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Many examples from quantum and classical physics are known where topological protection is responsible for the robustness of the dynamics. Less explored is the role of topological protection in the context of classical oscillatory systems.…

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Biological systems can rely on collective formation of a metachronal wave in an ensemble of oscillators for locomotion and for fluid transport. We consider one-dimensional chains of phase oscillators with nearest neighbor interactions,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 A. C. Quillen

In this work, we study the dynamical robustness in a system consisting of both active and inactive oscillators. We analytically show that the dynamical robustness of such system is determined by the cross link density between active and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-03-01 Wenwen Huang , Xiyun Zhang , Xin Hu , Zonghua Liu , Shuguang Guan

Topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems have attracted a lot of attention due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. In this study, we propose a periodically driven non-Hermitian lattice model in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

One of the hallmarks of bulk topology is the existence of robust boundary localized states. For instance, a conventional $d$ dimensional topological system hosts $d{-}1$ dimensional surface modes, which are protected by non-spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Ruchira V Bhat , Soumya Bera

This paper is concerned with the robust design for a class of switching systems from a fractional order control (FOC) perspective. In particular, the tuning of the robust fractional order PI (RFPI) controller is proposed based on phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-05-29 S. Hassan HosseinNia , Ines Tejado , Blas M. Vinagre

We study the oscillations and stability of self-gravitating cylindrically symmetric fluid systems and collisionless systems. This is done by studying small perturbations to the equilibrium system and finding the normal modes, using methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 Patrick C. Breysse , Marc Kamionkowski , Andrew Benson

We investigated the locking behaviors of coupled limit-cycle oscillators with phase and amplitude dynamics. We focused on how the dynamics are affected by inhomogeneous coupling strength and by angular and radial shifts in the coupling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Jae Hyung Woo , Christopher J. Honey , Joon-Young Moon

Discrete-time quantum walks allow Floquet topological insulator materials to be explored using controllable systems such as ultracold atoms in optical lattices. By numerical simulations, we study the robustness of topologically protected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Thorsten Groh , Stefan Brakhane , Wolfgang Alt , Dieter Meschede , Janos Asbóth , Andrea Alberti

Intractable phase dynamics often challenge our understanding of complex oscillatory systems, hindering the exploration of synchronisation, chaos, and emergent phenomena across diverse fields. We introduce a novel conceptual framework for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Marco Thiel

We consider the dynamics of an XY spin chain subjected to an external transverse field which is periodically quenched between two values. By deriving an exact expression of the Floquet Hamiltonian for this out-of-equilibrium protocol with…

We propose an explanation for the onset of oscillations seen in numerical simulations of dense, inclined flows of inelastic, frictional spheres. It is based on a phase transition between disordered and ordered collisional states that may be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-06 Danielle Tan , Patrick Richard , James T. Jenkins

Motivated by an experiment on a superconducting quantum processor [Mi et al., Science 378, 785 (2022)], we study level pairings in the many-body spectrum of the random-field Floquet quantum Ising model. The pairings derive from Majorana…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-27 Harald Schmid , Alexander-Georg Penner , Kang Yang , Leonid Glazman , Felix von Oppen

Fluctuations and noise may alter the behavior of dynamical systems considerably. For example, oscillations may be sustained by demographic fluctuations in biological systems where a stable fixed point is found in the absence of noise. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard P. Boland , Tobias Galla , Alan J. McKane

Floquet time crystal, which breaks discrete time-translation symmetry, is an intriguing phenomenon in non-equilibrium systems. It is crucial to understand the rigidity and robustness of discrete time crystal (DTC) phases in a many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-16 Peng Xu , Tian-Shu Deng

Results are presented for the dynamics of edge modes in interacting Floquet Ising chains. It is shown that in addition to the quasi-stable $0$ and $\pi$ edge modes, a third long lived edge mode arising from the operator product of the $0$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-09 Hsiu-Chung Yeh , Achim Rosch , Aditi Mitra

We extend the notion of fragile topology to periodically-driven systems. We demonstrate driving-induced fragile topology in two different models, namely, the Floquet honeycomb model and the Floquet $\pi$-flux square-lattice model. In both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Rui-Xing Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Yang

Inspired by current research on measurement-induced quantum phase transitions, we analyze the nonunitary Floquet transverse-field Ising model with complex nearest-neighbor couplings and complex transverse fields. Unlike its unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Lei Su , Aashish Clerk , Ivar Martin

The stability of complex networks, from power grids to biological systems, is crucial for their proper functioning. It is thus important to control such systems to maintain or restore their stability. Traditional approaches rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yuzhen Qin , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett , Marcel van Gerven

We develop a framework for the general interpretation of the stochastic dynamical system near a limit cycle. Such quasi-periodic dynamics are commonly found in a variety of nonequilibrium systems, including the spontaneous oscillations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-30 Janaki Sheth , Dolores Bozovic , Alex Levine