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This article investigates the modeling and control of Lagrangian systems involving non-conservative forces using a hybrid method that does not require acceleration calculations. It focuses in particular on the derivation and identification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Ibrahim Laiche , Mokrane Boudaoud , Patrick Gallinari , Pascal Morin

This paper is a generalization of previous work on the use of classical canonical transformations to evaluate Hamiltonian path integrals for quantum mechanical systems. Relevant aspects of the Hamiltonian path integral and its measure are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark S. Swanson

We show that a pair of coupled nonlinear oscillators, of which one oscillator has positive and the other one negative damping of equal rate, can form a Hamiltonian system. Small-amplitude oscillations in this system are governed by a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2014-05-28 I V Barashenkov , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda

The experimental realization of balanced gain and loss in a quantum system has been a long standing goal in quantum mechanics since the introduction of the concept of $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry and has only recently been achieved. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sinan Altinisik , Daniel Dizdarevic , Jörg Main

The inspiration for this theoretical paper comes from recent experiments on a PT-symmetric system of two coupled optical whispering galleries (optical resonators). The optical system can be modeled as a pair of coupled linear oscillators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda

We investigate the effects of dichotomous noise added to a classical harmonic oscillator in the form of stochastic time-dependent gain and loss states, whose durations are sampled from two distinct exponential waiting time distributions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-01 Mirko Luković , Patrick Navez , Giorgos P. Tsironis , Theo Geisel

Recently, open systems with balanced, spatially separated loss and gain have been realized and studied using non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that are invariant under the combined parity and time-reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$) operations. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Harsha Vemuri , Yogesh N. Joglekar

We analyze the dynamical equations obeyed by a classical system with position-dependent mass. It is shown that there is a non-conservative force quadratic in the velocity associated to the variable mass. We construct the Lagrangian and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Sara Cruz y Cruz , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

The expansion of a classical Hamilton formalism consisting in adaptation of it to describe the nonequilibrium systems is offered. Expansion is obtained by construction of formalism on the basis of the dynamics equation of the equilibrium…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Somsikov

A survey of topics of recent interest in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems, including accessible discussions of regularization of the central force problem; inequivalent Lagrangians and Hamiltonians; constants of central force…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 James T. Wheeler

Non-Hermitian systems with parity-time symmetry have been found to exhibit real spectra of eigenvalues, indicating a balance between the loss and gain. However, such a balance is not only dependent on the magnitude of loss and gain, but…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-29 Liyou Luo , Jie Luo , Hongchen Chu , Yun Lai

Hamilton's principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton's principle has a subtle pitfall that often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chad R. Galley

It is noted that the Schrodinger equation with any self-adjoint Hamiltonian is unitary equivalent to a set of non-interacting classical harmonic oscillators and in this sense any quantum dynamics is completely integrable. Higher order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Igor V. Volovich

Classical integrable Hamiltonian systems generated by elements of the Poisson commuting ring of spectral invariants on rational coadjoint orbits of the loop algebra $\wt{\gr{gl}}^{+*}(2,{\bf R})$ are integrated by separation of variables in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 John Harnad , P. Winternitz

The phenomenon of PT (parity- and time-reversal) symmetry breaking is conventionally associated with a change in the complex mode spectrum of a non-Hermitian system that marks a transition from a purely oscillatory to an exponentially…

The Hamiltonian for a PT-symmetric chain of coupled oscillators is constructed. It is shown that if the loss-gain parameter $\gamma$ is uniform for all oscillators, then as the number of oscillators increases, the region of unbroken…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda , S. P. Klevansky

Keeping in view the ordering ambiguity that arises due to the presence of position-dependent effective mass in the kinetic energy term of the Hamiltonian, a general scheme for obtaining algebraic solutions of quantum mechanical systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Naila Amir , Shahid Iqbal

A two-mode optical parity-time (PT) symmetric system, with gain and damping, described by a quantum quadratic Hamiltonian with additional small Kerr-like nonlinear terms, is analyzed from the point of view of nonclassical-light generation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Jan Perina , Antonin Luks , Joanna K. Kalaga , Wieslaw Leonski , Adam Miranowicz

After a brief survey of the definition and the properties of Lambda-symmetries in the general context of dynamical systems, the notion of "Lambda-constant of motion'' for Hamiltonian equations is introduced. If the Hamiltonian problem is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 Giampaolo Cicogna

In general relativity, the Einstein equations provide spherically symmetric static spacetimes with dynamics defined as an evolution along the radial coordinate $r$. The geometrical sector becomes a one-dimensional mechanical system, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Etera R. Livine , Yuki Yokokura