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An incident wave at a temporal interface, created by an abrupt change in system parameters, generates time-refracted and time-reflected waves. We find topological characteristics associated with the temporal interface that separates…

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We observe that the reflection and transmission coefficients of a particle within a double, PT symmetric heterojunction with spatially varying mass, show interesting features, depending on the degree of non Hermiticity, although there is no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Anjana Sinha , R. Roychoudhury

Topological properties of physical systems play a crucial role in our understanding of nature, yet their experimental determination remains elusive. We show that the mean helicity, a dynamical invariant in ideal flows, quantitatively…

Experiments observing the liquid surface in a vertically oscillating container have indicated that modeling the dynamics of such systems require maps that admit states at infinity. In this paper we investigate the bifurcations in such a…

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We study the dynamics of multipulse solutions in mode-locked lasers in presence of time-delayed feedback stemming, e.g., from reflections upon optical elements, and carrier dynamics. We demonstrate that the dynamics of such a high…

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When propagated action potentials in cardiac tissue interact with local heterogeneities, reflected waves can sometimes be induced. These reflected waves have been associated with the onset of cardiac arrhythmias, and while their generation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Stephanie Dodson , Timothy J. Lewis

We compute the Gaseous Dynamical Friction (GDF) force experienced by massive perturbers on elliptical Keplerian orbits. In this paper, we investigate the density wake morphology, dynamical friction force, and secular orbital evolution for…

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We analyze the convergence of a perturbed circular interface for the two-phase Mullins-Sekerka evolution in flat two-dimensional space. Our method is based on the gradient flow structure of the evolution and captures two distinct regimes of…

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Observations of coronal waves (CWs) interacting with coronal holes (CHs) show the formation of typical wave-like features, such as reflected, refracted and transmitted waves (collectively, secondary waves). In accordance with these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 I. Piantschitsch , J. Terradas

The effect of small forced symmetry breaking on the dynamics near a structurally stable heteroclinic cycle connecting two equilibria and a periodic orbit is investigated. This type of system is known to exhibit complicated, possibly chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-07 Vivien Kirk , Alastair M. Rucklidge

The effect of rotation on the classical gravity-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been shown to influence the scale of the perturbations that develop at the unstable interface and consequently alter the speed of propagation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 M. M. Scase , R. J. A. Hill

Turbulence and chaos play a fundamental role in stellar convective zones through the transportof particles, energy and momentum, and in fast dynamos, through the stretching, twisting and folding of magnetic flux tubes. A particularly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Erico L. Rempel , Abraham C. -L. Chian , Axel Brandenburg

In this manuscript we identify the main differences between the effects of Kramers symmetry on the systems with even and odd number of electrons, the ways how the aforementioned symmetry affects the structure of the Conical Seams (CSs), and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ruixi Wang , Vladimir Chernyak

Periodic solution parameters, in chaotic dynamical systems, form periodic windows with characteristic distribution in two-parameter spaces. Recently, general properties of this organization have been reported, but a theoretical explanation…

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A symplectic integrator algorithm suitable for hierarchical triple systems is formulated and tested. The positions of the stars are followed in hierarchical Jacobi coordinates, whilst the planets are referenced purely to their primary. The…

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In the present paper, we show that elliptical galaxies (Es) obey a scaling relation between potential energy and mass. Since they are relaxed systems in a post violent-relaxation stage, they are quasi-equilibrium gravitational systems and…

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Reactive, semi-permeable interfaces play important roles in key biological processes such as targeted drug delivery, lipid metabolism, and signal transduction. These systems involve coupled surface reactions, transmembrane transport, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Weidong Shi , Shixin Xu , Zhen Zhang , Quan Zhao

Establishing the existence of periodic orbits is one of the crucial and most intricate topics in the study of dynamical systems, and over the years, many methods have been developed to this end. On the other hand, finding closed orbits in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Marian Mrozek , Roman Srzednicki , Justin Thorpe , Thomas Wanner

Existence and stability of Dirac points in the dispersion relation of operators periodic with respect to the hexagonal lattice is investigated for different sets of additional symmetries. The following symmetries are considered: rotation by…

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