Thermal lifetime of breathers
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| author | Archilla, Juan F. R. Bajārs, Jānis Flach, Sergej |
| author_facet | Archilla, Juan F. R. Bajārs, Jānis Flach, Sergej |
| contents | In this article, we explore the lifetime of localized excitations in nonlinear lattices, called breathers, when a thermalized lattice is perturbed with localized energy delivered to a single site. We develop a method to measure the time it takes for the system to approach equilibrium based on a single scalar quantity, the participation number, and deduce the value corresponding to thermal equilibrium. We observe the time to achieve thermalization as a function of the energy of the excited site. We explore a variety of different physical system models. The result is that the lifetime of breathers increases exponentially with the breather energy for all the systems. This increase becomes observable when this energy is larger than approximately ten times the local average thermal energy. These results may provide a method to detect the existence of breathers in real systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermal lifetime of breathers Archilla, Juan F. R. Bajārs, Jānis Flach, Sergej Statistical Mechanics Pattern Formation and Solitons In this article, we explore the lifetime of localized excitations in nonlinear lattices, called breathers, when a thermalized lattice is perturbed with localized energy delivered to a single site. We develop a method to measure the time it takes for the system to approach equilibrium based on a single scalar quantity, the participation number, and deduce the value corresponding to thermal equilibrium. We observe the time to achieve thermalization as a function of the energy of the excited site. We explore a variety of different physical system models. The result is that the lifetime of breathers increases exponentially with the breather energy for all the systems. This increase becomes observable when this energy is larger than approximately ten times the local average thermal energy. These results may provide a method to detect the existence of breathers in real systems. |
| title | Thermal lifetime of breathers |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Pattern Formation and Solitons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06044 |