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Motivated by empirical observations of algebraic duplicated sequence length distributions in a broad range of natural genomes, we analytically formulate and solve a class of simple discrete duplication/substitution models that generate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 M. V. Koroteev , J. Miller

We derive general evolution equations describing the ensemble-average quantum dynamics generated by disordered Hamiltonians. The disorder average affects the coherence of the evolution and can be accounted for by suitably tailored effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Chahan Kropf , Clemens Gneiting , Andreas Buchleitner

We discuss the effect of heterogeneity on the chaotic properties of the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois nonlinear model of DNA. Results are presented for the maximum Lyapunov exponent and the deviation vector distribution. Different compositions of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-27 Malcolm Hillebrand , George Kalosakas , Adrian Schwellnus , Charalampos Skokos

In the crowded eukaryotic nucleus, euchromatin and heterochromatin segregate into distinct compartments, a phenomenon often attributed to homotypic interactions mediated by liquid liquid phase separation of chromatin associated proteins.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Luming Meng , Boping Liu , Qiong Luo

In population genetics, mutation rate is often treated as a homogeneous parameter across the genome. Empirical evidence, however, shows systematic variation across genomic contexts associated with chromatin organization and epigenomic…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-05 Elisa Heinrich-Mora , Marcus W. Feldman

Recent studies of DNA sequence of letters A, C, G and T exhibit the inverse power law form. Inverse power-law form of the power spectra of fractal space-time fluctuations is generic to the dynamical systems in nature and is identified as…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Selvam

It is shown, using results of recent direct numerical simulations, laboratory experiments and atmospheric measurements, that buoyancy driven turbulence exhibits a broad diversity of the types of distributed chaos with its stretched…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 A. Bershadskii

This article is the written version of a talk delivered at the Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Fundamental Interactions in Tashkent and starts with an introduction into quantum chaos and its relationship to classical chaos. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald Markum , Willibald Plessas , Rainer Pullirsch , Bianka Sengl , Robert F. Wagenbrunn

Population dynamics in random ecological networks are investigated by analyzing a simple deterministic equation. It is found that a sequence of abrupt changes of populations punctuating quiescent states characterize the long time behavior.…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Shin-ichi Sasa , Tsuyoshi Chawanya

We discuss recent results obtained for the Hamiltonian Mean Field model. The model describes a system of N fully-coupled particles in one dimension and shows a second-order phase transition from a clustered phase to a homogeneous one when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Latora , A. Rapisarda , S. Ruffo

Dynamical chaos is a term that encompasses a wide range of nonlinear phenomena such as turbulence, neuronal avalanches, weather patterns, and many others. However, despite much work in the field of chaos, its fundamental physical origin…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-05 Igor V. Ovchinnikov , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Low-dimensional yet rich dynamics often emerge in the brain. Examples include oscillations and chaotic dynamics during sleep, epilepsy, and voluntary movement. However, a general mechanism for the emergence of low dimensional dynamics…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-29 Wilten Nicola , Peter Hellyer , Sue Ann Campbell , Claudia Clopath

Complementary strands in DNA double helix show temporary fluctuational openings which are essential to biological functions such as transcription and replication of the genetic information. Such large amplitude fluctuations, known as the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 Marco Zoli

In this paper, we explain why the chaotic model (CM) of Bahi and Michel (2008) accurately simulates gene mutations over time. First, we demonstrate that the CM model is a truly chaotic one, as defined by Devaney. Then, we show that…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-23 Jacques M. Bahi , Christophe Guyeux , Antoine Perasso

Randomness generation through quantum-chaotic evolution underpins foundational questions in statistical mechanics and applications across quantum information science, including benchmarking, tomography, metrology, and demonstrations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-01 Souradeep Ghosh , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

Cellular biology exists embedded in a world dominated by random dynamics and chance. Many vital molecules and pieces of cellular machinery diffuse within cells, moving along random trajectories as they collide with the other biomolecular…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2012-08-13 Iain G. Johnston

We investigate the relation between the chaotic dynamics and the hierarchical phase-space structure of generic Hamiltonian systems. We demonstrate that even in ideal situations when the phase space is dominated by an exactly self-similar…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Weiss , L. Hufnagel , R. Ketzmerick

Consider a classically chaotic system which is described by a Hamiltonian H_0. At t=0 the Hamiltonian undergoes a sudden-change H_0 -> H. We consider the quantum-mechanical spreading of the evolving energy distribution, and argue that it…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsampikos Kottos , Doron Cohen

Shapere and Wilczek ( Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160402 and 200402 (2012)) have recently described certain singular Lagrangian systems which display spontaneous breaking of time translation symmetry. We begin by considering the standard Lienard…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-04-26 A Ghose-Choudhury , Partha Guha

We investigate the chaotic behaviour of multiparticle systems, in particular DNA and graphene models, by applying methods of nonlinear dynamics. Using symplectic integration techniques, we present an extensive analysis of chaos in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-23 Malcolm Hillebrand