breather collisions in lattices with saturable nonlinearity

Symmetric collisions of two discrete breathers in the lattice with saturable nonlinearity are investigated. The strong correlation of the collision properties and the parameters of colliding breathers (power, velocity, and phase difference), lattice parameters and position of the collision point is found. This is related to the internal structure of the colliding breathers and energy exchange with the phonon background. The type of collision changes from elastic to the inelastic (the breathers merging, multi-bounce interactions, breather creation etc.) with the increasing of the colliding breather power. Collision of high power breathers always results in the breather fusion. The elastic and inelastic collisions are related to the periodic and quasi-periodic colliding breathers, respectively.     

Plastic-strain-softening waves in crystals

A system of equations describing the process of plastic deformation in a crystal is used to investigate self-sustained traveling structures theoretically. The equations for the velocity and density of dislocations are shown to describe two types of instability which are associated with anomalous damping of dislocations and structural disordering, respectively. Specific models are proposed for these two cases and investigated theoretically. Wavelike solutions, such as traveling fronts, solitons, and periodic waves, are found to exist.