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Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinearities in crystalline media have enabled non-reciprocal…

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A novel self-sustaining mechanism is proposed for large-scale helical structures in compressible turbulent flows. The existence of two channels of subgrid-scale and viscosity terms for large-scale helicity evolution is confirmed for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-03 Zheng Yan , Jianchun Wang , Lifeng Wang , Zhu Lei , Junfeng Wu , Junyi Duan , Fulin Tong , Xinliang Li , Changping Yu

We investigate how sign-indefinite quadratic invariants shape turbulent cascades in incompressible flows with broken time-reversal symmetry, where the dynamics supports strongly anisotropic dispersive waves. Focusing on rotating Euler flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-05 Shahaf Aharony Shapira , Michal Shavit

A general algebraic approach, incorporating both invariance groups and dynamic symmetry algebras, is developed to reveal hidden coherent structures (closed complexes and configurations) in quantum many-body physics models due to symmetries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Valery P. Karassiov

We introduce quantum circuits in two and three spatial dimensions which are classically simulable, despite producing a high degree of operator entanglement. We provide a partial characterization of these "automaton" quantum circuits, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-10 Jason Iaconis , Sagar Vijay , Rahul Nandkishore

Rapidly rotating turbulent flow is characterized by the emergence of columnar structures that are representative of quasi-two dimensional behavior of the flow. It is known that when energy is injected into the fluid at an intermediate scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Amrik Sen , Pablo D. Mininni , Duane Rosenberg , Annick pouquet

We predict the emergence of turbulent scaling in the quench dynamics of the two-dimensional Heisenberg model for a wide range of initial conditions and model parameters. In the isotropic Heisenberg model, we find that the spin-spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva

The concept of inverse energy cascades has played a central role in the development of turbulence theory, with applications in two-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional flows. We examine the presence or absence of inverse energy cascades in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Alexandros Alexakis , Raffaele Marino , Pablo D. Mininni

Two-dimensional turbulence self-organizes through a process of energy accumulation at large scales, forming a coherent flow termed a condensate. We study the condensate in a model with local dynamics, the large-scale quasi-geostrophic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Anton Svirsky , Corentin Herbert , Anna Frishman

The inverse cascade of magnetic helicity in 3D-MHD turbulence is believed to be one of the processes responsible for large scale magnetic structure formation in astrophysical systems. In this work we present an exhaustive set of high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shiva Kumar Malapaka , Wolf-Christian Müller

A connection between the dynamics of a sine-Gordon chain and a certain static membrane folding problem was recently found. The one-dimensional membrane profile is a cross-section of the position-time sine-Gordon amplitude profile. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-20 Haim Diamant , Thomas A. Witten

We analyze a class of linear shell models subject to stochastic forcing in finitely many degrees of freedom. The unforced systems considered formally conserve energy. Despite being formally conservative, we show that these dynamical systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan C. Mattingly , Toufic Suidan , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

How turbulent convective fluctuations organise to form large-scale structures in planetary atmospheres remains a question that eludes quantitative answers. The assumption that this process is the result of an inverse cascade was suggested…

Kraichnan seminal ideas on inverse cascades yielded new tools to study common phenomena in geophysical turbulent flows. In the atmosphere and the oceans, rotation and stratification result in a flow that can be approximated as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-19 D. Oks , P. D. Mininni , R. Marino , A. Pouquet

In turbulent flows kinetic energy is spread by nonlinear interactions over a broad range of scales. Energy transfer may proceed either toward small scales or in the reverse direction. The latter case is peculiar of two-dimensional (2D)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Luca Biferale , Stefano Musacchio , Federico Toschi

The equations of electrostatic drift kinetics are observed to possess a symmetry associated with their intrinsic scale invariance. Under the assumptions of spatial periodicity, stationarity, and locality, this symmetry implies a particular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 T. Adkins , P. G. Ivanov , A. A. Schekochihin

There exist instances of dynamical systems possessing symmetry transformations of which the conserved Noether charges generating these symmetries feature an explicit time dependence in their functional representation over phase space. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-02 Jan Govaerts

Shell models provide a simplified mathematical framework that captures essential features of incompressible fluid turbulence, such as the energy cascade and scaling of the fluid observables. We perform a precision analysis of the direct and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-19 James Creswell , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Yaron Oz

We investigate how symmetry, exact coherent structures (ECSs), and their invariant manifolds organize spontaneous flow reversals in a 2D active nematic confined to a periodic channel. In minimal flow units commensurate with the intrinsic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-13 Angel Naranjo , Rumayel Pallock , Caleb Wagner , Piyush Grover

The notions of self-organised criticality (SOC) and turbulence are traditionally considered to be applicable to disjoint classes of phenomena. Nevertheless, scale-free burst statistics is a feature shared by turbulent as well as…