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The stability against perturbations of a dynamical system conserving a generalized phase-space volume is studied by exploiting the similarity between statistical physics formalism and that of ergodic theory. A general continuity theorem is…

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We consider Langevin equation with dichotomously fluctuating diffusivity, where the diffusion coefficient changes dichotomously in time, in order to study fluctuations of time-averaged observables in temporary heterogeneous diffusion…

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Dissipation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in dynamical systems encountered in nature because no finite system is fully isolated from its environment. In optical systems, a key challenge facing any technological application has traditionally…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-20 Konstantinos G. Makris , Li Ge , Hakan E. Tureci

We propose a novel mechanism to test time variation of the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GWs) in light of GWs astronomy. As the stochastic GWs experience the whole history of cosmic expansion, they encode potential observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chunshan Lin , Bo Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

The energy of an elastic manifold in a random landscape at T=0 is shown numerically to obey a probability distribution that depends on size of the box it is put into. If the extent of the spatial fluctuations of the manifold is much less…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 K. P. J. Kytölä , E. T. Seppälä , M. J. Alava

Starting from the wave equation for a medium with material properties that vary periodically, we study a system of recurrence relations that describe propagation of wave packets that oscillate on the microscale (i.e. on lengths of the order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Kirill Cherednichenko

We explore the propagation and transformation of electromagnetic waves through spatially homogeneous yet smoothly time-dependent media within the framework of classical electrodynamics. By modelling the smooth transition, occurring during a…

We present an analysis of enhanced wave transmission through random media with mirror symmetry about a reflecting barrier. The mathematical model is the acoustic wave equation and we consider two setups, where the wave propagation is along…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

Research on pulsar timing arrays has provided preliminary evidence for the existence of a stochastic gravitational background, which, either being primordial or of astrophysical origin, will interact universally with matter distributions in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-15 Manjia Liang , Peng Xu , Congfeng Qiao , Minghui Du , Qiong Deng , Bo Liang , Ziren Luo

This work presents a generalized physical interpretation of unconventional dispersion asymmetries associated moving elastic solids. By shifting the notion from systems with time-variant material fields to physically traveling materials, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 M. A. Attarzadeh , M. Nouh

Although time-dependent random media with short range correlations lead to (possibly biased) normal tracer diffusion, anomalous fluctuations occur away from the most probable direction. This was pointed out recently in 1D lattice random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-19 Pierre Le Doussal , Thimothée Thiery

We follow the dynamics of nonlinear waves in two-dimensional disordered lattices with tunable nonlinearity. In the absence of nonlinear terms Anderson localization traps the packet in space. For the nonlinear case a destruction of Anderson…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-15 T. V. Laptyeva , J. D. Bodyfelt , S. Flach

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating half-space in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an asymptotic analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Adel Messaoudi , Regis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

For the study of information propagation, one fundamental problem is uncovering universal laws governing the dynamics of information propagation. This problem, from the microscopic perspective, is formulated as estimating the propagation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Junming Huang , Chao Li , Wen-Qiang Wang , Hua-Wei Shen , Guojie Li , Xue-Qi Cheng

We consider many-particle diffusion in one spatial dimension modeled as Random Walks in a Random Environment (RWRE). A shared short-range space-time random environment determines the jump distributions that drive the motion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-26 Jacob Hass , Hindy Drillick , Ivan Corwin , Eric Corwin

Supersonic turbulence generates distributions of shock waves. Here, we analyse the shock waves in three-dimensional numerical simulations of uniformly driven supersonic turbulence, with and without magnetohydrodynamics and self-gravity. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael D. Smith , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Fabian Heitsch

Wave localization induced by spatial disorder is ubiquitous in physics. Here, we study the temporal analog of such phenomenon on water waves. Our time disordered media consists in a collection of temporal interfaces achieved through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-16 Benjamin Apffel , Sander Wildeman , Antonin Eddi , Emmanuel Fort

The normal modes of a continuum solid endowed with a random distribution of line defects that behave like elastic strings are described. These strings interact with elastic waves in the bulk, generating wave dispersion and attenuation. As…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Fernando Lund

The frequency of occurrence of prime numbers at unit number spacing intervals exhibits selfsimilar fractal fluctuations concomitant with inverse power law form for power spectrum generic to dynamical systems in nature such as fluid flows,…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-13 A. M. Selvam

Excitation waves are studied on trees and random networks of coupled active elements. Undamped propagation of such waves is observed in those networks. It represents an excursion from the resting state and a relaxation back to it for each…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-06-12 Nikos E. Kouvaris , Thomas M. Isele , Alexander S. Mikhailov , Eckehard Schoell