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We construct a quantum system of spherical spins with a continuous local symmetry. The model is exactly soluble in the thermodynamic limit and exhibits a number of interesting properties. We show that the local symmetry is spontaneously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-18 Pedro R. S. Gomes , P. F. Bienzobaz

This paper aims to show how to guide students with a familiar example to extract as much physics as possible before jumping into mathematical calculation. The period for a physical pendulum made up of a uniform rod is changed by attaching a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Zhiwei Chong

We have designed, built and operated a physical pendulum which allows one to demonstrate experimentally the behaviour of the pendulum under any equation of motion for such a device for any initial conditions. All parameters in the equation…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Hauptfleisch , T. Gasenzer , K. Meier , O. Nachtmann , J. Schemmel

We introduce a two-dimensional discrete-time dynamical system which represents the evolution of an angle and angular velocity. While the angle evolves by a fixed amount in every step, the evolution of the angular velocity is governed by a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Aakash Khandelwal , Ranjan Mukherjee

In recent papers by the authors (S.~Motonaga and K.~Yagasaki, Obstructions to integrability of nearly integrable dynamical systems near regular level sets, submitted for publication, and K.~Yagasaki, Nonintegrability of nearly integrable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Shoya Motonaga , Kazuyuki Yagasaki

We consider the motion of an incompressible viscous fluid on a sphere, incorporating the effects of the Coriolis force. We demonstrate that global solutions exist for any divergence-free initial condition with finite kinetic energy.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Yuanzhen Shao , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

A variational principle for determining unstable periodic orbits of flows as well as unstable spatio-temporally periodic solutions of extended systems is proposed and implemented. An initial loop approximating a periodic solution is evolved…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yueheng Lan , Predrag Cvitanovic

We prove the instability of the gravitating regular sphaleron solutions of the $SU(2)$ Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs system with a Higgs doublet, by studying the frequency spectrum of a class of radial perturbations. With the help of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Boschung , O. Brodbeck , F. Moser , N. Straumann , M. Volkov

Stability is a key property of dynamical systems. In some cases, we want to change unstable system into stable one to achieve certain goals in engineering. Here, we present an example of a $3$ dimensional switched system that alternates…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Yuyi Zhang , Yao Guo

We apply the convection stability criterion to a fluid in global thermodynamic equilibrium with a rigid rotation or with a constant acceleration along the streamlines. Different equations of state describing strongly interacting matter are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

This paper provides two results that are useful in the study of the existence and the stability properties of a periodic solution for a given dynamical system. The first result deals with scalar time-periodic systems and establishes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

The scope of inverted pendulum has been widely studied as one of the notable research with respect to standing in balance. The concept of this pendulum is similar to missile guidance, meaning that the center of drag is ahead that of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Bambang L. Widjiantoro , Moh Kamalul Wafi

By folding an autonomous system of rational equations in the plane to a scalar difference equation, we show that the rational system has coexisting periodic orbits of all possible periods as well as stable aperiodic orbits for certain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-20 N. Lazaryan , H. Sedaghat

We consider the global bifurcation problem for spatially periodic traveling waves for two-dimensional gravity-capillary vortex sheets. The two fluids have arbitrary constant, non-negative densities (not both zero), the gravity parameter can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-30 David M. Ambrose , Walter A. Strauss , J. Douglas Wright

We prove the existence of at least $cl(M)$ periodic orbits for certain time dependant Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle of an arbitrary compact manifold $M$. These Hamiltonians are not necessarily convex but they satisfy a certain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Christopher Golé

We consider the inverse problem of determining the Winkler subgrade reaction coefficient of a slab foundation modelled as a thin elastic plate clamped at the boundary. The plate is loaded by a concentrated force and its transversal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Giovanni Alessandrini , Antonino Morassi , Edi Rosset , Sergio Vessella

We consider the period of a simple pendulum in the gravitational field of the spherical Earth. Effectively, gravity is enhanced compared with the often used flat Earth approximation, such that the period of the pendulum is shortened. We…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Lior M. Burko

We study the apsidal precession of a Physical Symmetrical Pendulum (Allais' precession) as a generalization of the precession corresponding to the Ideal Spherical Pendulum (Airy's Precession). Based on the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Hector R. Maya , Rodolfo A. Diaz , William J. Herrera

We consider static solutions of the sine-Gordon theory defined on a cylinder, which can be either periodic or quasi-periodic in space. They are described by the different modes of a simple pendulum moving in an inverted effective potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 I. Bakas , C. Sourdis

In this communication we report the existence of a dynamic ``spin-reversal'' transition in an Ising system perturbed by a pulsed external magnetic field. The transition is achieved by tuning the strength ($h_p$) and/or the duration ($\Delta…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Misra , B. K. Chakrabarti