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Stochastic systems often exhibit multiple viable metastable states that are long-lived. Over very long timescales, fluctuations may push the system to transition between them, drastically changing its macroscopic configuration. In realistic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-14 Tobias Grafke , Alessandro Laio

We conjecture that in one-dimensional spatially extended systems the propagation velocity of correlations coincides with a zero of the convective Lyapunov spectrum. This conjecture is successfully tested in three different contexts: (i) a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giacomelli , R. Hegger , A. Politi , M. Vassalli

Quantum systems can show qualitatively new forms of behavior when they are driven by fast time-periodic modulations. In the limit of large driving frequency, the long-time dynamics of such systems can often be described by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-01 N. Goldman , J. Dalibard , M. Aidelsburger , N. R. Cooper

We introduce a new and robust approach for characterizing spatially and temporally heterogeneous behavior within a system based on the evolution of dynamic fuctuations once averaged over different space lengths and time scales. We apply it…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-04 J. Ariel Rodriguez Fris , Eric R. Weeks , Francesco Sciortino , Gustavo A. Appignanesi

The recently developed method (Paper 1) enabling one to investigate the evolution of dynamical systems with an accuracy not dependent on time is developed further. The classes of dynamical systems which can be studied by that method are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. A. Kocharyan

The Hamiltonian dynamics of the classical $\phi^4$ model on a two-dimensional square lattice is investigated by means of numerical simulations. The macroscopic observables are computed as time averages. The results clearly reveal the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lando Caiani , Lapo Casetti , Marco Pettini

The aim of this talk is to present the most recent advances in establishing plausible planetary system architectures determined by the gravitational tidal interactions between the planets and the disc in which they are embedded during the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ewa Szuszkiewicz , John C. B. Papaloizou

Metastability is a physical phenomenon ubiquitous in first order phase transitions. A fruitful mathematical way to approach this phenomenon is the study of rare transitions Markov chains. For Metropolis chains associated with Statistical…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Emilio Cirillo , Francesca Nardi , Julien Sohier

Time-dependently driven stochastic systems form a vast and manifold class of non-equilibrium systems used to model important applications on small length scales such as bit erasure protocols or microscopic heat engines. One property that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-07 Julius Degünther , Timur Koyuk , Udo Seifert

We analyze energy spreading for a system that features mixed chaotic phase-space, whose control parameters (or slow degrees of freedom) vary quasi-statically. For demonstration purpose we consider the restricted 3~body problem, where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-10 Yehoshua Winsten , Doron Cohen

We present a general model allowing one to calculate the distribution function of energetic particles in the interstellar medium, and hence any relevant nuclear reaction rate, for any given time-dependent injection function, as well as in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Etienne Parizot

We revisit the secular 3D planetary three-body problem aiming to provide a unified formalism for studying the structure of the phase space for progressively higher values of the mutual inclination $i_{mut}$ between the two planets' orbits.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Rita Mastroianni , Christos Efthymiopoulos

Stroboscopic wavepacket basis sets [P. Bokes, F. Corsetti, R. W. Godby, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046402 (2008)] are specifically tailored for a description of time-dependent processes in extended systems like non-periodic geometries of various…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Bokes

The orbital decay of a perturber within a larger system plays a key role in the dynamics of many astrophysical systems -- from nuclear star clusters or globular clusters in galaxies, to massive black holes in galactic nuclei, to dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-04 Tomas Tamfal , Lucio Mayer , Thomas R. Quinn , Pedro R. Capelo , Stelios Kazantzidis , Arif Babul , Douglas Potter

The primary focus of this thesis is the numerical investigation of chaos in Hamiltonian models describing charged particle orbits in plasma, star motions in barred galaxies, and orbits' diffusion in multidimensional maps. We systematically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-24 Henok Tenaw Moges

The dynamics of time-dependent coupled oscillator model for the charged particle motion subjected to a time-dependent external magnetic field is investigated. We used canonical transformation approach for the classical treatment of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Salah Menouar , Mustapha Maamache , Jeong Ryeol Choi

Generic dynamical systems have `typical' Lyapunov exponents, measuring the sensitivity to small perturbations of almost all trajectories. A generic system has also trajectories with exceptional values of the exponents, corresponding to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-06 Tanguy Laffargue , Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam , Jorge Kurchan , Julien Tailleur

The dynamics of heavy particles suspended in turbulent flows is of fundamental importance for a wide range of questions in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, oceanography, and technology. Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig

The ordering dynamics of the Higgs field is studied, using techniques inspired by the study of phase ordering in condensed matter physics, as a first step to understanding the evolution of cosmic structure through the formation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Joao A. N. Filipe , Alan J. Bray

We have studied the influence of an evolving gravitational potential of the Milky Way Galaxy on the orbital motion of 152 globular clusters with proper motions from the Gaia EDR3 catalogue and mean distances from Baumgardt and Vasiliev…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-23 A. T. Bajkova , A. A. Smirnov , V. V. Bobylev