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We investigate the dynamics of a charged particle confined to move on a toroidal helix while being driven by an external time-dependent electric field. The underlying phase space is analyzed for linearly and circularly polarized fields. For…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Ansgar Siemens , Peter Schmelcher

An effective one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation for a spinless particle constrained to motion near a toroidal helix immersed in an arbitrarily oriented constant magnetic field is developed. The dependence of the induced toroidal moments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 J. Williamson , M. Encinosa

A driven pendulum with vertical oscillations of pendulum support (Kapitza pendulum) possesses a number of unusual properties and is a popular object of both analytical and numerical studies. Although some spectacular results can be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-31 G. E. Astrakharchik , N. A. Astrakharchik

A toroidal trap combined with external time-dependent electric field can be used for implementing different dynamical regimes of matter waves. In particular, we show that dynamical and stochastic acceleration, localization and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-13 Yu. V. Bludov , V. V. Konotop

A generalization of the classical Kapitza pendulum is considered: an inverted planar mathematical pendulum with a vertically vibrating pivot point in a time-periodic horizontal force field. We study the existence of forced oscillations in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Ivan Polekhin

We present analytical and numerical results on integrability and transition to chaotic motion for a generalized Ziegler pendulum, a double pendulum subject to an angular elastic potential and a follower force. Several variants of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-13 Stefano Disca , Vincenzo Coscia

We report a theoretical study of electron transport along helical molecules under an external electric field, which is perpendicular to the helix axis of the molecule. Our results reveal that the topological states could appear in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

The planar inverted pendulum with a vibrating pivot point in the presence of an additional horizontal force field is studied. The horizontal force is not assumed to be small or rapidly oscillating. We assume that the pivot point of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Ivan Polekhin

We present a pedagogical introduction to Floquet-Magnus theory through the classical example of Kapitza's pendulum - a simple system exhibiting nontrivial dynamical stabilization under rapid periodic driving. By deriving the equations of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Johannes K. Krondorfer , Maria Kainz , Matthias Diez , Andreas W. Hauser

Stop-and-go waves in vehicular traffic are commonly explained as a linear collective instability induced by e.g. response delays. We explore an alternative mechanism that more faithfully mirrors oscillation formation in dense single-file…

In this paper we study the global dynamics of the inverted spherical pendulum with a vertically vibrating suspension point in the presence of an external horizontal periodic force field. We do not assume that this force field is weak or…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Ivan Polekhin

Dynamical stabilization processes (homeostasis) are ubiquitous in nature, but energetic resources needed for their existence were not studied systematically. Here we undertake such a study using the famous model of Kapitza's pendulum, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 A. E. Allahverdyan , E. Khalafyan

We explore the non-equilibrium dissipative dynamics of a system of identical charged particles trapped on a closed helix. The particles are subject to an external force accelerating them along the underlying structure. The effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-17 A. V. Zampetaki , J. Stockhofe , P. Schmelcher

The unstable top-equilibrium point of a simple pendulum turns stable when its pivot point is given a fast and strong enough vertical vibration. Known as the Kapitza oscillator, it has four symmetrically spaced points of equilibrium in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Mainak Pal

A novel plasma state has been found in the presence of a uniform applied axial magnetic field in periodic cylindrical geometry. This state is driven electrostatically by helical electrodes, providing a driving field that depends on radius…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 Cihan Akçay , John M. Finn , Richard A. Nebel , Daniel C. Barnes

We consider an incompressible fluid contained in a toroidal stratum which is only subjected to Newtonian self-attraction. Under the assumption of infinitesimal tickness of the stratum we show the existence of stationary motions during which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Giorgio Fusco , Piero Negrini , Waldyr M. Oliva

Dynamical stabilization of an inverted pendulum through vertical movement of the pivot is a well-known counterintuitive phenomenon in classical mechanics. This system is also known as Kapitza pendulum and the stability can be explained with…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Nivedita Bhadra

About twenty years ago, Rabinowitz showed firstly that there exist heteroclinic orbits of autonomous Hamiltonian system joining two equilibria. A special case of autonomous Hamiltonian system is the classical pendulum equation. The phase…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Huafeng Xiao , Jianshe Yu

We analyze the dynamics of a classical particle in a spatially periodic potential under the influence of a periodic in time uniform force. It was shown in [S.Flach, O.Yevtushenko, Y. Zolotaryuk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2358 (2000)] that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-11 A. P. Itin , A. I. Neishtadt

We consider a many-body generalization of the Kapitza pendulum: the periodically-driven sine-Gordon model. We show that this interacting system is dynamically stable to periodic drives with finite frequency and amplitude. This finding is in…

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