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Strong disorder often has drastic consequences for quantum dynamics. This is best illustrated by the phenomenon of Anderson localization in non-interacting systems, where destructive quantum wave interference leads to the complete absence…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-15 Ben T. McDonough , Marius Lemm , Andrew Lucas

Turbulence of magnetohydrodynamic waves in nature and in the laboratory is generally cross-helical or non-balanced, in that the energies of Afv\'en waves moving in opposite directions along the guide magnetic field are unequal. Based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-25 Stanislav Boldyrev , Jean Carlos Perez

The stability of localization in the presence of interactions remains an open problem, with finite-size effects posing significant challenges to numerical studies. In this work, we investigate the perturbative stability of noninteracting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-05 Jessica Kaijia Jiang , Federica Maria Surace , Olexei I. Motrunich

The energy spectrum in three examples of inhomogeneous, anisotropic turbulence, namely, purely mechanical wall turbulence, the Bolgiano-Obukhov cascade and helical turbulence, is analyzed. As one could expect, simple dimensional reasoning…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Piero Olla

Localization of waves by disorder is a fundamental physical problem encompassing a diverse spectrum of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies in the context of metal-insulator transition, quantum Hall effect, light propagation in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-06 Sergej Flach

Well defined scaling laws clearly appear in wall bounded turbulence, even very close to the wall, where a distinct violation of the refined Kolmogorov similarity hypothesis (RKSH) occurs together with the simultaneous persistence of scaling…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Benzi , G. Amati , C. M. Casciola , F. Toschi , R. Piva

Whether turbulence intermittencies shall be described by a log-Poisson, a log-stable pdf or other distributions is still debated nowadays. In this paper, a bridge between polymer physics, self-avoiding walk and random vortex stretching is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nicolas Rimbert

We discuss, in the context of energy flow in high-dimensional systems and Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser (KAM) theory, the behavior of a chain of rotators (rotors) which is purely Hamiltonian, apart from dissipation at just one end. We derive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Noé Cuneo , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , C. Eugene Wayne

A nonlinear two dimensional fluid model of whistler turbulence is developed that nonlinearly couples wave magnetic field with electron density perturbations. This coupling leads essentially to finite compressibility effects in whistler…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dastgeer Shaikh

A refined cascade model for kinetic turbulence in weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas is presented that includes both the transition between weak and strong turbulence and the effect of nonlocal interactions on the nonlinear transfer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. G. Howes , J. M. TenBarge , W. Dorland

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the majority of natural systems, including the interstellar medium, the solar corona, and the solar wind, has Reynolds numbers far exceeding the Reynolds numbers achievable in numerical experiments.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. C. Perez , J. Mason , S. Boldyrev , F. Cattaneo

Understanding the small-scale structure of incompressible turbulence and its implications for the non-local pressure field is one of the fundamental challenges in fluid mechanics. Intense velocity gradient structures tend to cluster on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-12 Dimitar G. Vlaykov , Michael Wilczek

Nonlinearity provides a powerful mechanism for controlling energy localization in structured dynamical systems. In this study, we investigate the emergence of nonlinearity-induced energy localization at the corners of a kagome lattice model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 K Prabith , Georgios Theocharis , Rajesh Chaunsali

We use two related non-stationarity functions as measures of the degree of scale-by-scale non-equilibrium in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. The values of these functions indicate significant non-equilibrium at the upper end of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Obligado , J. C. Vassilicos

The conventional approach to the turbulent energy cascade, based on Richardson-Kolmogorov phenomenology, ignores the topology of emerging vortices, which is related to the helicity of the turbulent flow. It is generally believed that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-09 Rodion Stepanov , Ephim Golbraikh , Peter Frick , Alexander Shestakov

The genesis, growth and rupture of intracranial aneurysm (IA) are open questions in neurovascular medicine until the present moment. The complexity of aneurysm mechanobiology and pathobiology staggeringly combine intertwining biological and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Simon Tupin , Khalid M. Saqr , Sherif Rashad , Kuniyasu Niizuma , Makoto Ohta , Teiji Tominaga

Differential models for hydrodynamic, passive-scalar and wave turbulence given by nonlinear first- and second-order evolution equations for the energy spectrum in the $k$-space were analysed. Both types of models predict formation an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Simon Thalabard , Sergey Nazarenko , Sebastien Galtier , Sergey Medvedev

In tokamak plasmas, sheared flows perpendicular to the driving temperature gradients can strongly stabilize linear modes. While the system is linearly stable, regimes with persistent nonlinear turbulence may develop, i.e. the system is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Ben F. McMillan , Chris C. T. Pringle , Bogdan Teaca

Scaling in the dynamical properties of complex many-body systems has been of strong interest since turbulence phenomena became the subject of systematic mathematical studies. In this article, dynamical critical phenomena far from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-27 Steven Mathey , Thomas Gasenzer , Jan M. Pawlowski

It is shown that the description of anomalous scaling in turbulent systems requires the simultaneous use of two normalization scales. This phenomenon stems from the existence of two independent (infinite) sets of anomalous scaling exponents…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Victor L'vov , Evgenii Podivilov , Itamar Procaccia