Breather Induction by Modulational Instability in Binary Metamaterials

• Authors: N. Lazarides , M. Molina , G. Tsironis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It is demonstrated numerically that nonlinear localized excitations in the form of dissipative discrete breathers can be induced spontaneously through the mechanism of modulational instability in nonlinear magnetic metamaterials comprised of binary arrays of split-ring resonators. Specifically, a variety of high amplitude dissipative breathers can be produced by frequency chirping of the driving field, which concentrate a large portion of the total energy of the metamaterial within only a few lattice sites.

Keywords

EN

05.45.-a; 05.45.Xt; 63.20.Pw

Discipline

• 05.45.-a: Nonlinear dynamics and chaos(see also section 45 Classical mechanics of discrete systems; for chaos in fluid dynamics, see 47.52.+j; for chaos in superconductivity, see 74.40.De)
• 63.20.Pw: Localized modes
• 05.45.Xt: Synchronization; coupled oscillators

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 116
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 635-637

Dates

published

2009-10

Contributors

author

N. Lazarides

• Department of Physics, University of Crete, and FORTH, P.O. Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, Greece

author

M. Molina

• Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile

author

G. Tsironis

• Department of Physics, University of Crete, and FORTH, P.O. Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, Greece

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.116.635