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Instabilities of equilibrium quantum mechanics are common and well-understood. They are manifested for example in phase transitions, where a quantum system becomes so sensitive to perturbations that a symmetry can be spontaneously broken.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Jasper van Wezel

Fluctuations of observables as functions of time, or "fluctuation patterns", are studied in a chaotic microscopically reversible system that has irreversibly reached a nonequilibrium stationary state. Supposing that during a certain, long…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-10-08 G. Gallavotti

Traditional studies of chaos in conservative and driven dissipative systems have established a correspondence between sensitive dependence on initial conditions and fractal basin boundaries, but much less is known about the relation between…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-20 Xiaowen Chen , Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

It is revealed that a special kind of Poisson stable point, which we call an unpredictable point, gives rise to the existence of chaos in the quasi-minimal set. The existing definitions of chaos are formulated in sets of motions. This is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Marat Akhmet , Mehmet Onur Fen

We search for steady states in a class of fluctuating and driven physical systems that exhibit sustained currents. We find that the physical concept of a steady state, well known for systems at equilibrium, must be generalised to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-15 Tanniemola B. Liverpool

The information processing capacity of a complex dynamical system is reflected in the partitioning of its state space into disjoint basins of attraction, with state trajectories in each basin flowing towards their corresponding attractor.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Krawitz , Ilya Shmulevich

The chaotic hypothesis has several implications which have generated interest in the literature because of their generality and because a few exact predictions are among them. However its application to Physics problems requires attention…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Bonetto , G. Gallavotti , A. Giuliani , F. Zamponi

This article examines the subtle relationship between chaos and randomness, two concepts that, although they refer to seemingly unpredictable phenomenon, are based on fundamentally different principles. Chaos manifests in deterministic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Mohamed El Ouafi , Hajar Ahalli , Abderrahim Aslimani , Kaoutar Lamrini Uahabi

The problem of the insensitivity of the macroscopic behavior of any thermodynamical system to partitioning generates a bias between the reproducibility of its macroscopic behavior viewed as the simplest form of causality and its long-term…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria K. Koleva

We study the stability of deterministic systems given sequences of large, jump-like perturbations. Our main result is to dervie a lower bound for the probability of the system to remain in the basin, given that perturbations are rare…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-26 Paul Schultz , Frank Hellmann , Kevin N. Webster , Jürgen Kurths

Chaotic scattering in open Hamiltonian systems is a topic of fundamental interest in physics, which has been mainly studied in the purely conservative case. However, the effect of weak perturbations in this kind of systems has been an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-19 Alexandre R. Nieto , Jesús M. Seoane , J. E. Alvarellos , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

Turbulence, namely, irregular fluctuations in space and time characterize fluid flows in general and atmospheric flows in particular.The irregular,i.e., nonlinear space-time fluctuations on all scales contribute to the unpredictable nature…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Pethkar , A. M. Selvam

Entropy is one of the key thermodynamic variables reflecting changes in the state of matter. Unlike other thermodynamic variables, it is well-defined also for nonequilibrium steady states through its relation to information. Applying this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

Chaos is an active research subject in the fields of science in recent years. it is a complex and an erratic behavior that is possible in very simple systems. in the present day, the chaotic behavior can be observed in experiments. Many…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 Mrs. T. Theivasanthi

Classical chaos is marked by an extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, where infinitesimally close trajectories separate exponentially over time. In quantum mechanics, however, unitary evolution and the uncertainty principle preclude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Sanchit Srivastava , Shohini Ghose

The universal dynamic uncertainty, discovered in Parts I and II of this series of papers for the case of Hamiltonian quantum systems, is further specified to reveal the hierarchical structure of levels of dynamically redundant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

We consider a dynamical system which has a stable attractor and which is perturbed by an additive noise. Under some quite typical conditions, the fluctuations from the attractor are intermittent and have a probability distribution with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-23 Michael Wilkinson , Robin Guichardaz , Marc Pradas , Alain Pumir

Given entropy's central role in multiple areas of physics and science, one important task is to develop a systematic and unifying approach to defining entropy. Games of chance become a natural candidate for characterising the uncertainty of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Sarah Brandsen , Isabelle Jianing Geng , Gilad Gour

Fluctuational transitions between two co-existing chaotic attractors, separated by a fractal basin boundary, are studied in a discrete dynamical system. It is shown that the mechanism for such transitions is determined by a hierarchy of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. N. Silchenko , S. Beri , D. G. Luchinsky , P. V. E. McClintock

Disorder and noise in physical systems often disrupt spatial and temporal regularity, yet chaotic systems reveal how order can emerge from unpredictable behavior. Complex networks, spatial analogs of chaos, exhibit disordered, non-Euclidean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Pablo Villegas