Meister, M.; Floría, L. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 37 (2004) 2, pp. 213-221
In the dissipative, driven standard Frenkel-Kontorova model propagating breathers exist as attractors of the dynamics. In collisions, these excitations interact through the phonons they emit. A possible result of a two-breather collision is a bound state of two breathers. After looking at...