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DY: Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 46: Poster

DY 46.21: Poster

Thursday, March 27, 2003, 15:30–18:00, P1

Wave scattering by discrete breathers — •Andrey Miroshnichenko and Sergej Flach — MPIPKS, Noetnitzer str. 38, D-01187, Dresden

We present a theoretical study of linear wave scattering in one-dimensional nonlinear lattices by intrinsic spatially localized dynamic excitations or discrete breathers. These states appear in various nonlinear systems and present a time-periodic localized scattering potential for plane waves. We consider the case of elastic one-channel scattering, when the frequencies of incoming and transmitted waves coincide, but the breather provides with additional spatially localized ac channels whose presence may lead to various interference patterns. The dependence of the transmission coefficient on the wave number q and the breather frequency Ω_b is studied for different types of breathers: acoustic and optical breathers, and rotobreathers. We identify several typical scattering setups where the internal time dependence of the breather is of crucial importance for the observed transmission properties.