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We develop a statistical theory of waveform shaping of incident waves that aim to efficiently deliver energy at weakly lossy targets which are embedded inside chaotic enclosures. Our approach utilizes the universal features of chaotic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-25 Huanan Li , Suwun Suwunnarat , Tsampikos Kottos

Quantized, compact graphs were shown to be excellent paradigms for quantum chaos in bounded systems. Connecting them with leads to infinity we show that they display all the features which characterize scattering systems with an underlying…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Tsampikos Kottos , U. Smilansky

We consider the internal dynamics of the polymer molecule which is injected in the chaotic flow with strong mean shear component. The flow geometry corresponds to the recent experiments on the elastic turbulence (Groisman, Steinberg 2000).…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Turitsyn

Chaotic instanton approach is used to describe dynamical tunneling in kicked double well system. Effective Hamiltonian for the kicked system is obtained using matrix expansion formula for operator exponent and exploited to construct an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-02-16 V. I. Kuvshinov , A. V. Kuzmin , V. A. Piatrou

In this article, we attempt to study the possible link between the dynamics of a circle map and the caustics of its iterations. The attention is on a geometrically defined off-center reflections, which, coincidentally, is also a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Kwok-keung Au , Xiao-song Lin

The motion of beams in particle accelerators is dominated by a plethora of non-linear effects which can enhance chaotic motion and limit their performance. The application of advanced non-linear dynamics methods for detecting and correcting…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-20 Yannis Papaphilippou

Recent work suggests unstable recurrent solutions of the equations governing fluid flow can play an important role in structuring the dynamics of turbulence. Here we present a method for detecting intervals of time where turbulence…

Dynamical fluctuations or rare events associated with atypical trajectories in chaotic maps due to specific initial conditions can crucially determine their fate, as the may lead to stability islands or regions in phase space otherwise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-31 Ricardo Gutiérrez , Adrián Canella-Ortiz , Carlos Pérez-Espigares

We present an inverse method to construct large classes of chaotic invariant sets together with their exact statistics. The associated dynamical systems are characterized by a probability distribution and a two-form. While our emphasis is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zachary Guralnik

We investigate a model of high-dimensional dynamical variables with all-to-all interactions that are random and non-reciprocal. We characterize its phase diagram and show that the model can exhibit chaotic dynamics. We show that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-15 Samantha J. Fournier , Alessandro Pacco , Valentina Ros , Pierfrancesco Urbani

We discuss the statistics of tunnelling rates in the presence of chaotic classical dynamics. This applies to resonance widths in chaotic metastable wells and to tunnelling splittings in chaotic symmetric double wells. The theory is based on…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-01-23 Stephen C. Creagh , Niall D. Whelan

We study the nature of motion in a 3D potential composed of perturbed elliptic oscillators. Our technique is to use the results obtained from the 2D potential in order to find the initial conditions generating regular or chaotic orbits in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-06-26 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

The effective numerical method is developed performing the test of the hyperbolicity of chaotic dynamics. The method employs ideas of algorithms for covariant Lyapunov vectors but avoids their explicit computation. The outcome is a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-28 Pavel V. Kuptsov

Chaotic systems arise naturally in Statistical Mechanics and in Fluid Dynamics. A paradigm for their modelization are smooth hyperbolic systems. Are there consequences that can be drawn simply by assuming that a system is hyperbolic? here…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-26 Giovanni Gallavotti

Recent experimental and theoretical studies on the magnetization dynamics driven by an electric current have uncovered a number of unprecedented rich dynamic phenomena. We predict an intrinsic chaotic dynamics that has not been previously…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-27 Z. Yang , S. Zhang , Y. Charles Li

Nonlinear dynamics of a bouncing ball moving in gravitational field and colliding with a moving limiter is considered. Displacement of the limiter is a quadratic function of time. Several dynamical modes, such as fixed points, 2 - cycles…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-12-12 Andrzej Okninski , Boguslaw Radziszewski

Unstable nonchaotic solutions embedded in the chaotic attractor can provide significant new insight into chaotic dynamics of both low- and high-dimensional systems. In particular, in turbulent fluid flows, such unstable solutions are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Greg Byrne , Christopher D. Marcotte , Roman O. Grigoriev

We develop the semiclassical method of complex trajectories in application to chaotic dynamical tunneling. First, we suggest a systematic numerical technique for obtaining complex tunneling trajectories by the gradual deformation of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. G. Levkov , A. G. Panin , S. M. Sibiryakov

We consider the dynamical problem for a system of three particles in which the inter-particle forces are given as the gradient of a Lennard-Jones type potential. Furthermore we assume that the three particle array is subject to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Pablo V. Negron-Marrero

Particle sedimentation in the vicinity of a fixed horizontal vortex with time-dependent intensity can be chaotic, provided gravity is sufficient to displace the particle cloud while the vortex is off or weak. This "stretch, sediment and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-23 J. R. Angilella