Existence and non-existence of breather solutions in damped and driven nonlinear lattices

We investigate the existence of spatially localised solutions, in the form of discrete breathers, in general damped and driven nonlinear lattice systems of coupled oscillators. Conditions for the exponential decay of the difference between the maximal and minimal amplitudes of the oscillators are pr...

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Main Author: D. Hennig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2013-10-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4827056