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We study the chaotic behavior of multidimensional Hamiltonian systems in the presence of nonlinearity and disorder. It is known that any localized initial excitation in a large enough linear disordered system spreads for a finite amount of…
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We experimentally probe nonlinear wave propagation in weakly compressed granular media, and observe a crossover from quasi-linear sound waves at low impact, to shock waves at high impact. We show that this crossover grows with the confining…
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Diffusion of colloidal particles in a complex environment such as polymer networks or biological cells is a topic of high complexity with significant biological and medical relevance. In such situations, the interaction between the…
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We study the localization properties of generalized, two- and three-dimensional Lieb lattices, $\mathcal{L}_2(n)$ and $\mathcal{L}_3(n)$, $n= 1, 2, 3$ and $4$, at energies corresponding to flat and dispersive bands using the transfer matrix…
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We study the evolution of the energy (mode-power) distribution for a class of randomly perturbed Hamiltonian partial differential equations and derive {\it master equations} for the dynamics of the expected power in the discrete modes. In…