Local dynamics of Discrete Breathers

Discrete Breathers (DBs) are phenomena of energy localization in networks of anharmonic oscillators. Recent literature has shown that DBs might be present at various places in protein structures, along with reports linking DBs explicitly with the functions of some enzymes. I will talk about my work in describing what and why locally happens to anharmonic oscillators, and how that may relate to the larger networks, and, hence, to applications in modelling of protein strucutres and dynamics.