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Dynamics of a curved Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain: effects of geometry, long-range interaction, and nonlinear dispersion
Ranja Sarkar1, Bishwajyoti Dey
1Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune-411007, India.
Abstract:
We study the dynamics of the bent Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) chain, incorporating the complicated effects of geometry, long-range interactions, as well as nonlinear dispersion. Within the rotating wave approximation, we obtain several exact discrete breather (DB) solutions, such as the odd-parity and even-parity discrete breathers, compactlike discrete breathers and moving discrete breathers for various geometries of the chain. In presence of long-range nonlinear dispersive interactions, we show that DBs exist in the discrete curved lattice for next-nearest-neighbor interactions as well. For all neighbors interactions, we treat the problem in the long-wavelength (continuum) and weakly nonlinear limit of the system and obtain exact static breather solutions and large-amplitude, traveling kink-soliton solutions. The curved FPU chain also admits finite amplitude discrete nonlinear sinusoidal wave solutions with short commensurate as well as incommensurate wavelengths. The usefulness of these solutions for energy localization and transport in various physical systems are discussed.
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