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We present the basic formulation of Hamilton dynamics in complex phase space. We extend the Hamilton's function by including the imaginary part and find out the corresponding Hamilton's canonical equation of motion. Example of simple…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Muhammad Adnan Shahzad

We numerically investigate the orbital dynamics of a two-dimensional galactic model, emphasizing the influence of stable and unstable manifolds on the evolution of orbits. In our analysis we use evaluations of the system's Lagrangian…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Dylan Theron , Charalampos Skokos

This paper explores how orbits in a galactic potential can be impacted by large amplitude time-dependences of the form that one might associate with galaxy or halo formation or strong encounters between pairs of galaxies. A period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henry E. Kandrup , Ileana M. Vass , Ioannis V. Sideris

We show that the probability distribution function that best fits the distribution of return times between two consecutive visits of a chaotic trajectory to finite size regions in phase space deviates from the exponential statistics by a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Murilo S. Baptista , Dariel M. Maranhao , Jose C. Sartorelli

Observations indicate that intermediate mass stars, binary stars, and stellar remnants often host planets; a complete explanation of these systems requires an understanding of how planetary orbits evolve as their central stars lose mass.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fred C. Adams , Kassandra R. Anderson , Anthony M. Bloch

We examine the idea that dynamical parameters can be estimated by identifying locations in the solar neighbourhood where simulated velocity distributions match the observed local distribution. Here, the dynamical influence of both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dalia Chakrabarty

We study the phase space structures that control the transport in a classical Hamiltonian model for a chemical reaction. This model has been proposed to study the yield of products in an ultracold exothermic reaction. In the considered…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-04 Francisco Gonzalez Montoya , Stephen Wiggins

The sensitivity of trajectories over finite time intervals t to perturbations of the initial conditions can be associated with a finite-time Lyapunov exponent lambda, obtained from the elements M_{ij} of the stability matrix M. For globally…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Schomerus , M. Titov

In this study we consider the Hamiltonian approach for the construction of a map for a system with nonlinear resonant interaction, including phase trapping and phase bunching effects. We derive basic equations for a single resonant…

We propose a novel method applied to extrasolar planetary dynamics to describe the system stability. The observations in this field serve the measurements mainly of radial velocity, transit time, and/or celestial position. These scalar time…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Tamas Kovacs

The classical dynamics in stationary potentials that are random both in space and time is studied. It can be intuitively understood with the help of Chirikov resonances that are central in the theory of Chaos, and explored quantitatively in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-30 Yevgeny Krivolapov , Shmuel Fishman

The spatio-temporally periodic (STP) potential is interesting in Physics due to the intimate coupling between its time and spatial components. In this paper we begin with a brief discussion of the dynamical behaviors of a single particle in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-04 Owen D. Myers , Junru Wu , Jeffrey S. Marshall , Christopher M. Danforth

Recently a new theory for the transport of energetic particles across a mean magnetic field was presented. Compared to other non-linear theories the new approach has the advantage that it provides a full time-dependent description of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jordan Lasuik , Andreas Shalchi

We show that the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density-functional theory displays dynamical step structures that have a spatially non-local and time non-local dependence on the density. Using one-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Elliott , Johanna I. Fuks , Angel Rubio , Neepa T. Maitra

In principle, the probability of configurations, determined by the system's partition function or wave function, encapsulates essential information about phases and phase transitions. Despite the exponentially large configuration space, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-26 Wen-Yu Su , Yu-Jing Liu , Nvsen Ma , Chen Cheng

On long enough timescales, chaotic diffusion has the potential to significantly alter the appearance of a dynamical system. The solar system is no exception: diffusive processes take part in the transportation of small bodies and provide…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Emese Kővári , Emese Forgács-Dajka , Tamás Kovács , Csaba Kiss , Zsolt Sándor

In this article we investigate driven dissipative quantum dynamics of an ensemble of two-level systems given by a Markovian master equation with collective and non-collective dissipators. Exploiting the permutation symmetry in our model, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Konrad Merkel , Valentin Link , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz

We describe the dynamical behavior of isolated old (> 1 G yr) objects-like Neutron Stars (NSs). These isolated NSs are evolved under smooth, time-independent, 3-D gravitational potentials, axisymmetric and with a triaxial dark halo. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-03 Ali Taani , Juan C. Vallejo

We investigate the evolution of phase space close to complex unstable periodic orbits in two galactic type potentials. They represent characteristic morphological types of disc galaxies, namely barred and normal (non-barred) spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 P. A. Patsis , T. Manos , L. Chaves-Velasquez , Ch. Skokos , I. Puerari

In this paper we present a theoretical analysis of the global dynamics in a triaxial galactic system using a 3D integrable Hamiltonian as a simple representation. We include a thorough discussion on the effect of adding a generic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo M. Cincotta , Claudia M. Giordano , Josefa Perez , .