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The identification of invariant objects and Lagrangian coherent structures is a cornerstone of dynamical systems. As a consequence, several diagnostic indicators have been established over time, such as the fast Lyapunov indicator, the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 P. García-Cuadrillero , J. A. Capitán , F. Revuelta

In a smooth flow, the leading-order response of trajectories to infinitesimal perturbations in their initial conditions is described by the finite-time Lyapunov exponents and associated characteristic directions of stretching. We give a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Chaos is an inherently dynamical phenomenon traditionally studied for trajectories that are either permanently erratic or transiently influenced by permanently erratic ones lying on a set of measure zero. The latter gives rise to the final…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-12 Adilson E. Motter , Marton Gruiz , Gyorgy Karolyi , Tamas Tel

We investigate chaos in mixed-phase-space Hamiltonian systems using time series of the finite- time Lyapunov exponents. The methodology we propose uses the number of Lyapunov exponents close to zero to define regimes of ordered…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. M. da Silva , C. Manchein , M. W. Beims , E. G. Altmann

This study investigates the causal timeline of vortex stretching in high-Reynolds-number turbulence ($Re_\lambda \approx 433$) using Lagrangian tracking in $1024^3$ direct numerical simulations. While classical theories often assume an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-15 Khalid Saqr

We study the regular or chaotic nature of orbits in a 3D potential describing a triaxial galaxy surrounded by a spherical dark halo component. Our numerical calculations show, that the percentage of chaotic orbits decreases exponentially,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-11 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

Three-dimensional steady-state Arnold-Beltrami-Childress (ABC) flow has a chaotic Lagrangian structure, and also satisfies the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations with an external force per unit mass. It is well-known that, although trajectories…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-16 Shijie Qin , Shijun Liao

We introduce a modal representation for Lagrangian trajectories in turbulence, termed Lagrangian Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (LPOD). An ensemble of particle trajectories is used to construct velocity time series, which are normalized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ron Shnapp , Stefano Brizzolara

We study in detail the onset of chaos and the probability measures formed by individual Bohmian trajectories in entangled states of two-qubit systems for various degrees of entanglement. The qubit systems consist of coherent states of 1-d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Athanasios C. Tzemos , George Contopoulos

Ergodic theory provides a rigorous mathematical description of chaos in classical dynamical systems, including a formal definition of the ergodic hierarchy. How ergodic dynamics is reflected in the energy levels and eigenstates of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Amit Vikram , Victor Galitski

As a function of the disorder strength in a mesoscopic system, the electron dynamics crosses over from the ballistic through the diffusive towards the localized regime. The ballistic and the localized situation correspond to integrable or…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dietmar Weinmann , Sigmund Kohler , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Hänggi

Motivated by a similar approach for Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, this paper proposes an extended "shadow" Lagrangian density for quantum states of superfluids. The extended Lagrangian contains an additional field variable that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Patrick Henning , Anders M. N. Niklasson

Using a new time-dependent measure, we demonstrate for the first time that each defect in a representative defect-mediated spatiotemporally chaotic system is associated with one to two degrees of dynamical freedom. Furthermore, we show that…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 David A. Egolf

How chaos is useful in the brain information processing is greatly unknown. Here, we show that the statistical property of chaos such as invariant measures naturally organized under a great number of iterations of chaotic mappings can be…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Ken Umeno

Given a chaotic dynamical system and a time interval in which some quantity takes an unusually large average value, what can we say of the trajectory that yields this deviation? As an example, we study the trajectories of the archetypical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam , Jorge Kurchan , Dov Levine

We consider quantum trajectories arising from disordered, repeated generalized measurements, which have the structure of Markov chains in random environments (MCRE) with dynamically-defined transition probabilities; we call these disordered…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Owen Ekblad , Eloy Moreno-Nadales , Lubashan Pathirana

Although deterministic chaos has been predicted to occur in the triply resonant optical parametric oscillator (TROPO) fifteen years ago, experimental evidence of chaotic behavior in this system has been lacking so far, in marked contrast…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Axelle Amon , Marc Lefranc

In this paper we show that the quantum theory of chaos, based on the statistical theory of energy spectra, presents inconsistencies difficult to overcome. In classical mechanics a system described by an hamiltonian $H = H_1 + H_2$…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Francesco Mezzadri , Antonio Scotti

Uncontrolled geostationary satellites abandoned near an unstable equilibrium point of the equator experience irregular transitions between dynamical states (continuous circulation, long and short libration). They are caused by the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Roberto Flores , Jerome Daquin , Mauro Pontani , Hadi Susanto , Elena Fantino

Chaos and complexity entail an entropic and computational obstruction to describing a system, and thus are intrinsically difficult to characterize. In this paper, we consider time evolution by Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE) Hamiltonians…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-16 Jordan Cotler , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Junyu Liu , Beni Yoshida