title: Oscillatory instabilities of standing waves in one-dimensional nonlinear lattices.
abstract: In one-dimensional anharmonic lattices, we construct nonlinear standing waves (SWs) reducing to harmonic SWs at small amplitude. For SWs with spatial periodicity incommensurate with the lattice period, a transition by breaking of analyticity versus wave amplitude is observed. As a consequence of the discreteness, oscillatory linear instabilities, persisting for arbitrarily small amplitude in infinite lattices, appear for all wave numbers Q not equal 0,pi. Incommensurate analytic SWs with |Q|>pi/2 may however appear as "quasistable," as their instability growth rate is of higher order.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS), CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Morgante
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Johansson
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kopidakis
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aubry