Title: Interaction of moving breathers with impurities
Speaker: J Cuevas (zipped pdf with movies,
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pdf proceedings 460 Kb).
With F Palmero, JFR Archilla and FR Romero.
Abstract:
We analyze the influence of an impurity in the evolution of moving discrete breathers in a Klein--Gordon chain with non-weak nonlinearity. Three different behaviours can be observed when moving breathers interact with the impurity: they pass through the impurity continuing their direction of movement; they are reflected by the impurity; they are trapped by the impurity, giving rise to chaotic breathers. Resonance with a breather centred at the impurity site is conjectured to be a necessary condition for the appearance of the trapping phenomenon.
Conference on Localization and energy transfer in Nonlinear Systems, El Escorial, Spain, June 17-21, 2002.
Talk by J Cuevas.