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Exploring chaotic systems via Poincar\'e sections has proven essential in dynamical systems, yet measuring their characteristics poses challenges to identify the various dynamical regimes considered. In this paper, we propose a new approach…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-23 André Farinha Bósio , Iberê Luiz Caldas , Ricardo Luiz Viana , Yves Elskens

The presence of chaos in classical Hamiltonian systems is witnessed by its maximal Lyapunov exponent, that quantifies the instability of motion through the exponential growth of indicators such as the trace of the stability matrix or the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Thomas R. Michel , Mathias Steinhuber , Juan Diego Urbina , Peter Schlagheck

We investigate the orbits of compact binary systems during the final inspiral period before coalescence by integrating numerically the second-order post-Newtonian equations of motion. We include spin-orbit and spin-spin coupling terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Frederic A. Rasio

Formation of chaos in the parametric dependent system of interacting oscillators for the both classical and quantum cases has been investigated. Domain in which classical motion is chaotic is defined. It has been shown that for certain…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , V. Bochorishvili , A. Sagaradze

Quantized, compact graphs were shown to be excellent paradigms for quantum chaos in bounded systems. Connecting them with leads to infinity we show that they display all the features which characterize scattering systems with an underlying…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Tsampikos Kottos , U. Smilansky

Long-term stability studies of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems require symplectic integration algorithms which are both fast and accurate. In this paper, we study a symplectic integration method wherein the symplectic map representing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Govindan Rangarajan

Using the classical tools of nonlinear dynamics, we study the process of self-organization and the appearance of the chaos in the metabolic process in a cell with the help of a mathematical model of the transformation of steroids by a cell…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-15 V. I. Grytsay , I. V. Musatenko

We consider the motion of a particle subjected to the constant gravitational field and scattered inelasticaly by hard boundaries which possess the shape of parabola, wedge, and hyperbola. The billiard itself performs oscillations. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Z. Gorski , T. Srokowski

We consider a basic model of the lossless interaction between a moving two-level atom and a standing-wave single-mode laser field. Classical treatment of the translational atomic motion provides the semiclassical Hamilton-Schrodinger…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 S. V. Prants

The evolution of the five largest satellites of Uranus during the crossing of the 5/3 mean motion resonance between Ariel and Umbriel is strongly affected by chaotic motion. Studies with numerical integrations of the equations of motion and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Sérgio R. A. Gomes , Alexandre C. M. Correia

Stationary wave solutions of the perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation are considered in the presence of external hamiltonian perturbations. Conditions of their chaotic behaviour are studied with the help of Melnikov theory. For the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. B. Blyuss

We investigate the chaotic dynamics of the massless test particles moving in the regular black hole supported by a Dehnen-type dark matter halo. By limiting the particle within a external harmonic potential, we employ Poincar\'e sections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Aofei Sang , Ziyi Fang

Phase space representations of the dynamics of the quantal and classical cat map are used to explore quantum--classical correspondence in a K-system: as $\hbar \to 0$, the classical chaotic behavior is shown to emerge smoothly and exactly.…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Arjendu K. Pattanayak , Paul Brumer

A system plus environment conservative model is used to characterize the nonlinear dynamics when the time averaged energy for the system particle starts to decay. The system particle dynamics is regular for low values of the $N$ environment…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-20 Cesar Manchein , Jane Rosa , Marcus W. Beims

For a given a normally hyperbolic invariant manifold, whose stable and unstable manifolds intersect transversally, we consider several tools and techniques to detect trajectories with prescribed itineraries: the scattering map, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-04-09 Amadeu Delshams , Marian Gidea , Pablo Roldan

This paper summarises an investigation of the effects of low amplitude noise and periodic driving on phase space transport in 3-D Hamiltonian systems, a problem directly applicable to systems like galaxies, where such perturbations reflect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henry E. Kandrup , Ilya V. Pogorelov , Ioannis Sideris

The regular or chaotic dynamics of an analytical realistic three dimensional model composed of a spherically symmetric central nucleus, a bar and a flat disk is investigated. For describing the properties of the bar we introduce a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Christof Jung , Euaggelos E. Zotos

(Abridged) This paper studies chaotic orbit ensembles evolved in triaxial generalisations of the Dehnen potential which have been proposed to model ellipticals with a strong density cusp that manifest significant deviations from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christos Siopis , Henry E. Kandrup

We study dynamics of a ball moving in gravitational field and colliding with a moving table. The motion of the limiter is assumed as periodic with piecewise constant velocity - it is assumed that the table moves up with a constant velocity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-04 Andrzej Okninski , Boguslaw Radziszewski

We use so-called geometrical approach in description of transition from regular motion to chaotic in Hamiltonian systems with potential energy surface that has several local minima. Distinctive feature of such systems is coexistence of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Berezovoj , Yu. L. Bolotin , G. I. Ivashkevych