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Almost-dispersionless pulse transport in long quasiuniform spring-mass chains: A different kind of Newton's cradle.

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Almost-dispersionless pulse transfer between the extremal masses of a uniform harmonic spring-mass chain of arbitrary length can be induced by suitably modifying two masses and their spring's elastic constant at… Click to show full abstract

Almost-dispersionless pulse transfer between the extremal masses of a uniform harmonic spring-mass chain of arbitrary length can be induced by suitably modifying two masses and their spring's elastic constant at both extrema of the chain. It is shown that a deviation (or a pulse) imposed to the first mass gives rise to a wave packet that, after a time of the order of the chain length, almost perfectly reproduces the same deviation (pulse) at the opposite end, with an amplitude loss that is as small as 1.3% in the infinite-length limit; such a dynamics can continue back and forth again for several times before dispersion cleared the effect. The underlying coherence mechanism is that the initial condition excites a bunch of normal modes with almost equal frequency spacing. This constitutes a possible mechanism for efficient energy transfer, e.g., in nanofabricated structures.

Keywords: dispersionless pulse; mass; spring mass; pulse transport; almost dispersionless

Journal Title: Physical Review E
Year Published: 2018

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