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We study chaotic dynamics in nonholonomic model of Celtic stone. We show that, for certain values of parameters characterizing geometrical and physical properties of the stone, a strange Lorenz-like attractor is observed in the model. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-30 A. S. Gonchenko , S. V. Gonchenko

Spontaneous spin-up are widely observed in tokamak plasmas, which is crucially important for plasma confinement. A kinetic theory is proposed to show that a toroidal rotation of core plasma is induced by the topological transition of orbits…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Shaojie Wang

The transition from rotational to discontinuous behavior of the return map of the perturbed oscillators-step system, a paradigm model for a perturbation of a pseudo-integrable Hamiltonian impact system, is studied. The form of the return…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-30 Idan Pazi , Alexandra Zobova , Vered Rom-Kedar

The Modboat is a low-cost, underactuated, modular robot capable of surface swimming, docking to other modules, and undocking from them using only a single motor and two passive flippers. Undocking is achieved by causing intentional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Zhijie Qiao , Gedaliah Knizhnik , Mark Yim

Metriplectic dynamics couple a Poisson bracket of the Hamiltonian description with a kind of metric bracket, for describing systems with both Hamiltonian and dissipative components. The construction builds in asymptotic convergence to a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Massimo Materassi , Philip J. Morrison

We report an unexpected reverse spiral turn in the final stage of the motion of rolling rings. It is well known that spinning disks rotate in the same direction of their initial spin until they stop. While a spinning ring starts its motion…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Mir Abbas Jalali , Milad S. Sarebangholi , Reza Alam

In pulsating active matter, topological defects are motile despite the absence of any macroscopic flows and microscopic self-propulsion. We reveal that this motility arises from a ratchet effect: the mechanochemical coupling between local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-26 Luca Casagrande , Alessandro Manacorda , Etienne Fodor

Altermagnetism is a collinear magnetic order in which opposite spin species are exchanged under a real-space rotation. Hence, the search for physical realizations has focussed on crystalline solids with specific rotational symmetry. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Peru d'Ornellas , Valentin Leeb , Adolfo G. Grushin , Johannes Knolle

In this paper, we report an interesting kinematic phenomenon around the halos' edge related to the splashback radius. After the shell-crossing, cosmic flow exhibits various rotational morphologies via stream-mixing. Vorticity is generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Xiaolin Luo , Xiangling Xu , Xin Wang

As an unusual type of anomalous diffusion behavior, superballistic transport is not well known but has been experimentally simulated recently. Quantum superballistic transport models to date are mainly based on connected sublattices which…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Qifang Zhao , Cord A. Muller , Jiangbin Gong

This paper focuses on rotational phenomena of rigid body kinematics. It discusses them in a group-theoretic approach as completely as possible, using methods and notations as intuitive as possible. With a review of current literature, this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Ziyuan Wang

The dynamics of moving solids with unilateral contacts are often modeled by assuming rigidity, point contacts, and Coulomb friction due to the simplicity of these models. The canonical example of a rigid rod with one endpoint slipping in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Peter L. Varkonyi

In rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, columnar vortices advect horizontally in a stochastic manner. When the centrifugal buoyancy is present the vortices exhibit radial motions that can be explained through a Langevin-type stochastic…

The Chaplygin sleigh is a classic example of a nonholonomically constrained mechanical system. The sleigh's motion always converges to a straight line whose slope is entirely determined by the initial configuration and velocity of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-18 Vitaliy Fedonyuk , Phanindra Tallapragada

In this paper, variational techniques are used to analyze the dynamics of nonholonomic mechanical systems with impacts. Implicit nonholonomic smooth Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems are extended to a nonsmooth context appropriate for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Leonardo Colombo

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation supports solitons -- self-interacting, localized states that behave as nearly independent objects. We exhibit solitons with self-induced nonreciprocal dynamics in a discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro , Wladimir Alejandro Benalcazar

Lie algebroids, singular foliations, and Dirac structures are closely related objects. We examine the relation between their pullbacks under maps satisfying a constant rank or transversality assumption. A special case is given by blowdown…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Andreas Schüßler , Marco Zambon

In this paper we analyze the spinning motion of the hovering magnetic top. We have observed that its motion looks different from that of a classical top. A classical top rotates about its own axis which precesses around a vertical fixed…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Flanders , S. Gov , S. Shtrikman , H. Thomas

Time reversal in quantum or classical systems described by an Hermitian Hamiltonian is a physically allowed process, which requires in principle inverting the sign of the Hamiltonian. Here we consider the problem of time reversal of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Stefano Longhi

We have introduced a class of spiraling elliptic solitons in generic nonlocal nonlinear media. The spiraling elliptic solitons carry the orbital angular momentum. This class solitons are stable for any degree of nonlocality except for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-03-08 Guo Liang , Qian Shou , Qi Guo