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Title: Dynamical properties of discrete breathers in curved chains with first and second neighbor interaction
Author: Ibañes Miguez, Marta
Sancho, José M.
Tsironis, G. P.
Keywords: Dinàmica reticular
Física mèdica
Biofísica
Lattice dynamics
Medical physics
Biophysics
Issue Date: 2002
Publisher: The American Physical Society
Abstract: We present the study of discrete breather dynamics in curved polymerlike chains consisting of masses connected via nonlinear springs. The polymer chains are one dimensional but not rectilinear and their motion takes place on a plane. After constructing breathers following numerically accurate procedures, we launch them in the chains and investigate properties of their propagation dynamics. We find that breather motion is strongly affected by the presence of curved regions of polymers, while the breathers themselves show a very strong resilience and remarkable stability in the presence of geometrical changes. For chains with strong angular rigidity we find that breathers either pass through bent regions or get reflected while retaining their frequency. Their motion is practically lossless and seems to be determined through local energy conservation. For less rigid chains modeled via second neighbor interactions, we find similarly that chain geometry typically does not destroy the localized breather states but, contrary to the angularly rigid chains, it induces some small but constant energy loss. Furthermore, we find that a curved segment acts as an active gate reflecting or refracting the incident breather and transforming its velocity to a value that depends on the discrete breathers frequency. We analyze the physical reasoning behind these seemingly general breather properties.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.65.041902
It is part of: Physical Review E, 2002, vol. 65, p. 041902(1)-041902(13)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/18703
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.65.041902
ISSN: 1539-3755
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