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The method of adiabatic invariants for time dependent Hamiltonians is applied to a massive scalar field in a de Sitter space-time. The scalar field ground state, its Fock space and coherent states are constructed and related to the particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bertoni , F. Finelli , G. Venturi

We address the occurrence of narrow planetary rings under the interaction with shepherds. Our approach is based on a Hamiltonian framework of non-interacting particles where open motion (escape) takes place, and includes the quasi-periodic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Benet , O. Merlo

Invariant manifolds are the skeleton of the chaotic dynamics in Hamiltonian systems. In Celestial Mechanics, for instance, these geometrical structures are applied to a multitude of physical and practical problems, such as to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-10 Vitor Martins de Oliveira

Totally symmetric arbitrary spin massless and massive free fields in flat and AdS spaces and conformal fields in flat space are studied. Extended gauge invariant hamiltonian action for such fields is obtained. The action is constructed out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-16 R. R. Metsaev

A different approach will be presented that aims to scrutinize the phase-space trajectories of a general class of Hamiltonian systems with regard to their regular or irregular behavior. The approach is based on the `energy-second-moment…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Jürgen Struckmeier , Andreas Redelbach

Hamiltonian tridiagonal matrices characterized by multi-fractal spectral measures in the family of Iterated Function Systems can be constructed by a recursive technique here described. We prove that these Hamiltonians are almost-periodic.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Giorgio Mantica

The Hamiltonian dynamics of chains of nonlinearly coupled particles is numerically investigated in two and three dimensions. Simple, off-lattice homopolymer models are used to represent the interparticle potentials. Time averages of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Mossa , Marco Pettini , Cecilia Clementi

We study the drift of slow variables in a slow-fast Hamiltonian system with several fast and slow degrees of freedom. For any periodic trajectory of the fast subsystem with the frozen slow variables we define an action. For a family of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 N. Brännström , V. Gelfreich

We study the phase space geometry associated with index 2 saddles of a potential energy surface and its influence on reaction dynamics for $n$ degree-of-freedom (DoF) Hamiltonian systems. For index 1 saddles of potential energy surfaces…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gregory S. Ezra , Stephen Wiggins

We study the effect of changes in the parameters of a two-dimensional potential energy surface on the phase space structures relevant for chemical reaction dynamics. The changes in the potential energy are representative of chemical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Wenyang Lyu , Shibabrat Naik , Stephen Wiggins

We present a new variational principle for the gyrokinetic system, similar to the Maxwell-Vlasov action presented in Ref. 1. The variational principle is in the Eulerian frame and based on constrained variations of the phase space fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 J. Squire , H. Qin , W. M. Tang , C. Chandre

In systems where one coordinate undergoes periodic oscillation, the net displacement in any other coordinate over a single period is shown to be given by differentiation of the action integral associated with the oscillating coordinate.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Rory J. Perkins , Paul M. Bellan

We construct an effective Hamiltonian via Monte Carlo from a given action. This Hamiltonian describes physics in the low energy regime. We test it by computing spectrum, wave functions and thermodynamical observables (average energy and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Jirari , H. Kröger , X. Q. Luo , K. J. M. Moriarty

The well known butterfly effect got its nomenclature from its two wings geometrical structure in phase space. There are chaotic dynamics from simple one-wing to multiple-wings complex structures in phase space. In this communication we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-11 Tanmayee Patra , Biplab Ganguli

A dynamical system framework is used to describe transport processes in plasmas embedded in a magnetic field. For periodic systems with one degree of freedom the Poincar\'e map provides a splitting of the phase space into regions where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 M. V. Falessi , F. Pegoraro , T. J. Schep

Generic Hamiltonian systems have a mixed phase space, where classically disjoint regions of regular and chaotic motion coexist. We present an iterative method to construct an integrable approximation, which resembles the regular dynamics of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-06 Clemens Löbner , Steffen Löck , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick

This paper is a review of results which have been recently obtained by applying mathematical concepts drawn, in particular, from differential geometry and topology, to the physics of Hamiltonian dynamical systems with many degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lapo Casetti , Marco Pettini , E. G. D. Cohen

The aim of this work is to provide an analytical model to characterize the equilibrium points and the phase space associated with the singly-averaged dynamics caused by the planetary oblateness coupled with the solar radiation pressure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Elisa Maria Alessi , Camilla Colombo , Alessandro Rossi

We present a method to control transport in Hamiltonian systems. We provide an algorithm - based on a perturbation of the original Hamiltonian localized in phase space - to design small control terms that are able to create isolated…

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