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We investigate the role of the spin angular momentum of astrophysical black holes in controlling the special relativistic chaotic dynamics of test particles moving under the influence of a post-Newtonian pseudo-Kerr black hole potential,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Sankhasubhra Nag , Siddhartha Sinha , Deepika B. Ananda , Tapas K Das

Dissipationless N-body models of rotating galaxies, iso-energetic to a non-rotating model, are examined as regards the mass in regular and in chaotic motion. The values of their spin parameters $\lambda$ are near the value $\lambda=0.22$ of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 N. Voglis , I. Stavropoulos , C. Kalapotharakos

We consider two stable heteroclinic cycles rotating in opposite directions, coupled via diffusive terms. A complete synchronization in this system is impossible, and numerical exploration shows that chaos is abundant at low levels of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-14 Arkady Pikovsky , Alexander Nepomnyashchy

The chaotic phase of the tilted Bose-Hubbard model is identified as a function of energy, tilt strength and particle interaction, from the eigenstate structure and the statistical features of the energy spectrum. Our analysis reveals that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Pilar Martín Clavero , Alberto Rodríguez

A computational procedure that allows the detection of a new type of high-dimensional chaotic saddle in Hamiltonian systems with three degrees of freedom is presented. The chaotic saddle is associated with a so-called normally hyperbolic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Waalkens , A. Burbanks , S. Wiggins

Hypersensitivity to perturbation is a criterion for chaos based on the question of how much information about a perturbing environment is needed to keep the entropy of a Hamiltonian system from increasing. We demonstrate numerically that…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Schack , C. M. Caves

We study the competing order and chaos in a first-order quantum phase transition with a high barrier. The boson model Hamiltonian employed, interpolates between its U(5) (spherical) and SU(3) (deformed) limits. A classical analysis reveals…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-15 A. Leviatan , M. Macek

We study the motion of a spinning test particle in Schwarzschild spacetime, analyzing the Poincar\'e map and the Lyapunov exponent. We find chaotic behavior for a particle with spin higher than some critical value (e.g. $S_{cr} \sim 0.64…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Shingo Suzuki , Kei-ichi Maeda

Studies of dynamical stability (chaotic versus regular motion) in galactic dynamics often rely on static analytical models of the total gravitational potential. Potentials based upon self-consistent N-body simulations offer more realistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-08 Rubens E. G. Machado , T. Manos

We discuss the relevance of chaotic scattering in heavy--ion reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier. A model in two and three dimensions which takes into account rotational degrees of freedom is discussed both classically and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Baldo , E. G. Lanza , A. Rapisarda

The general theory of motion in the vicinity of a moving quantum nodal point (vortex) is studied in the framework of the de Broglie - Bohm trajectory method of quantum mechanics. Using an adiabatic approximation, we find that near any nodal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Efthymiopoulos , C. Kalapotharakos , G. Contopoulos

We identify a border between regular and chaotic quantum dynamics. The border is characterized by a power law decrease in the overlap between a state evolved under chaotic dynamics and the same state evolved under a slightly perturbed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. S. Weinstein , S. Lloyd , C. Tsallis

A system plus environment conservative model is used to characterize the nonlinear dynamics when the time averaged energy for the system particle starts to decay. The system particle dynamics is regular for low values of the $N$ environment…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-20 Cesar Manchein , Jane Rosa , Marcus W. Beims

This paper presents a systematic study of the chaotic dynamics of charged test particles around purely magnetically charged black holes immersed in a uniform external magnetic field within the framework of Einstein-ModMax theory. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Zijian Liu , Wenfu Cao

We investigate the orbits of compact binary systems during the final inspiral period before coalescence by integrating numerically the second-order post-Newtonian equations of motion. We include spin-orbit and spin-spin coupling terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Frederic A. Rasio

A three-dimensional dynamical model for a galaxy hosting a BL Lacertae object is constructed. The model consists of a logarithmic potential representing an elliptical host galaxy with a bulge of radius $c_b$ and a dense massive nucleus.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We classify orbits of stars that are bound to central black holes in galactic nuclei. The stars move under the combined gravitational influences of the black hole and the central star cluster. Within the sphere of influence of the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sridhar , J. Touma

A main feature of a chaotic quantum system is a rigid spectrum where the levels do not cross. We discuss how the presence of level repulsion in lattice many-body quantum systems can be detected from the analysis of their time evolution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-08 E. J. Torres-Herrera , Lea F. Santos

We show how the horizon geometry and entropy of a Semiclassical Black Hole can be reconstructed from a system of $N>>1$ horizonless conic singularities with average opening angle at the horizon $\langle \Theta \rangle=2\pi$. This conclusion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Andrea Addazi

In the framework of the semiclassical approach the universal spectral correlations in the Hamiltonian systems with classical chaotic dynamics can be attributed to the systematic correlations between actions of periodic orbits which (up to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 Boris Gutkin , Vladimir Al. Osipov