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Nonlinear dynamical systems subjected to a combination of noise and time-varying forcing can exhibit sudden changes, critical transitions or tipping points where large or rapid dynamic effects arise from changes in a parameter that are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Peter Ashwin , Julian Newman , Raphael Römer

Using direct numerical simulation we study the behavior of the maximal Lyapunov exponent in thin-layer turbulence, where one dimension of the system is constrained geometrically. Such systems are known to exhibit transitions from fully…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Daniel Clark , Andres Armua , Calum Freeman , Daniel J. Brener , Arjun Berera

We study the dynamics of one-dimensional active particles confined in a double-well potential, focusing on the escape properties of the system, such as the mean escape time from a well. We first consider a single-particle both in near and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Fabio Cecconi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Boundary time crystals exhibit spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry through persistent periodic oscillations in driven-dissipative many-body systems. Here, we show that multilevel interference provides a natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kang Shen , Xiangming Hu , Fei Wang

Virtual potentials are an elegant, precise and flexible tool to manipulate small systems and explore fundamental questions in stochastic thermodynamics. In particular double-well potentials have applications in information processing, such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-25 Salambô Dago , Nicolas Barros , Jorge Pereda , Sergio Ciliberto , Ludovic Bellon

Within the Bohr's correspondence principle, the quantum theory should reproduce the classical world when $\hbar\to 0$. In practice, the discrete energies come close to each other before passing to continuum, causing that highly excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 D . J. Nader , J. R. Hernandez-Gonzalez , H. Vazquez-Sanchez , S. Lerma-Hernandez

The mechanism of superluminal traversal time through a potential well or potential barrier is investigated from the viewpoint of interference between multiple finite wave packets, due to the multiple reflections inside the well or barrier.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-30 Xi Chen , Chun-Fang Li

An asymmetric double-well potential is considered, assuming that the minima of the wells are quadratic with a frequency $\omega$ and the difference of the minima is close to a multiple of $\hbar \omega$. A WKB wave function is constructed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 Dae-Yup Song

It is shown that a channel flow of a dilute polymer solution between two widely spaced cylinders hindering the flow is an important paradigm of an unbounded flow in the case in which the channel wall is located sufficiently far from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-12 Atul Varshney , Victor Steinberg

Tipping behavior can occur when an equilibrium of a dynamical system loses stability in response to a slowly varying parameter crossing a bifurcation threshold, or where noise drives a system from one attractor to another, or some…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-26 Raphael Römer , Peter Ashwin

In the superparamagnetic regime, magnetic tunnel junctions switch between two resistance states due to random thermal fluctuations. The dwell time distribution in each state is exponential. We sample this distribution using a temporal…

Transient tunneling effects in triple barrier systems are investigated by considering a time-dependent solution to the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a cutoff wave initial condition. We derive a two-level formula for incidence energies $E$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Romo , Jorge Villavicencio , Gaston Garcia-Calderon

The dynamics of the population imbalance of bosons in a double-well potential is investigated from the point of view of many-body quantum mechanics in the framework of the two-mode model. For small initial population imbalances, coherent…

We consider small perturbations of a dynamical system on the one-dimensional torus. We derive sharp estimates for the pre-factor of the stationary state, we examine the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-19 C. Landim , I. Seo

Many chaotic dynamical systems of physical interest present a strong form of nonhyperbolicity called unstable dimension variability (UDV), for which the chaotic invariant set contains periodic orbits possessing different numbers of unstable…

We study pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-advection-diffusion systems. We develop an approach based on Lyapunov-Bloch exponents to figure out the impact of a spatially periodic mixing flow on the stability of a spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-15 A. V. Straube , A. Pikovsky

The basin entropy is a measure that quantifies, in a system that has two or more attractors, the predictability of a final state, as a function of the initial conditions. While the basin entropy has been demonstrated on a variety of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-07 Juan Pedro Tarigo , Cecilia Stari , Cristina Masoller , Arturo C. Marti

We analyze the dynamics of the molecular field incoherently pumped by the photoassociation of fermionic atoms and coupled by quantum tunnelling in a double-well potential. The relative phase distribution of the molecular modes in each well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Miyakawa , C. P. Search , P. Meystre

We consider the time delay of massive, non-relativistic, one-dimensional particles due to a tunneling potential. In this setting the well-known Hartman effect asserts that often the sub-ensemble of particles going through the tunnel seems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-13 J. Kiukas , A. Ruschhaupt , R. F. Werner

In this paper, we examine interwell tunneling between a pair of fractional quantum Hall liquids in a double quantum well system in a tilted magnetic field. Using a variational Monte Carlo method, we calculate moments of the intra-Landau…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. R. Renn , B. W. Roberts