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Dynamical fluctuations in classical adiabatic processes: General description and their implications

Classical Physics 2012-02-10 v3 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Quantum Physics

Abstract

Dynamical fluctuations in classical adiabatic processes are not considered by the conventional classical adiabatic theorem. In this work a general result is derived to describe the intrinsic dynamical fluctuations in classical adiabatic processes. Interesting implications of our general result are discussed via two subtopics, namely, an intriguing adiabatic geometric phase in a dynamical model with an adiabatically moving fixed-point solution, and the possible "pollution" to Hannay's angle or to other adiabatic phase objects for adiabatic processes involving non-fixed-point solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3623,
  title  = {Dynamical fluctuations in classical adiabatic processes: General description and their implications},
  author = {Qi Zhang and Jiangbin Gong and C. H. Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3623},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

19 pages, no figures, discussion significantly expanded, published version

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