Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains

We present a brief discussion of the phase-coherent dynamics of discrete breathers (intrinsic localized modes) in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and its comparison with periodic tunneling of quantum particles in a double-well potential and with macroscopic quantum tunneling of two w...

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spelling irk-123456789-1761972021-02-05T01:30:13Z Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains Kosevich, Y.A. Динамика нелинейных упругих сред We present a brief discussion of the phase-coherent dynamics of discrete breathers (intrinsic localized modes) in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and its comparison with periodic tunneling of quantum particles in a double-well potential and with macroscopic quantum tunneling of two weakly linked Bose–Einstein condensates. We consider the dynamics of relative phase of classically-tunneling discrete breathers in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and show that the dynamics of the relative phase in the π/2 tunneling mode coincides with the experimentally observed dynamics of the relative phase of quantum particles, periodically tunneling in a double-well potential, both for noninteracting and strongly repulsively interacting particles. The observed coincidence demonstrates the correspondence between the dynamics of classical localized excitations in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and tunneling dynamics of quantum object in the double-well potential. We show that in both π/2 and winding tunneling modes the relative phase experiences periodic jumps by π in the instants of complete depopulation of one of the weakly coupled chains or potential wells. The connection of the observed phase dynamics with the non-quantum uncertainty principle is discussed. 2018 Article Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains / Y.A. Kosevich // Физика низких температур. — 2018. — Т. 44, № 7. — С. 857-865. — Бібліогр.: 53 назв. — англ. 0132-6414 PACS: 05.45.Yv, 63.22.–m, 03.75.Lm, 74.50.+r http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/176197 en Физика низких температур Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України
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Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains
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description We present a brief discussion of the phase-coherent dynamics of discrete breathers (intrinsic localized modes) in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and its comparison with periodic tunneling of quantum particles in a double-well potential and with macroscopic quantum tunneling of two weakly linked Bose–Einstein condensates. We consider the dynamics of relative phase of classically-tunneling discrete breathers in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and show that the dynamics of the relative phase in the π/2 tunneling mode coincides with the experimentally observed dynamics of the relative phase of quantum particles, periodically tunneling in a double-well potential, both for noninteracting and strongly repulsively interacting particles. The observed coincidence demonstrates the correspondence between the dynamics of classical localized excitations in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and tunneling dynamics of quantum object in the double-well potential. We show that in both π/2 and winding tunneling modes the relative phase experiences periodic jumps by π in the instants of complete depopulation of one of the weakly coupled chains or potential wells. The connection of the observed phase dynamics with the non-quantum uncertainty principle is discussed.
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fulltext Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2018, v. 44, No. 7, pp. 857–864 Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains Yuriy A. Kosevich Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Kosygina ul., Moscow 119991, Russia Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, 36 Stremyanny per., Moscow 117997, Russia E-mail: yukosevich@gmail.com Received February 1, 2018, published online May 28, 2018 We present a brief discussion of the phase-coherent dynamics of discrete breathers (intrinsic localized modes) in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and its comparison with periodic tunneling of quantum par- ticles in a double-well potential and with macroscopic quantum tunneling of two weakly linked Bose–Einstein condensates. We consider the dynamics of relative phase of classically-tunneling discrete breathers in two weak- ly coupled nonlinear chains and show that the dynamics of the relative phase in the π/2 tunneling mode coincides with the experimentally observed dynamics of the relative phase of quantum particles, periodically tunneling in a double-well potential, both for noninteracting and strongly repulsively interacting particles. The observed coin- cidence demonstrates the correspondence between the dynamics of classical localized excitations in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and tunneling dynamics of quantum object in the double-well potential. We show that in both π/2 and winding tunneling modes the relative phase experiences periodic jumps by π in the instants of complete depopulation of one of the weakly coupled chains or potential wells. The connection of the observed phase dynamics with the non-quantum uncertainty principle is discussed. PACS: 05.45.Yv Solitons; 63.22.–m Phonons or vibrational states in low-dimensional structures and nanoscale materials; 03.75.Lm Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vor- tices, and topological excitations; 74.50.+r Tunneling phenomena; Josephson effects. Keywords: discrete breathers, weakly coupled anharmonic chains, dynamics of relative phase, π/2 tunneling mode, winding tunneling mode, periodic tunneling, classical and quantum objects, non-quantum uncertainty principle. Tunneling through a barrier is purely quantum mechani- cal phenomenon. On a macroscopic scale it is realized in Josephson effect between two weakly coupled phase- coherent condensates. The latter can be two superconductors separated by a thin barrier [1], two reservoirs of superfluid helium connected by nanoscopic apertures [2,3], or two weak- ly linked Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) in a macroscopic double-well potential (single bosonic Josephson junction) [4]. Here we discuss the profound analogy between classical phase-coherent dynamics of discrete breathers (DBs) in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and tunneling dynamics of quantum objects. Corresponding equations of classical tun- neling dynamics of two weakly coupled DBs (wandering breather) were obtained in the first papers in this field [5–7] and were later applied to a great variety of nonlinear me- chanical systems [8]. Here we show that the dynamics of the relative phase of DBs in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains in the / 2π tunneling mode, first described in [5–7], exactly coincides with the experimentally observed dynam- ics of the relative phase of quantum particles periodically tunneling in a double-well potential, which is characterized by the abrupt changes (jumps) of the phase between the / 2π and / 2−π values at the instants when the particles are fully localized in one of the coupled potential wells [9]. The coin- cidence of the phase dynamics is shown both for non- interacting and strongly repulsively interacting quantum particles. We show that in both / 2π and winding tunneling modes, the relative phase experiences periodic jumps by π in the instants of complete depopulation of one of the two weakly coupled chains or potential wells. Nonlinear excitations (solitons, kink-solitons, intrinsic localized modes and discrete breathers) can be created most easily in low-dimensional (1D and quasi-1D) sys- tems [10–20]. Recent experiments have demonstrated the existence of intrinsic localized modes and discrete breathers in various systems such as coupled nonlinear optical wave- guides [21], low-dimensional crystals [22], micromechanical oscillator arrays [23,24], antiferromagnetic materials [25], Josephson junction arrays [26,27], optical waveguides and photonic crystals [28], α-helices [29], and α-uranium [30]. © Yuriy A. Kosevich, 2018 Yuriy A. Kosevich Slowly-moving DBs, subsonic and supersonic kinks were also described in 1D nonlinear chains [15,17,31–37] and quasi-1D polymer crystals [38]. One-dimensional arrays of magnetic or optical microtraps for BECs of ultracold quantum gases with tunneling coupling provide a new field for the studies of coherent nonlinear dynamics in low-dimensional systems [39,40]. Here we discuss another conceptual aspect of classical nonlinear excitations by considering the analogy between dynamics of phase-coherent DBs, either stationary or slow- ly-moving, in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and quantum tunneling dynamics of a quantum particle periodi- cally tunneling in a double-well potential [9] and of two weakly linked macroscopic condensates in a single bosonic Josephson junction [5–7]. There are two qualitatively differ- ent dynamical regimes of the coupled DBs or intrinsic local- ized modes, the nonlinear Rabi-like oscillations of the low- amplitude DBs between the chains (tunneling DB), and one- chain-localization (nonlinear self-trapping) for the high- amplitude DB. These two regimes, which are separated by a separatrix mode with zero rate of energy and excitation ex- change, are analogous to the two regimes in nonlinear dynam- ics of macroscopic Bose–Einstein condensates in a single bosonic Josephson junction [4]. Phase-coherent dynamics of the coupled classical DBs is described by a pair of equations completely similar to that for BECs in a single bosonic Jo- sephson junction [45,46]. The considered evolution of the relative phase of two weakly coupled DBs is analogous to the evolution of relative quantum-mechanical phase between two macroscopic condensates, which was directly measured in a single bosonic Josephson junction by means of interfer- ence [4]. Moreover, the separatrix in the excitation exchange between macroscopic phase-coherent ensembles of particles in weakly coupled classical chains with “repulsive” nonline- arity can be considered as a nonlinear dynamical model of the reversible interaction-induced superfluid-Mott-insulator transition, which was observed in Bose–Einstein condensate in a lattice with tunneling intersite coupling [41]. 1. Model Following [5–7], we consider two linearly coupled iden- tical anharmonic chains (with unit lattice period), which we model with the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam (β-FPU) Hamiltonian: ( ) 2 2( )( )2 ( ) 1 =1 1 1= 2 2 ii i n nn n i H p u u+   + − +   ∑ ∑ ( ) ( )4 2( ) ( ) (1) (2) 1 1 1 , 4 2 i i n n nnu u C u u+  + β − + −    (1) where ( )i nu is displacement of the nth particle from its equi- librium position in the i th chain, ( ) ( )=i i n np u is particle mo- mentum, β and C are, respectively, dimensionless intra- chain nonlinear and inter-chain linear force constants (in units of intra-chain linear force constant). We assume that the coupling is weak, C1, and do not include the nonlin- ear inter-chain interaction. Hamiltonian (1) describes, e.g., purely transverse particle motion [15]. We are interested in high-frequency and therefore short- wavelength dynamics of the coupled chains with the fre- quency close to the top of acoustic phonon band, when the displacements of the nearest-neighbor particles are mainly anti-phase. For this case we introduce continuous enve- lope-functions ( )( ) if x for the particle displacements in the chains, ( ) ( )= ( ) ( 1)i i n nu f x − , ( ) / 1if x∂ ∂  , where =x n is a continuous spatial coordinate along the i th chain, which allow us to write partial differencial equations for them, see, e.g., [11,15,32–34]. Then from Hamiltonian (1) we get the following equations for ( )( ) if x , = 1,2i : 2 ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )3 (3 ) 2(4 ) 16 = 0. i i i i iff C f f Cf x −∂ + + + + β − ∂  (2) In order to deal with the amplitude and phase of the cou- pled nonlinear excitations, it is useful to introduce complex wave fields ( , )ix tΨ for each chain, cf. [32]: ( ) 1( , ) = ( , ) exp( ) ( , ) exp( ) , 2 i i m i mf x t x t i t x t i t∗ Ψ − ω +Ψ ω  (3) where = 4 2 / 4m C Cω + ≈ + is characteristic frequency slightly above the maximal phonon frequency of isolated chains (equal to 2 in each chain in the considered units). Assuming that characteristic frequencies of the fields ( , )ix tΨ are small in comparison with mω , from Eqs. (2) and (3) we get the following coupled nonlinear-Schrödinger-type equations for ( , )ix tΨ , = 1,2i : 2 2 32 1 6 | | = , 2 2 i m i i i i Ci x − ∂ Ψ − ω Ψ + + β Ψ Ψ Ψ ∂  (4) and complex-conjugated equations for i ∗Ψ . Similar Schrö- dinger-type and nonlinear-Schrödinger-type equations for complex envelope functions of classical displacement fields were obtained in [32,42]. Using Eqs. (4), one can readily show the existence of the following integrals of motion and inter-chain flux: 2 2 1 2 1 2= ,sN dx N N Ψ + Ψ ≡ +  ∫ (5) ( ) 22 4 1 2 2 1 =1 1 1= 3 , 2 2 i s i i E C dx x ∗ ∗   ∂Ψ  β Ψ − − Ψ Ψ +Ψ Ψ  ∂    ∑∫ (6) 2 =1 = , 2 i i sx i i i iP dx x x ∗ ∗ ∂Ψ ∂Ψ − Ψ −Ψ  ∂ ∂   ∑∫ (7) 3 3 3= = , 2i i i i i i m iCJ dx J∗ ∗ − − − Ψ Ψ −Ψ Ψ − ω ∫ (8) which describe, respectively, the total number of excita- tions, total energy, total momentum along the chain axis, 858 Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2018, v. 44, No. 7 Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains and total inter-chain flux of excitations (which conserves the total number of them, = 0i iN J+ ), cf. [32]. The exist- ence of these integrals of motion and inter-chain flux demonstrates that the exchange of energy between two coupled nonlinear systems is a coherent phenomenon, which depends, in general, on the initial conditions. 2. Tunneling dynamics of weakly coupled discrete breathers To describe the slowly-moving DB, periodically tunnel- ing between two weakly coupled nonlinear chains with posi- tive (repulsive) anharmonic force constant β, we assume the following form for the complex fields 1Ψ and 2Ψ [5–7]: 1 max 1 exp[ ( )]= cos exp ( ), cosh[ ( )] 2 i kx t i x Vt −Ω Ψ Ψ Θ − ∆ κ − (9) 2 max 2 exp[ ( )]= sin exp ( ), cosh[ ( )] 2 i kx t i x Vt −Ω Ψ Ψ Θ ∆ κ − (10) where 0Ω > describes small shift of the DB frequency ω with respect to mω , 1V  and 1k  are the velocity and wavenumber related with the moving DB, iκ describe in- verse localization lengths. Here = ( / )t kx∆ ∆ − ω stands for the reduced phase of the lattice excitations in the coupled chains, while the parameter = ( / )t kxΘ Θ − ω describes the relative population (population imbalance) of the two chains 1 2 1 2= ( ) / ( ) = cos 2z n n n n− − Θ, where 2 1=in Ψ is local density of excitations in the i th chain, and 1 2 =n n+ 2 max = const.= Ψ Parameters ∆ and Θ determine the inter-chain flux of excitations, cf. Eq. (8): 2 max 1 2 1 2 sin 2 sin= = . 2 cosh[ ( )]cosh[ ( )]m C J J dx x Vt x Vt Ψ Θ ∆ − ω κ − κ −∫ (11) The relative phase Φ , which we will compare below with the relative phase in quantum tunneling dynamics, is defined as [ ]2 1 = arg = arg tan exp ( ) .i  Ψ Φ Θ ∆ Ψ  (12) It is worth underlining that the relative and reduced phases Φ and ∆ coincide in the case of tunneling dynam- ics, in which the tunneling object does not reach during its evolution the state of complete depopulation of one of the weakly coupled atomic chains or potential wells, which corresponds to = 1z . Such tunneling dynamics, with equal relative and reduced phases, was realized, e.g., in Ref. 4 for the Bose–Einstein condensate in weakly linked double- well potential (bosonic Josephson junction). Using Eqs. (4), (9) and (10), after some algebra we ob- tain dispersion equations for the introduced parameters, 2 2 max 1 cos= 3 , 2 sin (2 )m k C  ∆ Ω βΨ − − ω Θ  = ,V k ∂Ω ∂ (13) 2 2 2 1 max= 6 ,cosκ βΨ 〈 Θ〉 2 2 2 2 max= 6 ,sinκ βΨ 〈 Θ〉 (14) and evolution equations for the parameters Θ and ∆: = sin , 2 m C Θ ∆ ω  (15) 2 max3 = cos (2 ) cos cot (2 ). m m CβΨ ∆ Θ + ∆ Θ ω ω  (16) Angular brackets in Eq. (14) denote the time-averaged and therefore time-independent quantities, which take into account the possibility of the integration along the trajecto- ry of the slowly-moving DB in the integrals like that given by Eqs. (5)–(8). In the derivation of Eqs. (15) and (16), it was assumed explicitly that the ratio 1 2 cosh[ ( )] cosh[ ( )] x Vt x Vt κ − κ − is equal to one. The latter is valid for small-amplitude DBs with long localization lengths, 1,2 1κ  . In this case the above assumption, which is exact for the central region of the DBs, x–Vt 0≈ , will be (approximately) valid for a large number of particles, which form weakly localized tunnel- ing DB in weakly coupled nonlinear chains. Equations, similar to Eqs. (15) and (16), were derived, e.g., in Refs. 43, 44 for the description of energy exchange be- tween two nonlinear molecules or weakly coupled classical anharmonic oscillators. Equations (15) and (16) can be written in an equivalent form for the reduced relative phase ∆ and relative popula- tion of the two chains 1 2 1 2= ( ) / ( ) = cos 2z n n n n− + Θ, which are canonically conjugate, except the point of | |= 1z , see below: 2eff= = 1 sin , m H Cz z ∂ − − − ∆ ∂∆ ω  (17) 2 eff max 2 3 = = cos , 1m m H C zz z z ∂ βΨ ∆ + ∆ ∂ ω ω −  (18) with the following effective Hamiltonian (which has the dimension of frequency): 2 2 2max eff 3 = 1 cos . 2 m m CH z z βΨ − − ∆ ω ω (19) The very same equations were derived in [45,46] in connection with theoretical studies, based on macroscopic quantum Gross–Pitaevskii equation, of coherent atomic tunneling and coherent oscillations between two weakly coupled Bose–Einstein condensates, which were later used in the analysis of the experimental realization of a single bosonic Josephson junction [4]. In our case, Eqs. (17) and (18) describe the exchange of lattice excitations be- tween the chains rather than atomic tunneling. One can consider such excitation exchange as a classical counter- part of macroscopic quantum tunneling dynamics. It is noteworthy that the evolution equations, similar to Eqs. (15) and (16), describe the dynamics of two weakly Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2018, v. 44, No. 7 859 Yuriy A. Kosevich coupled identical nonlinear oscillators [43,44]. Therefore the tunneling intrinsic localized modes or discrete breathers can be considered as weakly coupled phase-coherent nonlinear macroscopic oscillators. Since nonlinear macroscopic oscil- lators can posses nonlinearity of both signs, the evolution equations (15) and (16) and their derivatives, Eqs. (23) be- low, can be considered in general for both positive and nega- tive sign of the anharmonic force constant β. Equations (15) and (16) can be solved analytically for the given initial conditions. [For the weak coupling, in the following we assume = 2mω ]. Using the ansatz, cos = ( ) / sin (2 ),A t∆ Θ (20) where = 0A for = 0Θ , we get from Eqs. (15) and (16): 2 max= (3 / )sin (4 ) .A C− βΨ Θ Θ  (21) We are seaking for the solution of Eqs. (15) and (16) with the initial condition (0) = 0Θ , which corresponds to zero complex field (complex wave function) 2Ψ in the second chain at t = 0. For (0) = 0Θ and (0) = 0A , we ob- tain the following exact solution of Eqs. (15) and (16): 2 max 23 = (2 ),sin 2 A C βΨ − Θ 2 2 2max max3 3 cos = sin (2 ) = 1 , 2 2 z C C βΨ βΨ ∆ − Θ − − (22) which corresponds to (0) = / 2∆ π mod π. Then Eqs. (15) and (16) can be reduced to the equations = sin , 4 C Θ ∆ 2 max3 = cos (2 ), 4 βΨ ∆ Θ (23) which will be solved below with the initial conditions (0) = 0Θ and (0) = / 2∆ π . Finally, from Eqs. (22) and (23) we get the following two equivalent pendulum equations: 2 sin = 0 4 C δ + δ (24) for = 2δ ∆ − π, and 2 0 sin = 0Ξ +Ω Ξ (25) for = 4Ξ Θ , where 2 0 max= 3 / 4Ω βΨ . The pendulum equation can be solved exactly, see, e.g., Refs. 44, 47. We are interested in the solution of Eq. (24) with the initial conditions (0) = 0δ and 2 max 3(0) = 2 δ βΨ . The corresponding initial conditions for Ξ in Eq. (25) are (0) = 0Ξ and (0) = CΞ . The important property of Eqs. (23) and of correspond- ing pendulum equations (24) and (25) is the existence of two qualitatively different dynamical regimes of excitation and energy exchange, which have a separatrix realized for the condition = 1S , where 2 max= 3 / (2 )S CβΨ is the non- linearity-over-coupling parameter. For 1S  , Eqs. (23) describe the mode, in which the parameter Θ linearly grows with the “running” time t ≡ /t kx≡ − ω, = 2ω : 2 4 max 2 9 sin ( ), 4 64 tC Ct C β Ψ Θ ≈ +      (26) 2 max3 sin ( ), 2 22 tC C βΨπ ∆ ≈ +    (27) cos ( ), 2 tz C≈   (28) 2 2 4 0 max9 = = . 16 C C C C C Ω β Ψ − − (29) In this regime, Θ spans the full range from 0 to 2π, which corresponds to the total energy exchange between the nonlin- ear chains and therefore to the DB, periodically tunneling between the two chains, when the reduced phase ∆ is close to / 2π . We call the excitation exchange in this regime as the / 2π tunneling mode of DB. According to Eq. (11), the fre- quency of periodic inter-chain flux of excitations and energy in this mode, 1 max maxsin 2 sin sin ( / 2),J C C Ct∝ Ψ Θ ∆ ≈ Ψ   is determined by the inter-chain coupling / 2C , reduced by the nonlinearity parameter 2 maxβΨ , see Eq. (29). The relative phase Φ is defined by Eq. (12) and its time evolution in the / 2π tunneling mode, described by Eqs. (26) and (27), is presented in Fig. 1 for different values of the nonlinearity-over-coupling parameter 2 max= 3 / (2 )S CβΨ . Figure 1 clearly shows that there are abrupt changes (jumps) of the relative phase Φ by π, between / 2π and – / 2π , at each instant when the DB is located completely in one of the coupled chains and the relative population is equal to unit in modulus, = 1z . According to Eq. (27), the interval between such instants in the weakly-nonlinear lim- it is given by 2 / Cπ . In the case of vanishing nonlinearity, the time evolution of the relative phase Φ coincides exact- ly with the experimentally observed dynamics of the rela- tive phase of the tunneling quantum particles in a double- well potential [9]. The jumps of the relative phase at the instants of = 1z are related with the uncertainty of the phase when the particle wave function is exactly zero in one of the coupled potential wells or chains, = 0iΨ either for = 1i or = 2i , see Eqs. (9) and (10). On the other hand, the abrupt change of the relative phase can be related with the (non-quantum) uncertainty principle: the variables z and Φ are canonically conjugate, see Eqs. (17) and (18), and therefore cannot be measured simultaneously because the product of their uncertainties z∆ and ∆Φ is bounded from below by the inequality 1/ 2z∆ ⋅∆Φ ≥ . At the instants of = 1z , the inter-chain tunneling current is zero, = 0z , see (11), and therefore the relative population z and corre- spondingly the location of the DB or quantum particle is well defined, which makes the value of Φ be uncertain at these instants. 860 Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2018, v. 44, No. 7 Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains Equations (28) and (29) also predict substantial reduction of the tunneling frequency by the nonlinearity, which in turn can be compared with the observed transition from the high first-order (single-particle) to low second-order (two-particle co-tunneling) tunneling rates of quantum particles in the double-well potential, caused by the repulsion between par- ticles [9]. Figure 1(c) shows phase dynamics in the / 2π tunneling mode, which describes periodic complete depopu- lation of the coupled chains for = 0.95S − , which corre- sponds to the β-FPU Hamiltonian (1) with negative β. This value of the nonlinearity-over-coupling parameter S can be put in line with strong repulsion between periodically tunnel- ing quantum particles with positive masses in the experi- ments [9] because lattice excitations in acoustic phonon band in monatomic chain with nearest-neighbor interactions pos- sess negative effective mass [32,36]. Nonlinear excitations in the β-FPU model with negative β are the dark lattice solitons [15,16] (and tunneling dark lattice solitons in two weakly coupled chains), which are formed due to effective repulsion between the quasiparticles with negative effective mass. In the tunneling dark lattice solitons in coupled β-FPU chains, the factors max exp[ ( )] / cosh[ ( )]ii kx t x VtΨ −Ω κ − with Ω > 0 in the complex fields (9) and (10) are replaced by the factors ( ) ( )max exp tanh ii kx t x VtΨ −Ω κ −       with Ω < 0, = 1,2,i see, e.g., [15]. The origin of dark lattice solitons in the β-FPU chain with negative β can in turn be put in line with the origin of the dark solitons and vortices in Bose–Einstein condensate, which are formed due to the repul- sion between quantum particles with positive masses, which is described by the nonlinear term 2g Ψ Ψ with positive g in the Gross–Pitaevskii equation [48]. Figure 1(c) demonstrates the dynamics of relative phase Φ with reduced tunneling rate, which is similar to the phase dynamics observed in the exper- iments [9] in the case of slow second-order co-tunneling of quantum particles with strong repulsion. Figure 1 also shows that both the reduced phase ∆ and parameter Θ are continuous and single-valued functions (of time) and the wave functions (9) and (10) of the dis- placement fields, which are determined by these parame- ters, are the single-valued functions as it is required by quantum mechanics [49], and the jumps by π of the rela- tive phase Φ , which is determined by (12), do not make the wave functions ambiguous functions. The continuity of the ∆ and Θ functions is confirmed by the existence of the second-order equations (24) and (25) for these functions, which provide description of the tunneling dynamics, equiv- alent to that given by Eqs. (23). Since both the classically tunneling DBs in a system of two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and the quantum particles, periodically tunneling in a double-well potential, can be described with the use of the canonically conjugate relative population z and reduced phase ∆ (and relative phase Φ ), there is clear coincidence of the phase dynamics and the correspondence between period- ic tunneling of classical and quantum objects. The phase dynamics in the / 2π tunneling mode can al- so be compared with the phase dynamics in the quantum Rabi oscillations, see, e.g., [50]. Here, for the superposition of two states 1 2( ) = ( ) 1 ( ) 2t a t a tΨ + (30) with equal on-site energies 1 2=E E E≡ , Schrödinger equations for the complex amplitudes 1a and 2a are the following: 1 1 2= ,ia Ea a− γ (31) 2 2 1= ,ia Ea a− γ (32) Fig. 1. (Color online) Time evolution of parameter Θ (green lines), reduced phase ∆ (blue lines) and relative phase Φ (red lines) of two DBs in the / 2π tunneling mode between two weak- ly coupled nonlinear chains: (a) for = 0S , (b) for = 0.25S , and (c) = 0.95S − . Dynamics of the relative phase is described by Eqs. (12), (26) and (27), time is measured in 1C− . Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2018, v. 44, No. 7 861 Yuriy A. Kosevich where parameter γ is the coupling matrix element between the states, and = 1 . For the initial conditions 1(0) = 1a and 2 (0) = 0a and the value of the coupling parameter = / 4,Cγ which corresponds to Eqs. (4), Eqs. (31) and (32) have the solution 1 = cos ( )exp ( ) = cos ( / 4)exp ( ),a t iEt Ct iEtγ − − (33) 2 = sin ( ) exp ( ) = sin ( / 4)exp ( ),a i t iEt i Ct iEtγ − − (34) which exactly corresponds to the / 2π tunneling mode, described by Eqs. (26) and (27) in the linear case = 0S for = / 4CtΘ and = / 2∆ π . [In the system of two weakly coupled atomic chains, the linear case = 0S corresponds to two weakly coupled identical harmonic chains, with 1C  and equal final lengths, when the / 2π tunneling mode describes the periodic inter-chain tunneling of the confined harmonic vibrational mode at the top of acoustic band of the chains, with eigenfrequency = 2mω ω ≈ .] Therefore the / 2π tunneling mode for 0 <| |< 1S can be considered as the nonlinear Rabi-like oscillations of excitation popula- tion in two coupled anharmonic chains, in which the com- plex wave functions 1Ψ and 2Ψ in the ansatz (9) and (10) play role of the complex amplitudes 1a and 2a in the su- perposition of two states (30). The / 2π tunneling mode, which is described by the single-valued wave function in accordance with the requirement of quantum mechan- ics [49], can also be realized in two weakly linked macro- scopic quantum Bose–Einstein condensates. The separatrix, realized for = 1S and eff = / mH C ω , is characterized by infinite oscillation period of the physical pendulum (24) or (25), which corresponds to the infinite period of inter-chain energy exchange. For the considered initial conditions, the separatrix is described by the follow- ing solution of Eqs. (23): = arctan exp( ) , 2 4 C t π Θ −   = 2arctan exp ( ) , 2 C t ∆    (35) (0) = 0, (0) = 1, ( ) = 0, (0) = , ( ) = . 2 z z π Θ ∞ ∆ ∆ ∞ π (36) There is no difference between the reduced ∆ and relative Φ phases in the separatrix mode for > 0t because the state of complete depopulation of the one of the coupled chains = 1z is reached only at = 0t , see Eq. (36). The flux of the inter- chain excitation exchange is zero at the separatrix for t →∞ : = 0iJ since ( )sin ( ) = 0∆ ∞ , see Eq. (11). Beyond the separatrix, in the limit of 1S  , one can obtain the following expressions for the evolution of Θ, ∆ and z with the running time /t t kx≡ − ω , = 2ω : 2 max2 max 3sin , 43 C t Θ ≈ βΨ   βΨ    (37) ( ) 2 2 2 max max22 max 3 3sin , 2 4 218 Ct tπ  ∆ ≈ + βΨ + βΨ   βΨ      (38) ( ) 2 22 max22 max 2 31 ,sin 49 Cz t ≈ − βΨ   βΨ    (39) 2 2 2 max max 2 max = . 9 C βΨ βΨ − βΨ  (40) This dynamical regime corresponds to the asymmetric non- linear mode (known, e.g., for two coupled nonlinear wave- guides [51–53]), in which one system, here is chain 1, car- ries almost all vibrational energy while the other is almost at rest. This excitation-exchange regime can be called as the winding tunneling mode of DB because of linear in- crease in time (winding up) of the reduced phase ∆, see Eq. (38) and Fig. 2. As one can see in Fig. 2, the relative phase Φ experiences periodic jumps by π, with the period of 2 / Sπ . The time instants of the relative-phase jumps coincide with the instants of complete depopulation of one of the coupled chains, when = 1z , similar to the case of the phase jumps by π in the / 2π tunneling mode shown in Fig. 1. As one can see in Figs. 1 and 2, both the reduced phase ∆ and parameter Θ are continuous and single-valued functions in the / 2π and winding tunneling modes, which makes the wave functions (9) and (10) of the displacement Fig. 2. (Color online) Time evolution of parameter Θ (green lines), reduced phase ∆ (blue lines) and relative phase Φ (red lines) of two DBs in the winding tunneling mode between two weakly coupled nonlinear chains: (a) for = 1.25S , (b) for = 1.25S − . Dynamics of the relative and reduced phases is de- scribed by Eqs. (12), (37) and (38), time is measured in 1C− . 862 Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2018, v. 44, No. 7 Phase dynamics of discrete breathers periodically tunneling in weakly coupled nonlinear chains fields be the single-valued functions as it is required by quantum mechanics [49]. In the winding tunneling mode, the energy exchange between the coupled chains is rela- tively weak and gradually decreases with the increase of the parameter S beyond the separatrix value of = 1S . The frequency of periodic inter-chain flux of excitations and energy in this mode, 1 max sin 2 sinJ C∝ Ψ Θ ∆ ∝ 2 2 maxmax( / )sin (3 / 2),C t∝ βΨ βΨ  is determined by the nonlinearity parameter 2 max3 / 2βΨ , reduced by the inter- chain coupling C , see Eq. (40). The two dynamical regimes of energy and excitation exchange between DBs in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains, given by Eqs. (26), (27) and (37), (38), are analo- gous, respectively, to anharmonic Josephson-like oscilla- tions and nonlinear self-trapping, which were detected in a single bosonic Josephson junction [4]. It is worth mentioning that the form and frequency of a stationary or slowly-moving DB in an isolated chain can be obtained only in the winding tunneling (self-trapping) mode, in which one can consider the limit of C 0→ . Indeed, accord- ing to Eq. (37), in this limit one has = 0Θ in Eqs. (9) and (10) and DB frequency is obtained from Eqs. (9), (13), (22) and (38), and is equal to 2 2 max 3= 2 ( / 2) / = 2 . 2 4 ktω +Ω+ ∂ ∆ ∂ + βΨ − (41) This expression for the DB frequency exactly coin- cides with the known expression for a single stationary or slowly-moving DB in the small-amplitude limit, see, e.g., [5–7,11,32]. This coincidence confirms the correct choice of the distribution of the reduced phase ∆ between the tunneling objects, given by / 2i− ∆ and / 2i∆ in the exponents in Eqs. 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These regimes have a profound analogy, and are described by a similar pair of equations, to the anharmonic Josephson-like oscillations and nonlinear self-trapping, which were ob- served in a single bosonic Josephson junction. We show that the dynamics of the relative phase in the / 2π tunneling mode coincides with the experimentally observed dynamics of the relative phase of quantum particles, periodically tun- neling in a double-well potential, both for noninteracting and strongly repulsively interacting particles. The / 2π tunneling mode can also be observed in two weakly linked Bose– Einstein condensates. The observed coincidence demon- strates the correspondence between the dynamics of classi- cal localized excitations in two weakly coupled nonlinear chains and tunneling dynamics of quantum particles in a double-well potential. In both / 2π and winding tunneling modes, the relative phase Φ experiences periodic jumps by π in the instants of complete depopulation of one of the two weakly coupled atomic chains or potential wells. The connection of the observed phase dynamics with the non- quantum uncertainty principle is discussed. The obtained dispersion and evolution equations, together with the wave functions of the coupled nonlinear excitations, can be ap- plied to the tunneling macroscopic Bose–Einstein conden- sate, moving along two weakly linked bosonic waveguides, to classically-tunneling phase-coherent discrete breathers (intrinsic localized modes) in two weakly linked macro- molecules, α-helices or DNA, and to electron-phonon and exciton-phonon polarons in two weakly coupled polymer molecules or semiconductor waveguides. 4. Acknowledgment The author has discussed with Arnol’d Markovich Kosevich the first papers in this field [5–7] before their publication. 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