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Optomechanical coupling between the motion of a mechanical oscillator and a cavity represents a new arena for experimental investigation of quantum effects on the mesoscopic and macroscopic scale.The motional sidebands of the output of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 E. B. Aranas , P. G. Z. Fonseca , P. F. Barker , T. S. Monteiro

We consider a standard optomechanical system where a mechanical oscillator is coupled to a cavity mode through the radiation pressure interaction. The oscillator is coherently driven at its resonance frequency, whereas the cavity mode is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Kjetil Borkje

We prove that spiral sinks (stable foci of vector fields) can be transformed into strange attractors exhibiting sustained, observable chaos if subjected to periodic pulsatile forcing. We show that this phenomenon occurs in the context of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 William Ott

The adaptive perturbation method decomposes a Hamiltonian by the diagonal elements and non-diagonal elements of the Fock state. The diagonal elements of the Fock state are solvable but can contain the information about coupling constants.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-25 Chen-Te Ma

Continuous attractors offer a unique class of solutions for storing continuous-valued variables in recurrent system states for indefinitely long time intervals. Unfortunately, continuous attractors suffer from severe structural instability…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-25 Ábel Ságodi , Guillermo Martín-Sánchez , Piotr Sokół , Il Memming Park

The clogging behavior of a symmetric binary mixture of particles that are driven in opposite directions through constrictions is explored by Brownian dynamics simulations and theory. A dynamical state with a spontaneously broken symmetry…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Tobias Glanz , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We study an unusual but robust phenomenon that appears in an example system of four coupled phase oscillators. We show that the system can have a robust attractor that responds to a specific detuning between certain pairs of the oscillators…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Karabacak , P. Ashwin

Small differential conductance oscillations as a function of source-drain bias were observed and systematically studied in an asymmetric quantum point contact (QPC). These oscillations become significantly suppressed in a small in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hao Zhang , Phillip M. Wu , Albert M. Chang

State-dependent time-impulsive perturbations to a two-dimensional autonomous flow with stable and unstable manifolds are analysed by posing in terms of an integral equation which is valid in both forwards- and backwards-time. The impulses…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Sanjeeva Balasuriya

We analyze a multiparameter periodically-forced dynamical system inspired in the SIR endemic model. We show that the condition on the \emph{basic reproduction number} $\mathcal{R}_0 < 1$ is not sufficient to guarantee the elimination of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-23 João P. S. Maurício de Carvalho , Alexandre A. Rodrigues

In this paper we present a comprehensive mechanism for the emergence of strange attractors in a two-parametric family of differential equations acting on a three-dimensional sphere. When both parameters are zero, its flow exhibits an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems with symmetry is a cornerstone phenomenon accompanying second-order phase transitions. Here, we predict the opposite phenomenon, namely, spontaneous symmetry emergence in a system that lacks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 T. T. Sergeev , E. S. Andrianov , A. A. Zyablovsky

Diffusion-driven patterns appear on curved surfaces in many settings, initiated by unstable modes of an underlying Laplacian operator. On a flat surface or perfect sphere, the patterns are degenerate, reflecting translational/rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Leyna Shackleton

This study investigates the synchronization dynamics of coupled-oscillator systems in which some of the oscillators are damaged and lose their autonomous oscillations. The damaged elements are modeled using damped oscillators; thus, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-18 Shota Inagawa , Hiroki Hata , Shigefumi Hata

The inspiration for this theoretical paper comes from recent experiments on a PT-symmetric system of two coupled optical whispering galleries (optical resonators). The optical system can be modeled as a pair of coupled linear oscillators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Carl M. Bender , Mariagiovanna Gianfreda

The Duffing oscillator describes the dynamics of a mass suspended on a spring with position-dependent stiffness. The mass is assumed to experience a linear damping and a time-dependent external forcing. The model has been instrumental in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Alain M. Dikandé

A long-time behavior of solutions to a nonlinear plate model subject to non-conservative and non-dissipative effects and nonlinear damping is considered. The model under study is a prototype for a suspension bridge under the effects of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Irena Lasiecka , Jose H. Rodrigues , Madhumita Roy

The effect of symmetry on the resonance spectra of antiferromagnetically coupled oscillators has attracted new interest with the discovery of symmetry-breaking induced anti-crossings. Here, we experimentally characterise the resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 J P. Patchett , M. Drouhin , J. W. Liao , Z. Soban , D. Petit , J. Haigh , P. Roy , J. Wunderlich , R. P. Cowburn , C. Ciccarelli

The spontaneous breaking of non-invertible symmetries can lead to exotic phenomena such as coexistence of order and disorder. Here we explore second-order phase transitions in 1d spin chains between two phases that correspond to distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Hsueh Chen , Tarun Grover

Two manifestations of decoherence, called instantaneous and dynamical, are investigated. The former reflects the suppression of the interference between the components of the current state while the latter reflects that within the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Janos Polonyi