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arxiv: nlin/0203026 · v1 · submitted 2002-03-13 · 🌊 nlin.PS

Moving discrete breathers in a Klein--Gordon chain with an impurity

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We analyze the influence of an impurity in the movement of discrete breathers in Klein--Gordon chains. We observe that the moving breather can cross the impurity, can be reflected by it, or can be trapped originating a quasi-periodic breather. We find that resonance with a nonlinear localised mode centred in the impurity is a necessary condition in order to observe the trapping phenomenon, as a difference with the resonance condition with a linear localised mode when this problem is studied within the Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation approximation.

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