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In bouncing cosmology, the primordial fluctuations are generated in a cosmic contraction phase before the bounce into the current expansion phase. For a nonsingular bounce, curvature and anisotropy grow rapidly during the bouncing phase,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-30 BingKan Xue , David Garfinkle , Frans Pretorius , Paul J. Steinhardt

We investigate the dynamics of Q-balls in one, two and three space dimensions, using numerical simulations of the full nonlinear equations of motion. We find that the dynamics of Q-balls is extremely complex, involving processes such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard Battye , Paul Sutcliffe

The knuckleball is perhaps the most enigmatic pitch in baseball. Relying on the presence of raised seams on the surface of the ball to create asymmetric flow, a knuckleball's trajectory has proven very challenging to predict compared to…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Nicholas J. Nelson , Eric Strauss

The dynamics of systems of two and three planets, initially placed on circular and nearly coplanar orbits, is explored in the proximity of their stability limit. The evolution of a large number of systems is numerically computed and their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Marzari

We study the dynamics of a bouncing coin whose motion is restricted to the two-dimensional plane. Such coin model is equivalent to the system of two equal masses connected by a rigid rod, making elastic collisions with a flat boundary. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Ki Yeun Kim

We characterize a transition from normal to ballistic diffusion in a bouncing ball dynamics. The system is composed of a particle, or an ensemble of non-interacting particles, experiencing elastic collisions with a heavy and periodically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 André L. P. Livorati , Tiago Kroetz , Carl P. Dettmann , Iberê L. Caldas , Edson D. Leonel

The motion of a bead on a rotating circular hoop is investigated using elementary calculus and simple symmetry arguments. The peculiar trajectories of the bead at different speeds of rotation of the hoop are presented. Phase portraits and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 Shovan Dutta , Subhankar Ray

Quantum ergodicity of classically chaotic systems has been studied extensively both theoretically and experimentally, in mathematics, and in physics. Despite this long tradition we are able to present a new rigorous result using only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Burq , M. Zworski

We study a simple model of a bouncing ball that takes explicitely into account the elastic deformability of the body and the energy dissipation due to internal friction. We show that this model is not subject to the problem of inelastic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-06-15 Anna Maria Cherubini , Giorgio Metafune , Francesco Paparella

We call a system bouncing ball billiard if it consists of a particle that is subjected to a constant vertical force and bounces inelastically on a one-dimendional vibrating periodically corrugated floor. Here we choose circular scatterers…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Matyas , R. Klages

We study from a statistical physics perspective the dynamics of a bouncing ball maintained in a chaotic regime thanks to collisions with a plate experiencing an aperiodic vibration. We analyze in details the energy exchanges between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-02 Jean-Yonnel Chastaing , Jean-Christophe Géminard , Eric Bertin

An analytical method for investigation of the evolution of dynamical systems {\it with independent on time accuracy} is developed for perturbed Hamiltonian systems. The error-free estimation using of computer algebra enables the application…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 A. V. Gurzadyan , A. A. Kocharyan

The chaotic properties of simple two-dimensional rotation-translation models are explored and simulated. The models are given in difference equation forms, while the corresponding differential equations systems are studied and the resulting…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christos H. Skiadas , Charilaos Skiadas

Evolutionary game theory has been successfully used to investigate the dynamics of systems, in which many entities have competitive interactions. From a physics point of view, it is interesting to study conditions under which a coordination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson

The Lindblad equation describes the dissipative time evolution of a density matrix that characterizes an open quantum system in contact with its environment. The widespread ensemble interpretation of a density matrix requires its time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Bernd Fernengel , Barbara Drossel

Have you ever played or watched a game of pool? If so, you have already seen a billiard system in action. In mathematics and physics, a billiard system describes a ball that moves in straight lines and bounces off walls. Despite these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Weiqi Chu , Matthew Dobson

A nonlinearly coupled system of bouncing balls is shown to exhibit features like self-organised-criticality (SOC) and punctuated equilibrium (PE) in suitable parameter domains. The temporal evolution of the non-stationary amplitudes is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-17 Kaushal Gianchandani , A. N. Sekar Iyengar , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The evolution of the luminosity distance in a contracting universe is studied. It is shown that for quite a lot of natural dynamical evolutions, its behavior is far from trivial and its value can even decrease with an increasing time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau , Flora Moulin

What features characterise complex system dynamics? Power laws and scale invariance of fluctuations are often taken as the hallmarks of complexity, drawing on analogies with equilibrium critical phenomena[1-3]. Here we argue that slow,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Anderson , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , L. P. Oliveira , Paolo Sibani

$Circuit~ Complexity$, a well known computational technique has recently become the backbone of the physics community to probe the chaotic behaviour and random quantum fluctuations of quantum fields. This paper is devoted to the study of…