Numerical computation of travelling breathers in Klein-Gordon chains
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We numerically study the existence of travelling breathers in KleinGordon chains, which consist of one-dimensional networks of nonlinear oscillators in an anharmonic on-site potential, linearly coupled to their nearest neighbors. Travelling breathers are spatially localized solutions having the property of being exactly translated by p sites along the chain after a fixed propagation time T (these solutions generalize the concept of solitary waves for which p = 1). In the case of even on-site potentials, the existence of small amplitude travelling breathers superposed on a small oscillatory tail has been proved recently (G. James and Y. Sire, to appear in Comm. Math. Phys., 2004), the tail being exponentially small with respect to the central oscillation size. In this paper we compute these solutions numerically and continue them into the large amplitude regime for different types of even potentials. We find that Klein-Gordon chains can support highly localized travelling breather solutions superposed on an oscillatory tail. We provide examples where the tail can be made very small and is difficult to detect at the scale of central oscillations. In addition we numerically observe the existence of these solutions in the case of non even potentials.
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