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We consider systems characterized by the presence of a rapidly oscillating force. A general method is presented for the construction of the effective action governing the large-scale nonlinear dynamics of such systems order by order in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-29 Afshin Besharat , Alexander A. Penin

A non--linear diffusion equation is derived by taking into account hopping rates depending on the occupation of next neighbouring sites. There appears additonal repulsive and attractive forces leading to a changed local mobiltiy. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Artz , M. Schulz , S. Trimper

It is shown that the time-dependent equations (Schr\"odinger and Dirac) for a quantum system can be always derived from the time-independent equation for the larger object of the system interacting with its environment, in the limit that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 John S Briggs , Jan M Rost

Deterministic diffusion in temporally oscillating convection is studied for particles with finite mass. The particles are assumed to obey a simple dissipative dynamical system and the particle diffusion is induced by the strange attractor.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

We analyze the dynamics of a driven, damped pendulum as used in mechanical clocks. We derive equations for the amplitude and phase of the oscillation, on time scales longer than the pendulum period. The equations are first order ODEs and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 Peter Hoyng

We study the work distribution of a single particle moving in a harmonic oscillator with time-dependent strength. This simple system has a non-Gaussian work distribution with exponential tails. The time evolution of the corresponding moment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 Thomas Speck

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

We develop a reduced model for the slow unsteady dynamics of an isotropic chemically active particle near the threshold for spontaneous motion. Building on the steady theory developed in part I of this series, we match a weakly nonlinear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-24 Gunnar G. Peng , Ory Schnitzer

We derive a system with one degree of freedom that models a class of dynamical systems with strange attractors in three dimensions. This system retains all the characteristics of chaotic attractors and is expressed by a second-order…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Nicola Romanazzi

We analyze the problem of one dimensional quantum particle falling in a constant gravitational field, also known as the {\it bouncing ball}, employing a semiclassical approach known as momentous effective quantum mechanics. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Guillermo Chacon-Acosta , Hector Hernandez-Hernandez , Mercedes Velazquez

In the present paper a simple dynamical model for computing the osmotically driven fluid flow in a variety of complex, non equilibrium situations is derived from first principles. Using the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation, the basic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-06 Stephan I. Tzenov

The time dependent-integrals of motion, linear in position and momentum operators, of a quantum system are extracted from Noether's theorem prescription by means of special time-dependent variations of coordinates. For the stationary case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Castaños , R. López-Peña , V. I. Man'ko

Propulsion of otherwise passive objects is achieved by mechanisms of active driving. We concentrate on cases in which the direction of active drive is subject to spontaneous symmetry breaking. In our case, this direction will be maintained,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Andreas M. Menzel

For a process U(t,s) acting on a one-parameter family of normed spaces, we present a notion of time-dependent attractor based only on the minimality with respect to the pullback attraction property. Such an attractor is shown to be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-09-27 Monica Conti , Vittorino Pata , Roger Temam

An ordinary differential equation perturbed by a null-recurrent diffusion will be considered in the case where the averaging type perturbation is strong only when a fast motion is close to the origin. The normal deviations of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai , Michael Salins

In this paper, we use the fractional calculus to discuss the fractional mechanics, where the time derivative is replaced with the fractional derivative of order $\nu$. We deal with the motion of a body in a resisting medium where the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Won Sang Chung , Min Jung

We consider a charged particle driven by a time-dependent flux threading a quantum ring. The dynamics of the charged particle is investigated using classical treatment, Fourier expansion technique, time-evolution method, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-29 Pi-Gang Luan , Chi-Shung Tang

In this paper we are concerned with the asymptotic behavior of nonautonomous fractional approximations of oscillon equation $$ u_{tt}-\mu(t)\Delta u+\omega(t)u_t=f(u),\ x\in\Omega,\ t\in\mathbb{R}, $$ subject to Dirichlet boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Flank D. M. Bezerra , Rodiak N. Figueroa-López , Marcelo J. D. Nascimento

The friction force is derived using fractional calculus by considering the non-uniform flow of time in dissipative processes. The approach incorporates inhomogeneous velocity without unphysical approximations, resulting in a Lagrangian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Georgii Koniukov

Time-dependent potentials are common in galactic systems that undergo significant evolution, interactions, or encounters with other galaxies, or when there are dynamic processes like star formation and merging events. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Eduárd Illés , Dániel Jánosi , Tamás Kovács