Energy transmission in nonlinear chains of harmonic oscillators with long-range interactions

In this work, the phenomenon of supratransmission in nonlinear sine-Gordon chains with global interactions will be predicted analytically for the first time in the literature. The model considered is an extension of the classical sine-Gordon chain which describes the dynamics of pendula attached thr...

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Main Authors: J.E. Macías-Díaz, A.B. Togueu Motcheyo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Results in Physics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379720316776
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Summary:In this work, the phenomenon of supratransmission in nonlinear sine-Gordon chains with global interactions will be predicted analytically for the first time in the literature. The model considered is an extension of the classical sine-Gordon chain which describes the dynamics of pendula attached through strings. Using a relatively simple analytical theory, we derive the threshold that triggers the supratransmission process for relatively high degrees of interaction. The threshold for the classical model is a particular case of our predictions when the degree of interaction tends to infinity. We confirm numerically the validity of our results using a systematic computational approach. We obtain numerically bifurcation diagrams for the supratransmission threshold and compare them with the theoretical predictions, obtaining a good agreement.
ISSN:2211-3797