Abstract
It is well known that the classic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) study of a chain of nonlinear oscillators is closely related to a number of completely integrable systems, including the Toda lattice. Here, we present a method that captures the departure of nonintegrable FPUT dynamics from those of a nearby integrable Toda lattice. Using initial long-wave data, we find that the former depart rather sharply from the latter near the predicted shock time of an asymptotic partial differential equation approximation, at which point energy cascades into higher lattice modes. Our method provides an appropriate frame of reference for one to distinguish the short-term dynamics of the two systems, whose macroscopic trajectories diverge noticeably only on a much longer timescale, when the FPUT dynamics thermalize.
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