Double-Period Breathers in a Driven-Damped Lattice
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Spatially localized and temporally oscillating solutions, known as discrete breathers, have been experimentally and theoretically discovered in many physical systems. Here, we consider a lattice of coupled damped and driven Helmholtz-Duffing oscillators in which we found a spatial coexistence of oscillating solutions with different frequencies. Specifically, we demonstrate that stable period-doubled solutions coexist with solutions oscillating at the frequency of the driving force. Such solutions represent period-doubled breathers resulting from a stability overlap between subharmonic and harmonic solutions and exist up to a certain strength of the lattice coupling. Our findings suggest that this phenomenon can occur in any driven lattice where the nonlinearity admits bistability (or multi-stability) of subharmonic and harmonic solutions.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- LDRD
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1776754
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1485193
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--18-31028
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review E, Journal Name: Physical Review E Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 98; ISSN 2470-0045
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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