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Low-frequency molecular fluctuations in the translational nonequilibrium zone of one-dimensional strong shock waves are characterised for the first time in a kinetic collisional framework in the Mach number range $2\le M\le 10$. Our…

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In various models and systems involving the escape of periodically forced particle from the potential well, a common pattern is observed. Namely, the minimal forcing amplitude required for the escape exhibits sharp minimum for the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-31 O. V. Gendelman , G. Karmi

We use tools from nonlinear dynamics to the detailed analysis of cold atom experiments. A powerful example is provided by the recent concept of basin entropy which allows to quantify the final state unpredictability that results from the…

We present a theoretical investigation of the stochastic dynamics of a damped particle in a tilted periodic potential with a double well per period. By applying the matrix continued fraction technique to the Fokker-Planck equation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-15 Martin Žonda , Wolfgang Belzig , Edward Goldobin , Tomáš Novotný

When placed in parallel magnetic and electric fields, the electron trajectories of a classical hydrogen atom are chaotic. The classical escape rate of such a system can be computed with classical trajectory Monte Carlo techniques, but these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Ethan T. Custodio , Sulimon Sattari , Kevin A. Mitchell

Fractal basin boundaries provide an important means of characterizing chaotic systems. We apply these ideas to general relativity, where other properties such as Lyapunov exponents are difficult to define in an observer independent manner.…

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We numerically investigate the orbital dynamics of a two-dimensional galactic model, emphasizing the influence of stable and unstable manifolds on the evolution of orbits. In our analysis we use evaluations of the system's Lagrangian…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Dylan Theron , Charalampos Skokos

Fracton emerges from strongly interacting many-body systems whose excitations, referred to as sub-dimensional particles, have restricted mobility or kinetic motions. These entities have garnered significant interest due to their…

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Basins generated by a noninvertible mapping formed by two symmetrically coupled logistic maps are studied when the only parameter \lambda of the system is modified. Complex patterns on the plane are visualised as a consequence of basins'…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Daniele Fournier-Prunaret

Noise-induced escape from a metastable state of a dynamical system is studied close to a saddle-node bifurcation point, but in the region where the system remains underdamped. The activation energy of escape scales as a power of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. I. Dykman , I. B. Schwartz , M. Shapiro

In four-dimensional symplectic maps complex instability of periodic orbits is possible, which cannot occur in the two-dimensional case. We investigate the transition from stable to complex unstable dynamics of a fixed point under parameter…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jonas Stöber , Arnd Bäcker

Deterministic diffusive systems such as the periodic Lorentz gas, multi-baker map, as well as spatially periodic systems of interacting particles, have non-equilibrium stationary states with fractal properties when put in contact with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-28 Felipe Barra , Pierre Gaspard , Thomas Gilbert

Liquid-gas phase coexistence in a boundary-driven diffusive system is studied by analyzing fluctuating hydrodynamics of a density field defined on a one-dimensional lattice with a space interval $\Lambda$. When an interface width $\ell$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-28 Shin-ichi Sasa , Naoko Nakagawa

Fractals emerge everywhere in nature, exhibiting intricate geometric complexities through the self-organizing patterns that span across multiple scales. Here, we investigate beyond steady-states the interplay between this geometry and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-19 Trung V. Phan , Truong H. Cai , Van H. Do

We consider a stochastic environment with two time scales and outline a general theory that compares two methods to reduce the dimension of the original system. The first method involves the computation of the underlying deterministic…

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The Copenhagen case of the circular restricted three-body problem with oblate primary bodies is numerically investigated by exploring the Newton-Raphson basins of convergence, related to the out-of-plane equilibrium points. The evolution of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We show the existence of drifting orbits for certain perturbations of non-convex Hamiltonian systems with several degrees of freedom. These orbits remain in the vicinity of resonant surfaces where the action variables can undergo changes…

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We present a novel path-integral method for the determination of time-dependent and time-averaged reaction rates in multidimensional, periodically driven escape problems at weak thermal noise. The so obtained general expressions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jörg Lehmann , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

The escape rate of a particle over a fluctuating barrier in a double well potential exhibits resonance at an optimum value of correlation time of fluctuation. This has been shown to be important in several variants of kinetic model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Debashis Barik , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray