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Chaos. 2003 Jun;13(2):646-56. doi: 10.1063/1.1537090.

Breathers and thermal relaxation in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam arrays.

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)

Ramon Reigada, Antonio Sarmiento, Katja Lindenberg

Affiliations

  1. Departament de Quimica Fisica, Universitat de Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 12777129 DOI: 10.1063/1.1537090

Abstract

Breather stability and longevity in thermally relaxing nonlinear arrays depend sensitively on their interactions with other excitations. We review numerical results for the relaxation of breathers in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam arrays, with a specific focus on the different relaxation channels and their dependence on the interparticle interactions, dimensionality, initial condition, and system parameters.

(c) 2003 American Institute of Physics.

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