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Classically, the dynamics in a non-globally hyperbolic spacetime is ill posed. Previously, a prescription was given for defining dynamics in static spacetimes in terms of a second order operator acting on a Hilbert space defined on static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Itai Seggev

A numerical integration method for guiding-center orbits of charged particles in toroidal fusion devices with three-dimensional field geometry is described. Here, high order interpolation of electromagnetic fields in space is replaced by a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 M. Eder , C. G. Albert , L. M. P. Bauer , S. V. Kasilov , W. Kernbichler

A generic data-assisted control architecture within the port-Hamiltonian framework is proposed, introducing a physically meaningful observable that links conservative dynamics to all actuation, dissipation, and disturbance channels. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Mostafa Eslami , Maryam Babazadeh

Dynamics of the magnetospheric plasma configuration intrinsically features intermittent slow and fast phases. The fast transition is a nonlinear process, loss of equilibrium which ends up the slow quasi-static evolution. The process is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Alexey Kropotkin

After developing a scattering theory for grazing collisions in general noncanonical phase spaces, we introduce a guiding center collision operator in five-dimensional phase space designed for plasma regimes characterized by long wavelengths…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Naoki Sato , Philip J. Morrison

We analyze the dynamics of a classical particle in a spatially periodic potential under the influence of a periodic in time uniform force. It was shown in [S.Flach, O.Yevtushenko, Y. Zolotaryuk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2358 (2000)] that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-11 A. P. Itin , A. I. Neishtadt

We obtain a covariant decomposition of the motion of a relativistic charged particle into parallel motion and perpendicular gyration, and transform to guiding-center coordinates using Lie transforms. The natural guiding-center Poisson…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce M. Boghosian

The equations of motion for electromechanical systems are traced back to the fundamental Lagrangian of particles and electromagnetic fields, via the Darwin Lagrangian. When dissipative forces can be neglected the systems are conservative…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hanno Essen

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in modelling and computation of physical systems with neural networks. Hamiltonian systems are an elegant and compact formalism in classical mechanics, where the dynamics is fully determined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Elena Celledoni , Andrea Leone , Davide Murari , Brynjulf Owren

It is argued that the world is a dissipative dynamic system, a phase flow of which is formed by conformally-symplectic mapping. The key assumption is that the concept of energy in microcosm makes sense only for the steady motions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-04-08 A. P. Alexandrov

We consider a system of two linear and linearly coupled oscillators with ideal impact constraints. Primary resonant energy exchange is investigated by analysis of the slow-flow using the action-angle (AA) formalism. Exact inversion of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-15 Nathan Perchikov , O. V. Gendelman

The first computation of a spin foam dynamics that provides a test of the quantum equations of motions of gravity is presented. Specifically, a triangulation that includes an inner edge is treated. The computation leverages the recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Seth K. Asante , Bianca Dittrich , Hal M. Haggard

We study the dynamics of a particle in continuous time and space, the displacement of which is governed by an internal degree of freedom (spin). In one definite limit, the so-called quantum random walk is recovered but, although quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Claude Aslangul

The reduced dynamics formalism has recently emerged as a powerful tool to study the dynamics of non-equilibrium quantum impurity models in strongly correlated regimes. Examples include the non-equilibrium Anderson impurity model near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Guy Cohen , Eli Y. Wilner , Eran Rabani

The relaxation dynamics of a model fluid of platelike colloidal particles is investigated by means of a phenomenological dynamic density functional theory. The model fluid approximates the particles within the Zwanzig model of restricted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 Markus Bier , Rene van Roij

We consider the dynamics of a droplet on a vibrating fluid bath. This hydrodynamic quantum analog system is shown to elicit the canonical behavior of damped-driven systems, including a period doubling route to chaos. By approximating the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Aminur Rahman , J. Nathan Kutz

Dynamic facilitation theory assumes short-ranged dynamic constraints to be the essential feature of supercooled liquids and draws much of its conclusions from the study of kinetically constrained models. While deceptively simple, these…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-12 Thomas Speck , David Chandler

We study 3D chaotic dynamics through an analysis of transport in a granular flow in a half-full spherical tumbler rotated sequentially about two orthogonal axes (a bi-axial "blinking" tumbler). The flow is essentially quasi-2D in any…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Ivan C. Christov , Richard M. Lueptow , Julio M. Ottino , Rob Sturman

The guiding center (GC) Lagrangian in Boozer coordinates for toroidally confined plasmas can be cast into canonical form by eliminating a term containing the covariant component $B_{\Psi_{\rm P}}$ of the magnetic field vector with respect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Andreas Bierwage , Roscoe B. White , Akinobu Matsuyama

The spin coherent state path integral describing the dynamics of a spin-1/2-system in a magnetic field of arbitrary time-dependence is considered. Defining the path integral as the limit of a Wiener regularized expression, the semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adrian Alscher , Hermann Grabert