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We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying scattering length. It is demonstrated that, even in the absence of any external trapping potential, a soliton can be confined due to the inhomogeneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Theocharis , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

An iterface structure between turbulence and laminar flow is investigated in two-dimensional channel flow. This spatially localized structure not only sustains itself, but also converts laminar state into turbulence actively. In other…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-13 Toshiki Teramura , Sadayoshi Toh

The main form of freeway traffic congestion is the familiar stop-and-go wave, characterized by wide moving jams that propagate indefinitely upstream provided enough traffic demand. They cause severe, long-lasting adverse effects, such as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-14 Zhengbing He , Jorge Laval , Yu Han , Andreas Hegyi , Ryosuke Nishi , Cathy Wu

A chaotic system under periodic forcing can develop a periodically visited strange attractor. We discuss simple models in which the phenomenon, quite easy to see in numerical simulations, can be completely studied analytically.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-09-19 Giovanni Gallavotti , Guido Gentile , Alessandro Giuliani

A quantum spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ chain with an axial symmetry is normally described by quasiparticles associated with the spins oriented along the axis of rotation. Kinetic constraints can enrich such a description by setting apart different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Maurizio Fagotti

This work studies a macroscopic traffic flow model driven by a system of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. Using Lie symmetry analysis, we determine the infinitesimal generators and construct an optimal system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Urvashi Joshi , Aniruddha Kumar Sharma , Rajan Arora

In finite-dimensional, chaotic, Lorenz-like wave-particle dynamical systems one can find diffusive trajectories, which share their appearance with that of laminar chaotic diffusion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 074101 (2022)] known from delay…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 David Müller-Bender , Rahil N. Valani , Günter Radons

In this paper, a new model for traffic on roads with multiple lanes is developed, where the vehicles do not adhere to a lane discipline. Assuming identical vehicles, the dynamics is split along two independent directions: the Y-axis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Rakesh U. Chavan , Debraj Chakraborty , D. Manjunath

In the present work we formally extend the theory of port-Hamiltonian systems to include random perturbations. In particular, suitably choosing the space of flow and effort variables we will show how several elements coming from possibly…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Francesco Cordoni , Luca Di Persio , Riccardo Muradore

The profile of a nonlinear stationary thermomagnetic wave in the resistive state of superconductors is studied at different transport currents. It is proved that the thermomagnetic wave has an oscillating profile at relatively high values…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Nizam A. Taylanov

We study localized traveling waves and chaotic states in strongly nonlinear one-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices. We show that the solitary waves are super-exponentially localized, and present an accurate numerical method allowing to find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Karsten Ahnert , Arkady Pikovsky

Stop-and-go waves in vehicular traffic are commonly explained as a linear collective instability induced by e.g. response delays. We explore an alternative mechanism that more faithfully mirrors oscillation formation in dense single-file…

Geophysical turbulence is observed to self-organize into large-scale flows such as zonal jets and coherent vortices. Previous studies on barotropic beta-plane turbulence have shown that coherent flows emerge out of a background of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 Nikolaos A. Bakas , Petros J. Ioannou

We have revealed that the barrier-tunneling process in non-integrable systems is strongly linked to chaos in complex phase space by investigating a simple scattering map model. The semiclassical wavefunction reproduces complicated features…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Onishi , A. Shudo , K. S. Ikeda , K. Takahashi

We introduce two simple two-dimensional lattice models to study traffic flow in cities. We have found that a few basic elements give rise to the characteristic phase diagram of a first-order phase transition from a freely moving phase to a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-14 José A. Cuesta , Froilán C. Martínez , Juan M. Molera , Angel Sánchez Escuela

This paper analyses the Hamiltonian model of drift waves which describes the chaotic transport of particles in the plasma confinement. With one drift wave the system is integrable and it presents stable orbits. When one wave is added the…

We study wave propagation in networks of coupled cells which can behave as excitable or self-oscillatory media. For excitable media, an asymptotic construction of wave trains is presented. This construction predicts their shape and speed,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Carpio

We introduce two simple two-dimensional lattice models to study traffic flow in cities. We have found that a few basic elements give rise to the characteristic phase diagram of a first-order phase transition from a freely moving phase to a…

Statistics of tunneling rates in the presence of chaotic classical dynamics is discussed on a realistic example: a hydrogen atom placed in parallel uniform static electric and magnetic fields, where tunneling is followed by ionization along…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dominique Delande , Jakub Zakrzewski

For generic Hamiltonian systems we derive predictions for dynamical tunneling from regular to chaotic phase-space regions. In contrast to previous approaches, we account for the resonance-assisted enhancement of regular-to-chaotic tunneling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-04 Normann Mertig , Julius Kullig , Clemens Löbner , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick