Dmitry Pelinovsky and Vassilis Rothos

Stability of discrete breathers in magnetic metamaterials

"Localized excitations in nonlinear complex systems - current state of the art and future perspectives" (Edited by R. Carretero-Gonzalez, J. Cuevas-Maraver, D. Frantzeskakis, N. Karachalios, P. Kevrekidis, and F. Palmero-Acebedo) (Springer, NY) pp. 359-376 (2014)

Abstract:
We consider the discrete Klein-Gordon equation for magnetic metamaterials derived by Eleftheriou, Lazarides, and Tsironis. We obtain a general criterion for spectral stability of multi-site breathers for a small coupling constant. We show how this criterion differs from the one derived in the standard discrete Klein-Gordon equation.

Keywords:
discrete Klein-Gordon equation, discrete breathers, existence and stability, perturbation theory, magnetic metamaterials.