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The stable operation of the electric power grid relies on a precisely synchronized state of all generators and machines. All machines rotate at exactly the same frequency with fixed phase differences, leading to steady power flows…
The harmonic oscillator is a powerful model that can appear as a limit case when examining a nonlinear system. A well known fact is, that without driving, the inclusion of a friction term makes the origin of the phase space -- which is a…
We present an analogy between natural oscillations of the standing wave type on a pool of liquid with an interface and a mechanical oscillator model. It is shown that the equations of motion governing both systems have qualitatively similar…
We investigate stationary states of the linear damped stochastic oscillator driven by L\'evy noises. In the long time limit kinetic and potential energies of the oscillator do not fulfill the equipartition theorem and their distributions…
Power system oscillations are a significant concern for system operators, a problem that has grown due to the interconnection of inverter-based resources. To address this issue, various methods have been proposed to locate the sources of…
The quantization of a constant of motion for the harmonic oscillator with a time-explicitly depending external force is carried out. This quantization approach is compared with the normal Hamiltonian quantization approach. Numerical results…
Pulses applied to an inhomogeneously broadened set of harmonic oscillators, previously prepared in squeezed states, can lead to a recovery of coherence, manifesting itself as echoes, similar to those exhibited by an ensemble of spins when…
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…
Certifying power flow solvability is important for reliable power system operations under volatile operating conditions, but solving power flow equations repeatedly can be costly and may encounter convergence issues. In this paper, we…
We study the dynamics of a mechanical oscillator with linear and cubic forces -the Duffing oscillator- subject to a feedback mechanism that allows the system to sustain autonomous periodic motion with well-defined amplitude and frequency.…
This paper presents a novel design of an electronic circuit that is equivalent to a mechanical discontinuous impact oscillator exhibiting hard impacts. The governing equations of the electronic circuit are derived to demonstrate its…
Non-linear effects on driven oscillations are important in many fields of physics, ranging from applied mechanics to optics. They are instrumental for quantum applications. A limitation is that the non-linearities known up to now are…
The present investigation deals with the dynamics of a two-degrees-of-freedom system which consists of a main linear oscillator and a strongly nonlinear absorber with small mass. The nonlinear oscillator has a softening hysteretic…
An optomechanical oscillator undergoes a Hopf bifurcation that connects two dynamical regimes with different information-processing capabilities: thermal Brownian motion and coherent self-sustained oscillation. Below threshold, the…
Inspired by the observation of a distributed time delay in the nonlinear response of an optical resonator, we investigate the effects of a similar delay on a noise-driven mechanical oscillator. For a delay time that is commensurate with the…
It is intuitively imagined that the energy of a classical object always takes continues values and can hardly be confined to discrete ones like the energy levels of microscopic systems. Here, we demonstrate that such classical energy levels…
In this paper, we derive a variational integrator for certain highly oscillatory problems in mechanics. To do this, we take a new approach to the splitting of fast and slow potential forces: rather than splitting these forces at the level…
Conventionally while we talk about geometry associated with a simple harmonic oscillator, we draw a circle with a radius equal to the amplitude of Oscillator and imagine a particle moving along the perimeter with a frequency same as that of…
The rich non-linear dynamics of the coupled oscillators (under second harmonic injection) can be leveraged to solve computationally hard problems in combinatorial optimization such as finding the ground state of the Ising Hamiltonian. While…
The eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a linear {\alpha}^{2}-dynamo have been computed for different spatial distributions of an isotropic \alpha-effect. Oscillatory solutions are obtained when \alpha exhibits a sign change in the radial…