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Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Gerard t Hooft

A quantum-mechanical system comes naturally equipped with a convex space: each (Hermitian) operator has a (real) expectation value, and the expectation value of the square any Hermitian operator must be non-negative. This space is of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-05 Scott Lawrence

Our work deals with the dynamical system analysis of quintessence dark energy scalar field model with exponential potential. A dynamical system analysis has been applied at the background level. Using suitable transformation of variables,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Soumya Chakraborty , Sudip Mishra , Subenoy Chakraborty

Contraction theory is a recently developed dynamic analysis and nonlinear control system design tool based on an exact differential analysis of convergence. This paper extends contraction theory to local and global stability analysis of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Winfried Lohmiller , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

The dynamics of the spin-boson Hamiltonian is considered in the stochastic approximation. The Hamiltonian describes a two-level system coupled to an environment and is widely used in physics, chemistry and the theory of quantum measurement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. Accardi , S. V. Kozyrev , I. V. Volovich

Stiff forces, which bind objects together or otherwise confine motion, are found widely in soft-matter systems - colloids with short range attractions, ligand-receptor contacts, particles in optical traps, fibres that resist stretching,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-15 Sophie Marbach , Adam Carter , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

This paper studies the projected saddle-point dynamics associated to a convex-concave function, which we term saddle function. The dynamics consists of gradient descent of the saddle function in variables corresponding to convexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Ashish Cherukuri , Enrique Mallada , Steven Low , Jorge Cortes

This paper aims to introduce a concept of an equilibrium point of a dynamical system which will call it almost global asymptotically stable. A biological prey-predator model is also analyzed with a modification function growth in prey…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Sadiq Al-Nassir

We study general properties of attractors for tachyonic potential chameleon scalar-field model which possess cosmological scaling solutions. An analytic formulation is given to obtain fixed points with a discussion on their stability. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 H. Farajollahi , A. Salehi , F. Tayebi , A. Ravanpak

A succesful method to describe the asymptotic behavior of a discrete time stochastic process governed by some recursive formula is to relate it to the limit sets of a well chosen mean differential equation. Under an attainability condition,…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-19 Mathieu Faure , Gregory Roth

We analyze the dynamical equations obeyed by a classical system with position-dependent mass. It is shown that there is a non-conservative force quadratic in the velocity associated to the variable mass. We construct the Lagrangian and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Sara Cruz y Cruz , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

Hamiltonian mechanics describes the evolution of a system through its Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian typically also represents the energy observable, a Noether-conserved quantity associated with the time-invariance of the law of evolution. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Libo Jiang , Daniel R. Terno , Oscar Dahlsten

This paper provides an enjoyable example through which several concepts of classical mechanics can be understood. We introduce an equation that models the motion of a cat in the presence of a person. The cat is considered as a point…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-11-06 Anxo Biasi

Dynamical properties, such as dynamical spin and charge structure factors and single-particle spectral functions, are studied for the one-dimensional supersymmetric t-J model with inverse-square interaction. Exact diagonalization and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yasuhiro Saiga , Yoshio Kuramoto

We study the long-time dynamics of a bulk-surface convective Cahn--Hilliard system describing phase separation processes with bulk-surface interaction. The presence of convection terms leads to a non-autonomous dynamical system and prevents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Poiatti , Jonas Stange , Sema Yayla

One of the foremost goals of research in physics is to find the most basic and universal theories that describe our universe. Many theories assume the presence of an absolute space and time in which the physical objects are located and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Sahand Tokasi , Peter Pickl

We optimize three-dimensional snake kinematics for locomotor efficiency. We assume a general space-curve representation of the snake backbone with small-to-moderate lifting off the ground and negligible body inertia. The cost of locomotion…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Silas Alben

Hamiltonian systems describe a broad class of dynamical systems governed by Hamiltonian functions, which encode the total energy and dictate the evolution of the system. Data-driven approaches, such as symbolic regression and neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jasen Lai , Senwei Liang , Chunmei Wang

We extend some aspects of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory to the category of stochastic Hamiltonian dynamical systems. More specifically, we show that the stochastic action satisfies the Hamilton-Jacobi equation when, as in the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-06 Joan-Andreu Lázaro-Camí , Juan-Pablo Ortega

Snakes are a remarkable evolutionary success story. Many snake-inspired robots have been proposed over the years. Soft robotic snakes (SRS) with their continuous and smooth bending capability better mimic their biological counterparts'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Dimuthu D. Arachchige , Yue Chen , Isuru S. Godage