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We study quasi periodic and frequency locked states that can occur in a sinusoidally driven linear harmonic oscillator in the special relativistic regime. We show how the shift in natural frequency of the oscillator with increasing…

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A topological bifurcation in chaotic scattering is characterized by a sudden change in the topology of the infinite set of unstable periodic orbits embedded in the underlying chaotic invariant set. We uncover a scaling law for the fractal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adilson E. Motter , Ying-Cheng Lai

In this paper, we study different types of phase space structures which appear in the context of relativistic chaotic scattering. By using the relativistic version of the H\'{e}non-Heiles Hamiltonian, we numerically study the topology of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-09 Fernando Blesa , Juan D. Bernal , Jesus M. Seoane , Miguel AF Sanjuan

The chaotic dynamics of small-scale vorticity plays a key role in understanding and controlling turbulence, with direct implications for energy transfer, mixing, and coherent structure evolution. However, measuring or controlling its…

Frequency responses of multi-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems with weak forcing and damping can be studied as perturbations from their conservative limit. Specifically, recent results show how bifurcations near resonances can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Mattia Cenedese , George Haller

In this paper we study in detail the localized wave functions defined in Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 76}, 1613 (1994), in connection with the scarring effect of unstable periodic orbits in highly chaotic Hamiltonian system. These functions appear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. A. Wisniacki , F. Borondo , E. Vergini , R. M. Benito

We examine the sensitivity of wavefunction intensities in chaotic quantum systems to small changes in an arbitrary external perturbation. A universal scaling is proposed for all three Dyson ensembles and a novel theoretical approach is used…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. R. Mucciolo , B. D. Simons , A. V. Andreev , V. N. Prigodin

The effects of fluctuating boundaries on a superposition state of a quantum particle in a box is studied. We consider a model in one space dimension in which the initial state is a coherent superposition of two energy eigenstates. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 V. A. De Lorenci , L. H. Ford

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a prominent phenomenon in many natural and engineered noisy system, whereby the response to a periodic forcing is greatly amplified when the intensity of the noise is tuned to within a specific range of values.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-25 Valerio Lucarini

Chaos is an inherently dynamical phenomenon traditionally studied for trajectories that are either permanently erratic or transiently influenced by permanently erratic ones lying on a set of measure zero. The latter gives rise to the final…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-12 Adilson E. Motter , Marton Gruiz , Gyorgy Karolyi , Tamas Tel

We show for the first time that a {\it weak} perturbation in a Hamiltonian system may lead to an arbitrarily {\it wide} chaotic layer and {\it fast} chaotic transport. This {\it generic} effect occurs in any spatially periodic Hamiltonian…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Soskin , O. M. Yevtushenko , R. Mannella

We present numerical evidence to show that the wavefunctions of smooth classically chaotic Hamiltonian systems scarred by certain simple periodic orbits are exponentially localized in the space of unperturbed basis states. The degree of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Santhanam , V. B. Sheorey , A. Lakshminarayan

This study investigates how two- and three-wave configurations govern particle escape and transport in tokamak edge plasmas. Using a Hamiltonian model derived from drift-wave turbulence, we analyze test particle dynamics through Poincar\'e…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-26 P. Haerter , E. D. Leonel , R. L. Viana

Dynamical behaviors of a dissipative particle in a periodic potential subject to chaotic noise are reported. We discovered a macroscopic symmetry breaking effect of chaotic noise on a dissipative particle in a multi-stable systems emerging,…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Tsuyoshi Hondou , Yasuji Sawada

Our current understanding of quantum chaos in many-body quantum systems hinges on the random matrix theory(RMT) behavior of eigenstates and their energy level statistics. Although RMT has been remarkably successful in describing `coarse'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-05 Christopher M. Langlett , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

Distributions of eigenmodes are widely concerned in both bounded and open systems. In the realm of chaos, counting resonances can characterize the underlying dynamics (regular vs. chaotic), and is often instrumental to identify…

This paper summarises a numerical investigation of phase mixing in time-independent Hamiltonian systems that admit a coexistence of regular and chaotic phase space regions, allowing also for low amplitude perturbations idealised as periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henry E. Kandrup , Steven J. Novotny

We analyse the effect of intrinsic fluctuations on the properties of bistable stochastic systems with time scale separation operating under1 quasi-steady state conditions. We first formulate a stochastic generalisation of the quasi-steady…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Roberto de la Cruz , Pilar Guerrero , Fabian Spill , Tomás Alarcón

The experimental conditions leading to substantial reduction of backscattering decay instability threshold in ECRH experiments in toroidal devices are analyzed. It is shown that drastic decrease of threshold is provided by non monotonic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Z. Gusakov , A. Yu. Popov

Nonlinear dynamical systems, ranging from insect populations to lasers and chemical reactions, might exhibit sensitivity to small perturbations in their control parameters, resulting in uncertainties on the predictability of tunning…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-10 E. S. Medeiros , I. L. Caldas , M. S. Baptista