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We present a general analysis of the bifurcation sequences of periodic orbits in general position of a family of reversible 1:1 resonant Hamiltonian normal forms invariant under $\Z_2\times\Z_2$ symmetry. The rich structure of these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-14 Giuseppe Pucacco , Antonella Marchesiello

We consider a potential $W:R^m\rightarrow R$ with two different global minima $a_-, a_+$ and, under a symmetry assumption, we use a variational approach to show that the Hamiltonian system \begin{equation} \ddot{u}=W_u(u), \hskip 2cm (1)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Giorgio Fusco , Giovanni F. Gronchi , Matteo Novaga

Variational and perturbative relativistic energies are computed and compared for two-electron atoms and molecules with low nuclear charge numbers. In general, good agreement of the two approaches is observed. Remaining deviations can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Dávid Ferenc , Péter Jeszenszki , Edit Mátyus

In this article, we review the analytical and numerical approaches for computing the phase space structures in two degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems that arise in chemical reactions. In particular, these phase space structures are the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-14 Wenyang Lyu , Shibabrat Naik , Stephen Wiggins

We present the applications of variational--wavelet approach to nonlinear (rational) model for spin-orbital motion: orbital dynamics and Thomas-BMT equations for classical spin vector. We represent the solution of this dynamical system in…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

In this paper we study two electrons on a line on the same side of the nucleus which interact with each other by their mean value. We prove that there exists a unique periodic orbit and examine for which charges the two orbits of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Urs Frauenfelder

We investigate a singularly perturbed, non-convex variational problem arising in materials science with a combination of geometrical and numerical methods. Our starting point is a work by Stefan M\"uller, where it is proven that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Annalisa Iuorio , Christian Kuehn , Peter Szmolyan

We consider spatially homogeneous Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) models that perturb General Relativity (GR) by a parameter $v\in (0,1)$ such that GR occurs at $v=1/2$. We describe the dynamics for the extremal case $v=0$, which possess the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Kevin E. M. Church , Olivier Hénot , Phillipo Lappicy , Jean-Philippe Lessard , Hauke Sprink

We seek frozen planet orbits for the helium atom through an application of the Mountain Pass Lemma to the Lagrangian action functional. Our method applies to a wide class of gravitational-like interaction potentials thus generalising the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Stefano Baranzini , Gian Marco Canneori , Susanna Terracini

This revision includes clarified exposition and simplified analysis. Solutions of the Einstein equations which are periodic and have standing gravitational waves are valuable approximations to more physically realistic solutions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler

An analytical approximation to periodic orbits in the circular restricted three-body problem is provided. The formulation given in this work is based in calculations known from classical mechanics, but with the addition of the necessary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erick Nagel , Barbara Pichardo

We prove the existence of periodic orbits of the two fixed centers problem bifurcating from the Kepler problem. We provide the analytical expressions of these periodic orbits when the mass parameter of the system is sufficiently small.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-06 Fabao Gao , Jaume Llibre

The recent literature on near-term applications for quantum computers contains several examples of the applications of hybrid quantum/classical variational approaches. This methodology can be applied to a variety of optimization problems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Giacomo Nannicini

We study periodic orbits for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms, particularly some global properities related to the action function and rotation numbers. We generalize recent works of Machel Hutchings [4], proving the existence of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Huadi Qu

We examine the $N$-vortex problem on general domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ concerning the existence of nonstationary collision-free periodic solutions. The problem in question is a first order Hamiltonian system of the form $$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Björn Gebhard

We apply Arnold's theory of generic smooth plane curves to Stark-Zeeman systems. This is a class of Hamiltonian dynamical systems that describes the dynamics of an electron in an external electric and magnetic field, and includes many…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Kai Cieliebak , Urs Frauenfelder , Otto van Koert

We study periodic, two-dimensional, gravity-capillary traveling wave solutions to a viscous shallow water system posed on an inclined plane. While thinking of the Reynolds and Bond numbers as fixed and finite, we vary the speed of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Noah Stevenson

The effective Hamiltonian of $m\alpha^6$ and $m\alpha^6(m/M)$ order corrections for hydrogen molecular ions has been derived in [ Z.-X. Zhong, \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. A {\bf98}, 032502(2018).], in this work we express the energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Zhen-Xiang Zhong , Ping Yang , Vladimir I. Korobov , Chun Li , Ting-Yun Shi

In this paper we use a traveling wave reduction or a so-called spatial approximation to comprehensively investigate the periodic solutions of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. The primary tools used here are Hopf…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-10-07 Stefan C. Mancas , S. Roy Choudhury

The Bethe equations for the isotropic periodic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with N sites have solutions containing i/2, -i/2 that are singular: both the corresponding energy and the algebraic Bethe ansatz vector are divergent. Such solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-10 Rafael I. Nepomechie , Chunguang Wang