Solitary waves in diatomic chains

Anna Vainchtein, Yuli Starosvetsky, J. Douglas Wright, and Ron Perline
Phys. Rev. E 93, 042210 – Published 18 April 2016

Abstract

We consider the mechanism of formation of isolated localized wave structures in the diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model. Using a singular multiscale asymptotic analysis in the limit of high mass mismatch between the alternating elements, we obtain the typical slow-fast time scale separation and formulate the Fredholm orthogonality condition approximating a sequence of mass ratios supporting the formation of solitary waves in the general type of diatomic FPU models. This condition is made explicit in the case of a diatomic Toda lattice. Results of numerical integration of the full diatomic Toda lattice equations confirm the formation of these genuinely localized wave structures at special values of the mass ratio that are close to the analytical predictions when the ratio is sufficiently small.

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  • Received 6 January 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.042210

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  1. Physical Systems
Nonlinear Dynamics

Authors & Affiliations

Anna Vainchtein1,*, Yuli Starosvetsky2, J. Douglas Wright3, and Ron Perline3

  • 1Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
  • 2Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 3200, Israel
  • 3Department of Mathematics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  • *aav4@pitt.edu

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Vol. 93, Iss. 4 — April 2016

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