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We investigate dissipative dynamical systems under the influence of an external driving with two or more frequencies. Our main quantities of interest are long-time averages of expectation values which turn out to exhibit universal features.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 María Laura Olivera , Jesús Casado-Pascual , Sigmund Kohler

Diffusive shock acceleration at collisionless shocks remains the most likely process for accelerating particles in a variety of astrophysical sources. While the standard prediction for strong shocks is that the spectrum of accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Pierre Cristofari , Pasquale Blasi , Damiano Caprioli

Structural resonance involves the absorption of inertial loads by a tuned structural elasticity: a process playing a key role in a wide range of biological and technological systems, including many biological and bio-inspired locomotion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-07-20 Arion Pons , Tsevi Beatus

Consider a square random matrix with independent and identically distributed entries of mean zero and unit variance. We show that as the dimension tends to infinity, the spectral radius is equivalent to the square root of the dimension in…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Charles Bordenave , Djalil Chafaï , David García-Zelada

We study the electric properties of single-stranded DNA molecules with hairpin-like shapes in the presence of a magnetic flux. It is shown that the current amplitude can be modulated by the applied field. The details of the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juyeon Yi , Henri Orland

This article is dedicated to the following class of problems. Start with an $N\times N$ Hermitian matrix randomly picked from a matrix ensemble - the reference matrix. Applying a rank-$t$ perturbation to it, with $t$ taking the values $1\le…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Barbara Dietz , Holger Schanz , Uzy Smilansky , Hans Weidenmüller

A universal mechanism of emergence of synchronized low frequency brain wave field activity is presented as a result of nonlinear coupling with flat frequency neuronal forcing. The mechanism utilizes a unique dispersion properties of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Vitaly L. Galinsky , Lawrence R. Frank

A major attraction of diffusive shock acceleration is the prediction of power-law spectra for energetic particle distributions. However, this property is not fundamental to the theory. We demonstrate that for planar shocks with an oblique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Asma Shirin T , Brian Reville , Nils W. Schween , Florian Schulze , John G. Kirk

We study pattern-forming dissipative systems in growing domains. We characterize classes of boundary conditions that allow for defect-free growth and derive universal scaling laws for the wavenumber in the bulk of the domain. Scalings are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-07 Ryan Goh , Rajendra Beekie , Daniel Matthias , Joshua Nunley , Arnd Scheel

An important design principle for biological oscillators divides the oscillators into two classes: fixed frequency, variable amplitude and fixed amplitude, variable frequency. Because of the interplay of nonlinearity and feedback, both…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Sidhanta Mohanty , Shaunak Sen

In the theory of open quantum systems, spectral densities are key quantities for modeling the dynamics and spectroscopic properties of the system under investigation. In the case of light-harvesting complexes, they encode the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sayan Maity , Tristan A. Mauck , Ulrich Kleinekathöfer

We consider a quasi one-dimensional chain of N chaotic scattering elements with periodic boundary conditions. The classical dynamics of this system is dominated by diffusion. The quantum theory, on the other hand, depends crucially on…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Dittrich , B. Mehlig , H. Schanz , U. Smilansky

The paper uses mesoscopic, non-linear lattice dynamics based (Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois, PBD) modeling to describe thermal properties of DNA below and near the denaturation temperature. Computationally efficient notation is introduced for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-18 Nikos Theodorakopoulos

We study spectral properties of quantum radiation of ultimately short duration. In particular, we introduce a continuous multimode squeezing operator for the description of subcycle pulses of entangled photons generated by a coherent-field…

Simple and physically transparent equations for the linear response of layered superconductors with d-wave symmetry of the order parameter are derived by means of the quasiclassic kinetic theory of superconductivity. Responses to solenoidal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 S. N. Artemenko , A. G. Kobelkov

We report on a new collective phenomenon in metamaterials: spectral line collapse with increasing number of the unit cell resonators (meta-molecules). Resembling the behaviour of exotic states of matter, such as Bose-Einstein condensates of…

Over-parameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) with sufficient capacity to memorize random noise can achieve excellent generalization performance, challenging the bias-variance trade-off in classical learning theory. Recent studies claimed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xiao Zhang , Haoyi Xiong , Dongrui Wu

We present a self-contained theory for the mechanical response of DNA in single molecule experiments. Our model is based on a 1D continuum description of the DNA molecule and accounts both for its elasticity and for DNA-DNA electrostatic…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 N. Clauvelin , B. Audoly , S. Neukirch

Understanding the asymptotic behavior of reaction-diffusion (RD) systems is crucial for modeling processes ranging from species coexistence in ecology to biochemical interactions within cells. In this work, we analyze RD systems in which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Carlos Barajas , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Domitilla Del Vecchio

Triggered by a controversy surrounding a universal behaviour of the power spectrum in quantum systems exhibiting regular classical dynamics, we focus on a model of random diagonal matrices (RDM), often associated with the Poisson spectral…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-18 Roman Riser , Eugene Kanzieper