Discrete Multiscale Analysis: A Biatomic Lattice System

TL;DR

This paper develops a discrete multiscale perturbative method for a biatomic lattice system, deriving a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation that models localized solitonic excitations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel discrete multiscale analysis approach applied to a biatomic chain with nonlinear interactions, resulting in a discrete NLS equation.

Findings

Derived a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation for the biatomic lattice

Connected the discrete model to the standard continuous NLS in the continuum limit

Provided a framework for analyzing localized solitonic excitations in discrete systems

Abstract

We discuss a discrete approach to the multiscale reductive perturbative method and apply it to a biatomic chain with a nonlinear interaction between the atoms. This system is important to describe the time evolution of localized solitonic excitations. We require that also the reduced equation be discrete. To do so coherently we need to discretize the time variable to be able to get asymptotic discrete waves and carry out a discrete multiscale expansion around them. Our resulting nonlinear equation will be a kind of discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. If we make its continuum limit, we obtain the standard Nonlinear Schr\"odinger differential equation.