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We investigate the ability of millimetric walking droplets to tunnel between spatially-structured cavities. By synthesizing experimental and theoretical analysis, we provide a comprehensive framework for droplet tunneling mechanics in three…

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We propose a quasi-particle description for the hierarchical equations of motion formalism for quantum dissipative dynamics systems. Not only it provides an alternative mathematical means to the existing formalism, the new protocol…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-14 Hou-Dao Zhang , Jian Xu , Rui-Xue Xu , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan

We report an experimental study of liquid drops moving against gravity, when placed on a vertically vibrating inclined plate, which is partially wetted by the drop. The frequency of vibrations ranges from 30 to 200 Hz, and, above a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-09-12 P. Brunet , J. Eggers , R. D. Deegan

We describe an experiment dedicated to the study of the trajectories of a ball bouncing randomly on a vibrating plate. The system was originally used, considering a sinusoidal vibration, to illustrate period doubling and the route to chaos.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 Jean-Yonnel Chastaing , Eric Bertin , Jean-Christophe Géminard

We address the existence and dynamics of one-dimensional harmonically confined quantum droplets, appearing in two-component mixtures by deploying a nonperturbative approach. We find that, in symmetric homonuclear settings, beyond…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-24 I. A. Englezos , S. I. Mistakidis , P. Schmelcher

Interfacial instability would be aroused on a spherical liquid droplet when it is subject to external vertical vibration. In this paper, a linear analysis was conducted on this instability problem. The polar-angle dependent acceleration in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-23 Yikai Li , Kun Wu , Dehua Liu , Ru Xi

Vertically vibrating a liquid bath at two frequencies, $f$ and $f/2$, having a relative phase difference $\Delta\phi_0$ can give rise to self-propelled superwalking droplets on the liquid surface. We have numerically investigated such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-21 Rahil N. Valani , Anja C. Slim , Tapio P. Simula

We numerically study the dynamics of quasi-two dimensional cholesteric liquid crystal droplets in the presence of a time-dependent electric field, rotating at constant angular velocity. A surfactant sitting at droplet interface is also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-13 F. Fadda , A. Lamura , A. Tiribocchi

The study of quantum thermodynamics is key to the development of quantum thermal machines. In contrast to most of the previous proposals based on discrete strokes, here we consider a working substance that is permanently coupled to two or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Heather Leitch , Nicolò Piccione , Bruno Bellomo , Gabriele De Chiara

We study classical and quantum dynamics of a kicked relativistic particle confined in a one dimensional box. It is found that in classical case for chaotic motion the average kinetic energy grows in time, while for mixed regime the growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. R. Yusupov , D. M. Otajanov , V. E. Eshniyazov , D. U. Matrasulov

We explore theoretically the complex dynamics and emergent behaviors of spinning spheres immersed in viscous fluid. The particles are coupled to each-other via the fluid in which they are suspended: each particle disturbs the surrounding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-18 Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

The settling dynamics of spherical and elliptical particles in a viscous Newtonian fluid are investigated numerically using a finite difference technique. The terminal velocity for spherical particles is calculated for different system…

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We investigate the existence and stability of discrete breathers in a chain of masses connected by linear springs and subjected to vibro-impact on-site potentials. The latter are comprised of harmonic springs and rigid constraints limiting…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-07-04 Nathan Perchikov , O. V. Gendelman

Optical tweezers setup is often used to probe the motion of individual tracer particle, which promotes the study of relaxation dynamics of a generic process confined in a harmonic potential. We uncover the dependence of ensemble- and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng

This paper investigates the dynamics of a particle orbiting around a rotating homogeneous cube, and shows fruitful results that have implications for examining the dynamics of orbits around non-spherical celestial bodies. This study can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-25 Xiaodong Liu , Hexi Baoyin , Xingrui Ma

We investigate the qualitative characteristics of a test particle attracted to an irregular elongated body, modeled as a non-homogeneous straight segment with a variable linear density. By deriving the potential function in closed form, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-22 E. Martínez , J. Vidarte , J. L. Zapata

In this work, we provide two complementary perspectives for the (spectral) stability of solitary traveling waves in Hamiltonian nonlinear dynamical lattices, of which the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam and the Toda lattice are prototypical examples. One…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-20 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein , H. Xu

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…

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 propose a generic model for thin films and shallow drops of a polar active liquid that have a free surface and are in contact with a solid substrate. The model couples evolution equations for the film height and the local polarization…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-20 Sarah Trinschek , Fenna Stegemerten , Karin John , Uwe Thiele