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Memristor Circuits for Simulating Nonlinear Dynamics and Their Periodic Forcing: In this paper, we show that the dynamics of a wide variety of nonlinear systems such as engineering, physical, chemical, biological, and ecological systems, can be simulated or modeled by the dynamics of memristor circuits. It has the advantage that we can apply nonlinear circuit theory to analyze the dynamics of memristor circuits. Applying an external source to these memristor circuits, they exhibit complex behavior, such as chaos and non-periodic oscillation. If the memristor circuits have an integral invariant, they can exhibit quasi-periodic or non-periodic behavior by the sinusoidal forcing. Their behavior greatly depends on the initial conditions, the parameters, and the maximum step size of the numerical integration. Furthermore, an overflow is likely to occur due to the numerical instability in long-time simulations. In order to generate a non-periodic oscillation, we have to choose the initial conditions, the parameters, and the maximum step size, carefully. We also show that we can reconstruct chaotic attractors by using the terminal voltage and current of the memristor. Furthermore, in many memristor circuits, the active memristor switches between passive and active modes of operation, depending on its terminal voltage. We can measure its complexity order by defining the binary coding for the operation modes. By using this coding, we show that in the forced memristor Toda lattice equations, the memristor's operation modes exhibit the higher complexity. Furthermore, in the memristor Chua circuit, the memristor has the special operation modes.
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Mode selectivity of dynamically induced conformation in many-body chain-like bead-spring model: We consider conformation of a chain consisting of beads connected by stiff springs, where the conformation is determined by the bending angles between the consecutive two springs. A conformation is stabilized or destabilized not only by a given bending potential but also the fast spring motion, and stabilization by the spring motion depends on their excited normal modes. This stabilization mechanism has been named the dynamically induced conformation in a previous work on a three-body system. We extend analyses of the dynamically induced conformation in many-body chain-like bead-spring systems. The normal modes of the springs depend on the conformation, and the simple rule of the dynamical stabilization is that the lowest eigenfrequency mode contributes to the stabilization of the conformation. The high the eigenfrequency is, the more the destabilization emerges. We verify theoretical predictions by performing numerical simulations.
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Recurrence-time statistics in non-Hamiltonian volume preserving maps and flows: We analyze the recurrence-time statistics (RTS) in three-dimensional non-Hamiltonian volume preserving systems (VPS): an extended standard map, and a fluid model. The extended map is a standard map weakly coupled to an extra-dimension which contains a deterministic regular, mixed (regular and chaotic) or chaotic motion. The extra-dimension strongly enhances the trapping times inducing plateaus and distinct algebraic and exponential decays in the RTS plots. The combined analysis of the RTS with the classification of ordered and chaotic regimes and scaling properties, allows us to describe the intricate way trajectories penetrate the before impenetrable regular islands from the uncoupled case. Essentially the plateaus found in the RTS are related to trajectories that stay long times inside trapping tubes, not allowing recurrences, and then penetrates diffusively the islands (from the uncoupled case) by a diffusive motion along such tubes in the extra-dimension. All asymptotic exponential decays for the RTS are related to an ordered regime (quasi-regular motion) and a mixing dynamics is conjectured for the model. These results are compared to the RTS of the standard map with dissipation or noise, showing the peculiarities obtained by using three-dimensional VPS. We also analyze the RTS for a fluid model and show remarkable similarities to the RTS in the extended standard map problem.
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Sublattice synchronization of chaotic networks with delayed couplings: Synchronization of chaotic units coupled by their time delayed variables are investigated analytically. A new type of cooperative behavior is found: sublattice synchronization. Although the units of one sublattice are not directly coupled to each other, they completely synchronize without time delay. The chaotic trajectories of different sublattices are only weakly correlated but not related by generalized synchronization. Nevertheless, the trajectory of one sublattice is predictable from the complete trajectory of the other one. The spectra of Lyapunov exponents are calculated analytically in the limit of infinite delay times, and phase diagrams are derived for different topologies.
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Amplitude and phase dynamics in oscillators with distributed-delay coupling: This paper studies the effects of distributed delay coupling on the dynamics in a system of non-identical coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators. For uniform and gamma delay distribution kernels, conditions for amplitude death are obtained in terms of average frequency, frequency detuning and parameters of the coupling, including coupling strength and phase, as well as the mean time delay and the width of the delay distribution. To gain further insight into the dynamics inside amplitude death regions, eigenvalues of the corresponding characteristic equations are computed numerically. Oscillatory dynamics of the system is also investigated using amplitude and phase representation. Various branches of phase-locked solutions are identified, and their stability is analysed for different types of delay distributions.
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Variational Principles for Lagrangian Averaged Fluid Dynamics: The Lagrangian average (LA) of the ideal fluid equations preserves their transport structure. This transport structure is responsible for the Kelvin circulation theorem of the LA flow and, hence, for its convection of potential vorticity and its conservation of helicity. Lagrangian averaging also preserves the Euler-Poincar\'e (EP) variational framework that implies the LA fluid equations. This is expressed in the Lagrangian-averaged Euler-Poincar\'e (LAEP) theorem proven here and illustrated for the Lagrangian average Euler (LAE) equations.
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Experimental investigation of nodal domains in the chaotic microwave rough billiard: We present the results of experimental study of nodal domains of wave functions (electric field distributions) lying in the regime of Shnirelman ergodicity in the chaotic half-circular microwave rough billiard. Nodal domains are regions where a wave function has a definite sign. The wave functions Psi_N of the rough billiard were measured up to the level number N=435. In this way the dependence of the number of nodal domains \aleph_N on the level number $N$ was found. We show that in the limit N->infty a least squares fit of the experimental data reveals the asymptotic number of nodal domains aleph_N/N = 0.058 +- 0.006 that is close to the theoretical prediction aleph_N/N +- 0.062. We also found that the distributions of the areas s of nodal domains and their perimeters l have power behaviors n_s ~ s^{-tau} and n_l ~ l^{-tau'}, where scaling exponents are equal to \tau = 1.99 +- 0.14 and \tau'=2.13 +- 0.23, respectively. These results are in a good agreement with the predictions of percolation theory. Finally, we demonstrate that for higher level numbers N = 220-435 the signed area distribution oscillates around the theoretical limit Sigma_{A} = 0.0386 N^{-1}.
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On scaling and statistical geometry in passive scalar turbulence: We show that the statistics of a turbulent passive scalar at scales larger than the pumping may exhibit multiscaling due to a weaker mechanism than the presence of statistical conservation laws. We develop a general formalism to give explicit predictions for the large scale scaling exponents in the case of the Kraichnan model and discuss their geometric origin at small and large scale.
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A consistent approach for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards: The standard description of Fermi acceleration, developing in a class of time-dependent billiards, is given in terms of a diffusion process taking place in momentum space. Within this framework the evolution of the probability density function (PDF) of the magnitude of particle velocities as a function of the number of collisions $n$ is determined by the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE). In the literature the FPE is constructed by identifying the transport coefficients with the ensemble averages of the change of the magnitude of particle velocity and its square in the course of one collision. Although this treatment leads to the correct solution after a sufficiently large number of collisions has been reached, the transient part of the evolution of the PDF is not described. Moreover, in the case of the Fermi-Ulam model (FUM), if a stadanrd simplification is employed, the solution of the FPE is even inconsistent with the values of the transport coefficients used for its derivation. The goal of our work is to provide a self-consistent methodology for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards. The proposed approach obviates any assumptions for the continuity of the random process and the existence of the limits formally defining the transport coefficients of the FPE. Specifically, we suggest, instead of the calculation of ensemble averages, the derivation of the one-step transition probability function and the use of the Chapman-Kolmogorov forward equation. This approach is generic and can be applied to any time-dependent billiard for the treatment of Fermi-acceleration. As a first step, we apply this methodology to the FUM, being the archetype of time-dependent billiards to exhibit Fermi acceleration.
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Universality in spectral statistics of "open" quantum graphs: The unitary evolution maps in closed chaotic quantum graphs are known to have universal spectral correlations, as predicted by random matrix theory. In chaotic graphs with absorption the quantum maps become non-unitary. We show that their spectral statistics exhibit universality at the "soft" edges of the spectrum. The same spectral behavior is observed in many classical non-unitary ensembles of random matrices with rotationally invariant measures.
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Two-cluster regular states, chimeras and hyperchaos in a system of globally coupled phase oscillators with inertia: In this work, two-cluster modes are studied in a system of globally coupled Kuramoto-Sakaguchi phase oscillators with inertia. It is shown that these regimes can be of two types: with a constant intercluster phase difference rotating at the same frequency (according to the analysis, such regimes are always unstable) and with a periodically changing (taking into account the multiplicity of $2\pi$) phase mismatch. The issues of existence and stability, emergence and destruction of two-cluster modes are studied depending on the parameters: effective mass (responsible for inertial processes in the model system under consideration) and phase shift in the coupling function. The analytical results are confirmed and supplemented by numerical simulation of the rotators (second order) interacting globally through the mean field.
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Circular, elliptic and oval billiards in a gravitational field: We consider classical dynamical properties of a particle in a constant gravitational force and making specular reflections with circular, elliptic or oval boundaries. The model and collision map are described and a detailed study of the energy regimes is made. The linear stability of fixed points is studied, yielding exact analytical expressions for parameter values at which a period-doubling bifurcation occurs. The dynamics is apparently ergodic at certain energies in all three models, in contrast to the regularity of the circular and elliptic billiard dynamics in the field-free case. This finding is confirmed using a sensitive test involving Lyapunov weighted dynamics. In the last part of the paper a time dependence is introduced in the billiard boundary, where it is shown that for the circular billiard the average velocity saturates for zero gravitational force but in the presence of gravitational it increases with a very slow growth rate, which may be explained using Arnold diffusion. For the oval billiard, where chaos is present in the static case, the particle has an unlimited velocity growth with an exponent of approximately 1/6.
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Regions of multistability in some low-dimensional logistic models with excitation type coupling: A naive model of many networked logistic maps with an excitation type coupling [Neural Networks, vol. 20, 102--108 (2007)], which is an extension of other low dimensional models, has been recently proposed to mimic the waking-sleeping bistability found in brain systems. Although the dynamics of large and complex aggregates of elementary components can not be understood nor extrapolated from the properties of a few components, some patterns of behavior could be conserved independently of the topology and of the number of coupled units. Following this insight, we have collected several of those systems where a few logistic maps are coupled under a similar mutual excitation scheme. The regions of bi- and multistability of these systems are sketched and reported.
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Synchronization induced by intermittent versus partial drives in chaotic systems: We show that the synchronized states of two systems of identical chaotic maps subject to either, a common drive that acts with a probability p in time or to the same drive acting on a fraction p of the maps, are similar. The synchronization behavior of both systems can be inferred by considering the dynamics of a single chaotic map driven with a probability p. The synchronized states for these systems are characterized on their common space of parameters. Our results show that the presence of a common external drive for all times is not essential for reaching synchronization in a system of chaotic oscillators, nor is the simultaneous sharing of the drive by all the elements in the system. Rather, a crucial condition for achieving synchronization is the sharing of some minimal, average information by the elements in the system over long times.
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Statistics of quantum recurrences in the Hilbert space: This paper has been withdrawn by the authors due to a crucial error.
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Parameter Estimation in Models with Complex Dynamics: Mathematical models of real life phenomena are highly nonlinear involving multiple parameters and often exhibiting complex dynamics. Experimental data sets are typically small and noisy, rendering estimation of parameters from such data unreliable and difficult. This paper presents a study of the Bayesian posterior distribution for unknown parameters of two chaotic discrete dynamical systems conditioned on observations of the system. The study shows how the qualitative properties of the posterior are affected by the intrinsic noise present in the data, the representation of this noise in the parameter estimation process, and the length of the data-set. The results indicate that increasing length of dataset does not significantly increase the precision of the estimate, and this is true for both periodic and chaotic data. On the other hand, increasing precision of the measurements leads to significant increase in precision of the estimated parameter in case of periodic data, but not in the case of chaotic data. These results are highly useful in designing laboratory and field-based studies in biology in general, and ecology and conservation in particular.
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Experimental realization of a highly secure chaos communication under strong channel noise: A one-way coupled spatiotemporally chaotic map lattice is used to contruct cryptosystem. With the combinatorial applications of both chaotic computations and conventional algebraic operations, our system has optimal cryptographic properties much better than the separative applications of known chaotic and conventional methods. We have realized experiments to pratice duplex voice secure communications in realistic Wired Public Switched Telephone Network by applying our chaotic system and the system of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), respectively, for cryptography. Our system can work stably against strong channel noise when AES fails to work.
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A Tube Dynamics Perspective Governing Stability Transitions: An Example Based on Snap-through Buckling: The equilibrium configuration of an engineering structure, able to withstand a certain loading condition, is usually associated with a local minimum of the underlying potential energy. However, in the nonlinear context, there may be other equilibria present, and this brings with it the possibility of a transition to an alternative (remote) minimum. That is, given a sufficient disturbance, the structure might buckle, perhaps suddenly, to another shape. This paper considers the dynamic mechanisms under which such transitions (typically via saddle points) occur. A two-mode Hamiltonian is developed for a shallow arch/buckled beam. The resulting form of the potential energy---two stable wells connected by rank-1 saddle points---shows an analogy with resonance transitions in celestial mechanics or molecular reconfigurations in chemistry, whereas here the transition corresponds to switching between two stable structural configurations. Then, from Hamilton's equations, the analytical equilibria are determined and linearization of the equations of motion about the saddle is obtained. After computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the coefficient matrix associated with the linearization, a symplectic transformation is given which puts the Hamiltonian into normal form and simplifies the equations, allowing us to use the conceptual framework known as tube dynamics. The flow in the equilibrium region of phase space as well as the invariant manifold tubes in position space are discussed. Also, we account for the addition of damping in the tube dynamics framework, which leads to a richer set of behaviors in transition dynamics than previously explored.
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Optimal Phase Description of Chaotic Oscillators: We introduce an optimal phase description of chaotic oscillations by generalizing the concept of isochrones. On chaotic attractors possessing a general phase description, we define the optimal isophases as Poincar\'e surfaces showing return times as constant as possible. The dynamics of the resultant optimal phase is maximally decoupled of the amplitude dynamics, and provides a proper description of phase resetting of chaotic oscillations. The method is illustrated with the R\"ossler and Lorenz systems.
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A stochastic model of cascades in 2D turbulence: The dual cascade of energy and enstrophy in 2D turbulence cannot easily be understood in terms of an analog to the Richardson-Kolmogorov scenario describing the energy cascade in 3D turbulence. The coherent up- and downscale fluxes points to non-locality of interactions in spectral space, and thus the specific spatial structure of the flow could be important. Shell models, which lack spacial structure and have only local interactions in spectral space, indeed fail in reproducing the correct scaling for the inverse cascade of energy. In order to exclude the possibility that non-locality of interactions in spectral space is crucial for the dual cascade, we introduce a stochastic spectral model of the cascades which is local in spectral space and which shows the correct scaling for both the direct enstrophy - and the inverse energy cascade.
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SICNNs with Li-Yorke Chaotic Outputs on a Time Scale: In the present study, we investigate the existence of Li-Yorke chaos in the dynamics of shunting inhibitory cellular neural networks (SICNNs) on time scales. It is rigorously proved by taking advantage of external inputs that the outputs of SICNNs exhibit Li-Yorke chaos. The theoretical results are supported by simulations, and the controllability of chaos on the time scale is demonstrated by means of the Pyragas control technique. This is the first time in the literature that the existence as well as the control of chaos are provided for neural networks on time scales.
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Wave Functions and Energy Spectra in Rational Billiards Are Determined Completely by Their Periods: The rational billiards (RB) are classically pseudointegrable, i.e. their trajectories in the phase space lie on multi-tori. Each such a multi-torus can be unfolded into elementary polygon pattern (EPP). A rational billiards Riemann surface (RBRS) corresponding to each RB is then an infinite mosaic made by a periodic distribution of EPP. Periods of RBRS are directly related to periodic orbits of RB. It is shown that any stationary solutions (SS) to the Schr\"odinger equation (SE) in RB can be extended on the whole RBRS. The extended stationary wave functions (ESS) are then periodic on RBRS with its periods. Conversely, for each system of boundary conditions (i.e. the Dirichlet or the the Neumann ones or their mixture) consistent with EPP one can find so called stationary pre-solutions (SPS) of the Schr\"odinger equation defined on RBRS and respecting its periodic structure together with their energy spectra. Using SPS one can easily construct SS of RB for most boundary conditions on it by a trivial algebra over SPS. It proves therefore that the energy spectra defined by the boundary conditions for SS corresponding to each RB are totally determined by $2g$ independent periods of RBRS being homogeneous functions of these periods. RBRS can be constructed exclusively due to the rationality of the polygon billiards considered. Therefore the approach developed in the present paper can be seen as a new way in obtaining SS to SE in RB. SPS can be constructed explicitly for a class of RB which EPP can be decomposed into a set of periodic orbit channel (POC) parallel to each other (POCDRB). For such a class of RB the respective RBRS can be built as a standard multi-sheeted Riemann surface with a periodic structure. For POCDRB a discussion of the existence of the superscar states (SSS) can be done thoroughly.
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Can One Hear the Shape of a Graph?: We show that the spectrum of the Schrodinger operator on a finite, metric graph determines uniquely the connectivity matrix and the bond lengths, provided that the lengths are non-commensurate and the connectivity is simple (no parallel bonds between vertices and no loops connecting a vertex to itself). That is, one can hear the shape of the graph! We also consider a related inversion problem: A compact graph can be converted into a scattering system by attaching to its vertices leads to infinity. We show that the scattering phase determines uniquely the compact part of the graph, under similar conditions as above.
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Aerodynamics at the Particle Level: This paper is intended to clarify some of the rather well-known aerodynamic phenomena. It is also intended to pique the interest of the layman as well as the professional. All aerodynamic forces on a surface are caused by collisions of fluid particles with the surface. While the standard approach to fluid dynamics, which is founded on the fluid approximation, is effective in providing a means of calculating various behavior and properties, it begs the question of causality. The determination of the causes of many of the most important aerodynamic effects requires a microscopic examination of the fluid and of the surface with which it interacts. The Kutta-Joukowski theorem is investigated from first physical principles. It is noted that the circulation does not arise alone as a physical phenomenon, e.g. air doesn't flow forward under a wing, but must be added to the translation flow. The circulation term is necessary to take into account the vertical deflection of the air flow by a wing. Various aerodynamic devices are discussed, e.g. rocket engine exhaust diffuser and the perfume atomizer. The section on slurries discusses pyroclastic flow as occurs in violent volcanic eruptions.
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A new chaotic attractor in a basic multi-strain epidemiological model with temporary cross-immunity: An epidemic multi-strain model with temporary cross-immunity shows chaos, even in a previously unexpected parameter region. Especially dengue fever models with strong enhanced infectivity on secondary infection have previously shown deterministic chaos motivated by experimental findings of antibody-dependent-enhancement (ADE). Including temporary cross-immunity in such models, which is common knowledge among field researchers in dengue, we find a deterministically chaotic attractor in the more realistic parameter region of reduced infectivity on secondary infection (''inverse ADE'' parameter region). This is realistic for dengue fever since on second infection people are more likely to be hospitalized, hence do not contribute to the force of infection as much as people with first infection. Our finding has wider implications beyond dengue in any multi-strain epidemiological systems with altered infectivity upon secondary infection, since we can relax the condition of rather high infectivity on secondary infection previously required for deterministic chaos. For dengue the finding of wide ranges of chaotic attractors open new ways to analysis of existing data sets.
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Multistable jittering in oscillators with pulsatile delayed feedback: Oscillatory systems with time-delayed pulsatile feedback appear in various applied and theoretical research areas, and received a growing interest in the last years. For such systems, we report a remarkable scenario of destabilization of a periodic regular spiking regime. In the bifurcation point numerous regimes with non-equal interspike intervals emerge simultaneously. We show that this bifurcation is triggered by the steepness of the oscillator's phase resetting curve and that the number of the emerging, so-called "jittering" regimes grows exponentially with the delay value. Although this appears as highly degenerate from a dynamical systems viewpoint, the "multi-jitter" bifurcation occurs robustly in a large class of systems. We observe it not only in a paradigmatic phase-reduced model, but also in a simulated Hodgkin-Huxley neuron model and in an experiment with an electronic circuit.
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Enstrophy dissipation in freely evolving two-dimensional turbulence: Freely decaying two-dimensional Navier--Stokes turbulence is studied. The conservation of vorticity by advective nonlinearities renders a class of Casimirs that decays under viscous effects. A rigorous constraint on the palinstrophy production by nonlinear transfer is derived, and an upper bound for the enstrophy dissipation is obtained. This bound depends only on the decaying Casimirs, thus allowing the enstrophy dissipation to be bounded from above in terms of initial data of the flows. An upper bound for the enstrophy dissipation wavenumber is derived and the new result is compared with the classical dissipation wavenumber.
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A higher-dimensional generalization of the Lozi map: Bifurcations and dynamics: We generalize the two dimensional Lozi map in order to systematically obtain piece-wise continuous maps in three and higher dimensions. Similar to higher-dimensional generalizations of the related Henon map, these higher-dimensional Lozi maps support hyperchaotic dynamics. We carry out a bifurcation analysis and investigate the dynamics through both numerical and analytical means. The analysis is extended to a sequence of approximations that smooth the discontinuity in the Lozi map.
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Bifurcation without parameters in a chaotic system with a memristive element: We investigate the effect of memory on a chaotic system experimentally and theoretically. For this purpose, we use Chua's oscillator as an electrical model system showing chaotic dynamics extended by a memory element in form of a double-barrier memristive device. The device consists of Au/NbO$_\text{x}$/Al$_\text{2}$O$_\text{3}$/Al/Nb layers and exhibits strong analog-type resistive changes depending on the history of the charge flow. In the extended system strong changes in the dynamics of chaotic oscillations are observable. The otherwise fluctuating amplitudes of the Chua system are disrupted by transient silent states. After developing a model for Chua's oscillator with a memristive device, the numerical treatment reveals the underling dynamics as driven by the slow-fast dynamics of the memory element. Furthermore, the stabilizing and destabilizing dynamic bifurcations are identified that are passed by the system during its chaotic behavior.
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A saddle in a corner - a model of collinear triatomic chemical reactions: A geometrical model which captures the main ingredients governing atom-diatom collinear chemical reactions is proposed. This model is neither near-integrable nor hyperbolic, yet it is amenable to analysis using a combination of the recently developed tools for studying systems with steep potentials and the study of the phase space structure near a center-saddle equilibrium. The nontrivial dependence of the reaction rates on parameters, initial conditions and energy is thus qualitatively explained. Conditions under which the phase space transition state theory assumptions are satisfied and conditions under which these fail are derived.
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Unstable dimension variability, heterodimensional cycles, and blenders in the border-collision normal form: Chaotic attractors commonly contain periodic solutions with unstable manifolds of different dimensions. This allows for a zoo of dynamical phenomena not possible for hyperbolic attractors. The purpose of this Letter is to demonstrate these phenomena in the border-collision normal form. This is a continuous, piecewise-linear family of maps that is physically relevant as it captures the dynamics created in border-collision bifurcations in diverse applications. Since the maps are piecewise-linear they are relatively amenable to an exact analysis and we are able to explicitly identify parameter values for heterodimensional cycles and blenders. For a one-parameter subfamily we identify bifurcations involved in a transition through unstable dimension variability. This is facilitated by being able to compute periodic solutions quickly and accurately, and the piecewise-linear form should provide a useful test-bed for further study.
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Acceleration statistics of heavy particles in turbulence: We present the results of direct numerical simulations of heavy particle transport in homogeneous, isotropic, fully developed turbulence, up to resolution $512^3$ ($R_\lambda\approx 185$). Following the trajectories of up to 120 million particles with Stokes numbers, $St$, in the range from 0.16 to 3.5 we are able to characterize in full detail the statistics of particle acceleration. We show that: ({\it i}) The root-mean-squared acceleration $a_{\rm rms}$ sharply falls off from the fluid tracer value already at quite small Stokes numbers; ({\it ii}) At a given $St$ the normalised acceleration $a_{\rm rms}/(\epsilon^3/\nu)^{1/4}$ increases with $R_\lambda$ consistently with the trend observed for fluid tracers; ({\it iii}) The tails of the probability density function of the normalised acceleration $a/a_{\rm rms}$ decrease with $St$. Two concurrent mechanisms lead to the above results: preferential concentration of particles, very effective at small $St$, and filtering induced by the particle response time, that takes over at larger $St$.
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On the fractal dimension of the Duffing attractor: The box counting dimension $d_C$ and the correlation dimension $d_G$ change with the number of numerically generated points forming the attractor. At a sufficiently large number of points the fractal dimension tends to a finite value. The obtained values are $d_C\approx 1.43$ and $d_G\approx 1.38$.
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Nonlinear elastic polymers in random flow: Polymer stretching in random smooth flows is investigated within the framework of the FENE dumbbell model. The advecting flow is Gaussian and short-correlated in time. The stationary probability density function of polymer extension is derived exactly. The characteristic time needed for the system to attain the stationary regime is computed as a function of the Weissenberg number and the maximum length of polymers. The transient relaxation to the stationary regime is predicted to be exceptionally slow in the proximity of the coil-stretch transition.
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Analysis of the chaos dynamics in(Xn,Xn+1)plane: in the last decade, studies of chaotic system are more often used for classical choatic system than for quantum chaotic system, there are many ways of observing the chaotic system such us analyzing the frequency with Fourier transform or analyzing initial condition distance with Liapunov Exponent, this paper explains dynamic chaotic process by observing trajectory of dynamic system in (Xn,Xn+1)
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Coherence resonance in an unijunction transistor relaxation oscillator: The phenomenon of coherence resonance (CR) is investigated in an unijunction transistor relaxation oscillator (UJT-RO) and quantified by estimating the normal variance (NV). Depending upon the measuring points two types of NV curves have been obtained. We have observed that the degradations in coherency at higher noise amplitudes in our system is probably the result of direct interference of coherent oscillations and the stochastic perturbation. Degradation of coherency may be minimal if this direct interference of noise and coherent oscillations is eliminated.
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A non subjective approach to the GP algorithm for analysing noisy time series: We present an adaptation of the standard Grassberger-Proccacia (GP) algorithm for estimating the Correlation Dimension of a time series in a non subjective manner. The validity and accuracy of this approach is tested using different types of time series, such as, those from standard chaotic systems, pure white and colored noise and chaotic systems added with noise. The effectiveness of the scheme in analysing noisy time series, particularly those involving colored noise, is investigated. An interesting result we have obtained is that, for the same percentage of noise addition, data with colored noise is more distinguishable from the corresponding surrogates, than data with white noise. As examples for real life applications, analysis of data from an astrophysical X-ray object and human brain EEG, are presented.
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Chaotic maps and flows: Exact Riemann-Siegel lookalike for spectral fluctuations: To treat the spectral statistics of quantum maps and flows that are fully chaotic classically, we use the rigorous Riemann-Siegel lookalike available for the spectral determinant of unitary time evolution operators $F$. Concentrating on dynamics without time reversal invariance we get the exact two-point correlator of the spectral density for finite dimension $N$ of the matrix representative of $F$, as phenomenologically given by random matrix theory. In the limit $N\to\infty$ the correlator of the Gaussian unitary ensemble is recovered. Previously conjectured cancellations of contributions of pseudo-orbits with periods beyond half the Heisenberg time are shown to be implied by the Riemann-Siegel lookalike.
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Chaotic fluctuation of temperature on environmental interface exchanging energy by visible and infrared radiation, convection and conduction: The concept of environmental interface is defined and analyzed from the point of view of the possible source of non-standard behaviour. The energy balance equation is written for the interface where all kinds of energy transfer occur. It is shown that under certain conditions, the discrete version of the equation for the temperature time rate turns in to the well-known logistic equation and the conditions for chaotic behaviour are studied. They are determined by the Lyapunov exponent. The realistic situation when the coefficients of the equation vary with time, is studied for the Earth-environment general system.
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On study of nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of red blood cell membrane: The linear viscoelastic behavior of the red blood cell membrane of mammal and human was studied in previous works proposing different experimental methods to determine their viscoelastic parameters. In the present work the nonlinear component of dynamic viscosity of the red blood cell membrane by nonlinear time series analysis is used. For such aim, it obtained time series of test in vitro of samples of humans and rats red blood cells using the Erythrodeformeter in oscillating regime. The signal filtrate suppresses any linear behavior as well as represented by a system of linear ordinary differential equations. The test shown as much in humans as in rats resonance frequencies associated to an attractor of unknown nature independently of excitation in the physiological range. The preliminary studies shown that attractor could be correspond to a complex form bull. These results allow to extend the present knowledge on dynamic of the cellular membrane to similar stimulus which happens in the blood circulation and it will allows to make better models of the same one.
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Ratchet transport and periodic structures in parameter space: Ratchet models are prominent candidates to describe the transport phenomenum in nature in the absence of external bias. This work analyzes the parameter space of a discrete ratchet model and gives direct connections between chaotic domains and a family of isoperiodic stable structures with the ratchet current. The isoperiodic structures appear along preferred direction in the parameter space giving a guide to follow the current, which usually increases inside the structures but is independent of the corresponding period. One of such structures has the shrimp-shaped form which is known to be an universal structure in the parameter space of dissipative systems. Currents in parameter space provide a direct measure of the momentum asymmetry of the multistable and chaotic attractors times the size of the corresponding basin of attraction. Transport structures are shown to exist in the parameter space of the Langevin equation with an external oscillating force.
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Non-integrability of flail triple pendulum: We consider a special type of triple pendulum with two pendula attached to end mass of another one. Although we consider this system in the absence of the gravity, a quick analysis of of Poincar\'e cross sections shows that it is not integrable. We give an analytic proof of this fact analysing properties the of differential Galois group of variational equation along certain particular solutions of the system.
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Hidden Chaos: When a medium composed of microscopic elements is subjected to a high intensity field, the individual behaviors of microscopic elements can become chaotic. In such cases it is important to consider the effects of this irregularity at microscopical level onto the macroscopic behavior of the medium. We show that the macroscopic field produced by a large group of chaotic scatterers can remain regular, due to the partial or complete phase coherence of the scattering elements and the incoherence of the chaotic components of their responses. Thus when only macroscopic fields are observed, one may be unaware of chaotic microscopical motion, as it appears to be hidden from the observer. The coupling among the elements may lead to partial chaos synchronization, which exposes the chaotic nature of the system making the oscillations of macroscopic fields more irregular.
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Onset of Synchronization in the Disordered Hamiltonian Mean Field Model: We study the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model of coupled Hamiltonian rotors with a heterogeneous distribution of moments of inertia and coupling strengths. We show that when the parameters of the rotors are heterogeneous, finite size fluctuations can greatly modify the coupling strength at which the incoherent state loses stability by inducing correlations between the momenta and parameters of the rotors. When the distribution of initial frequencies of the oscillators is sufficiently narrow, an analytical expression for the modification in critical coupling strength is obtained that confirms numerical simulations. We find that heterogeneity in the moments of inertia tends to stabilize the incoherent state, while heterogeneity in the coupling strengths tends to destabilize the incoherent state. Numerical simulations show that these effects disappear for a wide, bimodal frequency distribution.
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Strong and Weak Chaos in Networks of Semiconductor Lasers with Time-delayed Couplings: Nonlinear networks with time-delayed couplings may show strong and weak chaos, depending on the scaling of their Lyapunov exponent with the delay time. We study strong and weak chaos for semiconductor lasers, either with time-delayed self-feedback or for small networks. We examine the dependence on the pump current and consider the question whether strong and weak chaos can be identified from the shape of the intensity trace, the auto-correlations and the external cavity modes. The concept of the sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_0$ is generalized to the case of two time-scale separated delays in the system. We give the first experimental evidence of strong and weak chaos in a network of lasers which supports the sequence 'weak to strong to weak chaos' upon monotonically increasing the coupling strength. Finally, we discuss strong and weak chaos for networks with several distinct sub-Lyapunov exponents and comment on the dependence of the sub-Lyapunov exponent on the number of a laser's inputs in a network.
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Emergence of patterns in driven and in autonomous spatiotemporal systems: The relationship between a driven extended system and an autonomous spatiotemporal system is investigated in the context of coupled map lattice models. Specifically, a locally coupled map lattice subjected to an external drive is compared to a coupled map system with similar local couplings plus a global interaction. It is shown that, under some conditions, the emergent patterns in both systems are analogous. Based on the knowledge of the dynamical responses of the driven lattice, we present a method that allows the prediction of parameter values for the emergence of ordered spatiotemporal patterns in a class of coupled map systems having local coupling and general forms of global interactions.
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Chaotic dynamics of three-dimensional Hénon maps that originate from a homoclinic bifurcation: We study bifurcations of a three-dimensional diffeomorphism, $g_0$, that has a quadratic homoclinic tangency to a saddle-focus fixed point with multipliers $(\lambda e^{i\vphi}, \lambda e^{-i\vphi}, \gamma)$, where $0<\lambda<1<|\gamma|$ and $|\lambda^2\gamma|=1$. We show that in a three-parameter family, $g_{\eps}$, of diffeomorphisms close to $g_0$, there exist infinitely many open regions near $\eps =0$ where the corresponding normal form of the first return map to a neighborhood of a homoclinic point is a three-dimensional H\'enon-like map. This map possesses, in some parameter regions, a "wild-hyperbolic" Lorenz-type strange attractor. Thus, we show that this homoclinic bifurcation leads to a strange attractor. We also discuss the place that these three-dimensional H\'enon maps occupy in the class of quadratic volume-preserving diffeomorphisms.
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Synchronization of time delay systems using variable delay with reset for enhanced security in communication: We have introduced a mechanism for synchronizing chaotic systems by one way coupling with a variable delay that is reset at finite intervals. Here we extend this method to time delay systems and suggest a new cryptosystem based on this. We present the stability analysis as applied to time delay systems and supplement this by numerical simulations in a standard time delay system like Mackey Glass system. We extend the theory to multi- delay systems and propose a bi channel scheme for the implementation of the scheme for communication with enhanced security. We show that since the synchronizing channel carries information from transmitter only at intervals of reset time, it is not susceptible to reconstruction. The message channel being separate can be made complex by linear combination of transmitter variable at different delay times using mutiple delay systems. This method has the additional advantage that it can be adjusted to be delay or anticipatory in synchronization and these provide two additional basic keys that are independent of system delay.
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Strong Evidence of Normal Heat Conduction in a one-Dimensional Quantum System: We investigate how the normal energy transport is realized in one-dimensional quantum systems using a quantum spin system. The direct investigation of local energy distribution under thermal gradient is made using the quantum master equation, and the mixing properties and the convergence of the Green-Kubo formula are investigated when the number of spin increases. We find that the autocorrelation function in the Green-Kubo formula decays as $\sim t^{-1.5}$ to a finite value which vanishes rapidly with the increase of the system size. As a result, the Green-Kubo formula converges to a finite value in the thermodynamic limit. These facts strongly support the realization of Fourier heat law in a quantum system.
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Topology of Chaotic Mixing Patterns: A stirring device consisting of a periodic motion of rods induces a mapping of the fluid domain to itself, which can be regarded as a homeomorphism of a punctured surface. Having the rods undergo a topologically-complex motion guarantees at least a minimum amount of stretching of material lines, which is important for chaotic mixing. We use topological considerations to describe the nature of the injection of unmixed material into a central mixing region, which takes place at injection cusps. A topological index formula allow us to predict the possible types of unstable foliations that can arise for a fixed number of rods.
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Mechanism of synchronization in a random dynamical system: The mechanism of synchronization in the random Zaslavsky map is investigated. From the error dynamics of two particles, the structure of phase space was analyzed, and a transcritical bifurcation between a saddle and a stable fixed point was found. We have verified the structure of on-off intermittency in terms of a biased random walk. Furthermore, for the generalized case of the ensemble of particles, \emph{a modified definition} of the size of a snapshot attractor was exploited to establish the link with a random walk. As a result, the structure of on-off intermittency in the ensemble of particles was explicitly revealed near the transition.
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An analysis of the periodically forced PP04 climate model, using the theory of non-smooth dynamical systems: In this paper we perform a careful analysis of the forced PP04 model for climate change, in particular the behaviour of the ice-ages. This system models the transition from a glacial to an inter-glacial state through a sudden release of oceanic Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. This process can be cast in terms of a Filippov dynamical system, with a discontinuous change in its dynamics related to the Carbon Dioxide release. By using techniques from the theory of non-smooth dynamical systems, we give an analysis of this model in the cases of both no insolation forcing and also periodic insolation forcing. This reveals a rich, and novel, dynamical structure to the solutions of the PP04 model. In particular we see synchronised periodic solutions with subtle regions of existence which depend on the amplitude and frequency of the forcing. The orbits can be created/destroyed in both smooth and discontinuity induced bifurcations. We study both the orbits and the transitions between them and make comparisons with actual climate dynamics.
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Control of Fractional-Order Chua's System: This paper deals with feedback control of fractional-order Chua's system. The fractional-order Chua's system with total order less than three which exhibit chaos as well as other nonlinear behavior and theory for control of chaotic systems using sampled data are presented. Numerical experimental example is shown to verify the theoretical results.
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Detection of fixed points in spatiotemporal signals by clustering method: We present a method to determine fixed points in spatiotemporal signals. A 144-dimensioanl simulated signal, similar to a Kueppers-Lortz instability, is analyzed and its fixed points are reconstructed.
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Coupled Hénon Map, Part I: Topological Horseshoes and Uniform Hyperbolicity: We derive a sufficient condition for topological horseshoe and uniform hyperbolicity of a 4-dimensional symplectic map, which is introduced by coupling the two 2-dimensional H\'enon maps via linear terms. The coupled H\'enon map thus constructed can be viewed as a simple map modeling the horseshoe in higher dimensions. We show that there are two different types of horseshoes, each of which is realized around different anti-integrable limits in the parameter regime.
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Eddy diffusivity in convective hydromagnetic systems: An eigenvalue equation, for linear instability modes involving large scales in a convective hydromagnetic system, is derived in the framework of multiscale analysis. We consider a horizontal layer with electrically conducting boundaries, kept at fixed temperatures and with free surface boundary conditions for the velocity field; periodicity in horizontal directions is assumed. The steady states must be stable to short (fast) scale perturbations and possess symmetry about the vertical axis, allowing instabilities involving large (slow) scales to develop. We expand the modes and their growth rates in power series in the scale separation parameter and obtain a hierarchy of equations, which are solved numerically. Second order solvability condition yields a closed equation for the leading terms of the asymptotic expansions and respective growth rate, whose origin is in the (combined) eddy diffusivity phenomenon. For about 10% of randomly generated steady convective hydromagnetic regimes, negative eddy diffusivity is found.
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Turbulence on hyperbolic plane: the fate of inverse cascade: We describe ideal incompressible hydrodynamics on the hyperbolic plane which is an infinite surface of constant negative curvature. We derive equations of motion, general symmetries and conservation laws, and then consider turbulence with the energy density linearly increasing with time due to action of small-scale forcing. In a flat space, such energy growth is due to an inverse cascade, which builds a constant part of the velocity autocorrelation function proportional to time and expanding in scales, while the moments of the velocity difference saturate during a time depending on the distance. For the curved space, we analyze the long-time long-distance scaling limit, that lives in a degenerate conical geometry, and find that the energy-containing mode linearly growing with time is not constant in space. The shape of the velocity correlation function indicates that the energy builds up in vortical rings of arbitrary diameter but of width comparable to the curvature radius of the hyperbolic plane. The energy current across scales does not increase linearly with the scale, as in a flat space, but reaches a maximum around the curvature radius. That means that the energy flux through scales decreases at larger scales so that the energy is transferred in a non-cascade way, that is the inverse cascade spills over to all larger scales where the energy pumped into the system is cumulated in the rings. The time-saturated part of the spectral density of velocity fluctuations contains a finite energy per unit area, unlike in the flat space where the time-saturated spectrum behaves as k^{-5/3}.
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Quantum and Wave Dynamical Chaos in Superconducting Microwave Billiards: Experiments with superconducting microwave cavities have been performed in our laboratory for more than two decades. The purpose of the present article is to recapitulate some of the highlights achieved. We briefly review (i) results obtained with flat, cylindrical microwave resonators, so-called microwave billiards, concerning the universal fluctuation properties of the eigenvalues of classically chaotic systems with no, a threefold and a broken symmetry; (ii) summarize our findings concerning the wave-dynamical chaos in three-dimensional microwave cavities; (iii) present a new approach for the understanding of the phenomenon of dynamical tunneling which was developed on the basis of experiments that were performed recently with unprecedented precision, and finally, (iv) give an insight into an ongoing project, where we investigate universal properties of (artificial) graphene with superconducting microwave photonic crystals that are enclosed in a microwave resonator, i.e., so-called Dirac billiards.
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Synchronization of a class of master-slave non-autonomous chaotic systems with parameter mismatch via sinusoidal feedback control: In this paper we investigate a master-slave synchronization scheme of two n-dimensional non-autonomous chaotic systems coupled by sinusoidal state error feedback control, where parameter mismatch exists between the external harmonic excitation of master system and that of slave one. A concept of synchronization with error bound is introduced due to parameter mismatch, and then the bounds of synchronization error are estimated analytically. Some synchronization criteria are firstly obtained in the form of matrix inequalities by the Lyapunov direct method, and then simplified into some algebraic inequalities by the Gerschgorin disc theorem. The relationship between the estimated synchronization error bound and system parameters reveals that the synchronization error can be controlled as small as possible by increasing the coupling strength or decreasing the magnitude of mismatch. A three-dimensional gyrostat system is chosen as an example to verify the effectiveness of these criteria, and the estimated synchronization error bounds are compared with the numerical error bounds. Both the theoretical and numerical results show that the present sinusoidal state error feedback control is effective for the synchronization. Numerical examples verify that the present control is robust against amplitude or phase mismatch.
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Collectivity and Periodic Orbits in a Chain of Interacting, Kicked Spins: The field of quantum chaos originated in the study of spectral statistics for interacting many-body systems, but this heritage was almost forgotten when single-particle systems moved into the focus. In recent years new interest emerged in many-body aspects of quantum chaos. We study a chain of interacting, kicked spins and carry out a semiclassical analysis that is capable of identifying all kinds of genuin many-body periodic orbits. We show that the collective many-body periodic orbits can fully dominate the spectra in certain cases.
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Extended Prigozhin theorem: method for universal characterization of complex system evolution: Evolution of arbitrary stochastic system was considered in frame of phase transition description. Concept of Reynolds parameter of hydrodynamic motion was extended to arbitrary complex system. Basic phase parameter was expressed through power of energy, injected into system and power of energy, dissipated through internal nonlinear mechanisms. It was found out that basic phase parameter as control parameter must be delimited for two types of system - accelerator and decelerator. It was suggested to select zero state entropy on through condition of zero value for entropy production. Zero state introduces universal principle of disorder characterization. On basis of self organization theorem we have derived relations for entropy production behavior in the vicinity stationary state of system. Advantage of these relations in comparison to classical Prigozhin theorem is versatility of their application to arbitrary nonlinear systems. It was found out that extended Prigozhin theorem introduces two relations for accelerator and decelerator correspondingly, which remarks their quantitative difference. At the same time classic Prigozhin theorem makes possible description of linear decelerator only. For unstable motion it corresponds to strange attractor.
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A Numerical Study of a Simple Stochastic/Deterministic Model of Cycle-to-Cycle Combustion Fluctuations in Spark Ignition Engines: We examine a simple, fuel-air, model of combustion in a spark ignition (si) engine with indirect injection. In our two fluid model, variations of fuel mass burned in cycle sequences appear due to stochastic fluctuations of a fuel feed amount. We have shown that a small amplitude of these fluctuations affects considerably the stability of a combustion process strongly depending on the quality of air-fuel mixture. The largest influence was found in the limit of a lean combustion. The possible effect of nonlinearities in the combustion process has been also discussed.
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Major open problems in chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics: Nowadays, chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics lack research focuses. Here we mention a few major open problems: 1. an effective description of chaos and turbulence, 2. rough dependence on initial data, 3. arrow of time, 4. the paradox of enrichment, 5. the paradox of pesticides, 6. the paradox of plankton.
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Semiclassical Study on Tunneling Processes via Complex-Domain Chaos: We investigate the semiclassical mechanism of tunneling process in non-integrable systems. The significant role of complex-phase-space chaos in the description of the tunneling process is elucidated by studying a simple scattering map model. Behaviors of tunneling orbits are encoded into symbolic sequences based on the structure of complex homoclinic tanglement. By means of the symbolic coding, the phase space itineraries of tunneling orbits are related with the amounts of imaginary parts of actions gained by the orbits, so that the systematic search of significant tunneling orbits becomes possible.
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Long-time saturation of the Loschmidt echo in quantum chaotic billiards: The Loschmidt echo (LE) (or fidelity) quantifies the sensitivity of the time evolution of a quantum system with respect to a perturbation of the Hamiltonian. In a typical chaotic system the LE has been previously argued to exhibit a long-time saturation at a value inversely proportional to the effective size of the Hilbert space of the system. However, until now no quantitative results have been known and, in particular, no explicit expression for the proportionality constant has been proposed. In this paper we perform a quantitative analysis of the phenomenon of the LE saturation and provide the analytical expression for its long-time saturation value for a semiclassical particle in a two-dimensional chaotic billiard. We further perform extensive (fully quantum mechanical) numerical calculations of the LE saturation value and find the numerical results to support the semiclassical theory.
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Random-Matrix Ensembles for Semi-Separable Systems: Many models for chaotic systems consist of joining two integrable systems with incompatible constants of motion. The quantum counterparts of such models have a propagator which factorizes into two integrable parts. Each part can be diagonalized. The two eigenvector bases are related by an orthogonal (or unitary) transformation. We construct a random matrix ensemble that mimics this situation and consists of a product of a diagonal, an orthogonal, another diagonal and the transposed orthogonal matrix. The diagonal phases are chosen at random and the orthogonal matrix from Haar's measure. We derive asymptotic results (dimension N -> \infty) using Wick contractions. A new approximation for the group integration yields the next order in 1/N. We obtain a finite correction to the circular orthogonal ensemble, important in the long-range part of spectral correlations.
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The Euler Equations and Non-Local Conservative Riccati Equations: We present an infinite dimensional family of of exact solutions of the incompressible three-dimensional Euler equations. These solutions, proposed by Gibbon and Ohkitani, have infinite kinetic energy and blow up in finite time.
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Synchronization of pairwise-coupled, identical, relaxation oscillators based on metal-insulator phase transition devices: A Model Study: Computing with networks of synchronous oscillators has attracted wide-spread attention as novel materials and device topologies have enabled realization of compact, scalable and low-power coupled oscillatory systems. Of particular interest are compact and low-power relaxation oscillators that have been recently demonstrated using MIT (metal- insulator-transition) devices using properties of correlated oxides. This paper presents an analysis of the dynamics and synchronization of a system of two such identical coupled relaxation oscillators implemented with MIT devices. We focus on two implementations of the oscillator: (a) a D-D configuration where complementary MIT devices (D) are connected in series to provide oscillations and (b) a D-R configuration where it is composed of a resistor (R) in series with a voltage-triggered state changing MIT device (D). The MIT device acts like a hysteresis resistor with different resistances in the two different states. The synchronization dynamics of such a system has been analyzed with purely charge based coupling using a resistive (Rc) and a capacitive (Cc) element in parallel. It is shown that in a D-D configuration symmetric, identical and capacitively coupled relaxation oscillator system synchronizes to an anti-phase locking state, whereas when coupled resistively the system locks in phase. Further, we demonstrate that for certain range of values of Rc and Cc, a bistable system is possible which can have potential applications in associative computing. In D-R configuration, we demonstrate the existence of rich dynamics including non-monotonic flows and complex phase relationship governed by the ratios of the coupling impedance. Finally, the developed theoretical formulations have been shown to explain experimentally measured waveforms of such pairwise coupled relaxation oscillators.
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Positive-entropy Hamiltonian systems on Nilmanifolds via Scattering: Let $\Sigma$ be a compact quotient of $T_4$, the Lie group of $4 \times 4$ upper triangular matrices with unity along the diagonal. The Lie algebra $t_4$ of $T_4$ has the standard basis $\{X_{ij}\}$ of matrices with $0$ everywhere but in the $(i,j)$ entry, which is unity. Let $g$ be the Carnot metric, a sub-riemannian metric, on $T_4$ for which $X_{i,i+1}$, $(i=1,2,3)$, is an orthonormal basis. Montgomery, Shapiro and Stolin showed that the geodesic flow of $g$ is algebraically non-integrable. This note proves that the geodesic flow of that Carnot metric on $T \Sigma$ has positive topological entropy and is real-analytically non-integrable. It extends earlier work by Butler and Gelfreich.
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A Study of the forced Van der Pol generalized oscillator with renormalization group method: In this paper the equation of forced Van der Pol generalized oscillator is examined with renormalization group method. A brief recall of the renormalization group technique is done. We have applied this method to the equation of forced Van der Pol generalized oscillator to search for its asymptotic solution and its renormalization group equation. The analysis of the numerical simulation graph is done; the method's efficiency is pointed out.
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One-dimensional lattice of oscillators coupled through power-law interactions: Continuum limit and dynamics of spatial Fourier modes: We study synchronization in a system of phase-only oscillators residing on the sites of a one-dimensional periodic lattice. The oscillators interact with a strength that decays as a power law of the separation along the lattice length and is normalized by a size-dependent constant. The exponent $\alpha$ of the power law is taken in the range $0 \le \alpha <1$. The oscillator frequency distribution is symmetric about its mean (taken to be zero), and is non-increasing on $[0,\infty)$. In the continuum limit, the local density of oscillators evolves in time following the continuity equation that expresses the conservation of the number of oscillators of each frequency under the dynamics. This equation admits as a stationary solution the unsynchronized state uniform both in phase and over the space of the lattice. We perform a linear stability analysis of this state to show that when it is unstable, different spatial Fourier modes of fluctuations have different stability thresholds beyond which they grow exponentially in time with rates that depend on the Fourier modes. However, numerical simulations show that at long times, all the non-zero Fourier modes decay in time, while only the zero Fourier mode (i.e., the "mean-field" mode) grows in time, thereby dominating the instability process and driving the system to a synchronized state. Our theoretical analysis is supported by extensive numerical simulations.
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On the universality of anomalous scaling exponents of structure functions in turbulent flows: All previous experiments in open turbulent flows (e.g. downstream of grids, jet and atmospheric boundary layer) have produced quantitatively consistent values for the scaling exponents of velocity structure functions. The only measurement in closed turbulent flow (von K\'arm\'an swirling flow) using Taylor-hypothesis, however, produced scaling exponents that are significantly smaller, suggesting that the universality of these exponents are broken with respect to change of large scale geometry of the flow. Here, we report measurements of longitudinal structure functions of velocity in a von K\'arm\'an setup without the use of Taylor-hypothesis. The measurements are made using Stereo Particle Image Velocimetry at 4 different ranges of spatial scales, in order to observe a combined inertial subrange spanning roughly one and a half order of magnitude. We found scaling exponents (up to 9th order) that are consistent with values from open turbulent flows, suggesting that they might be in fact universal.
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Semiclassical Accuracy in Phase Space for Regular and Chaotic Dynamics: A phase-space semiclassical approximation valid to $O(\hbar)$ at short times is used to compare semiclassical accuracy for long-time and stationary observables in chaotic, stable, and mixed systems. Given the same level of semiclassical accuracy for the short time behavior, the squared semiclassical error in the chaotic system grows linearly in time, in contrast with quadratic growth in the classically stable system. In the chaotic system, the relative squared error at the Heisenberg time scales linearly with $\hbar_{\rm eff}$, allowing for unambiguous semiclassical determination of the eigenvalues and wave functions in the high-energy limit, while in the stable case the eigenvalue error always remains of the order of a mean level spacing. For a mixed classical phase space, eigenvalues associated with the chaotic sea can be semiclassically computed with greater accuracy than the ones associated with stable islands.
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Modeling Time Series Data of Real Systems: Dynamics of complex systems is studied by first considering a chaotic time series generated by Lorenz equations and adding noise to it. The trend (smooth behavior) is separated from fluctuations at different scales using wavelet analysis and a prediction method proposed by Lorenz is applied to make out of sample predictions at different regions of the time series. The prediction capability of this method is studied by considering several improvements over this method. We then apply this approach to a real financial time series. The smooth time series is modeled using techniques of non linear dynamics. Our results for predictions suggest that the modified Lorenz method gives better predictions compared to those from the original Lorenz method. Fluctuations are analyzed using probabilistic considerations.
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Statistical theory of reversals in two-dimensional confined turbulent flows: It is shown that the Truncated Euler Equations, i.e. a finite set of ordinary differential equations for the amplitude of the large-scale modes, can correctly describe the complex transitional dynamics that occur within the turbulent regime of a confined 2D Navier-Stokes flow with bottom friction and a spatially periodic forcing. In particular, the random reversals of the large scale circulation on the turbulent background involve bifurcations of the probability distribution function of the large-scale circulation velocity that are described by the related microcanonical distribution which displays transitions from gaussian to bimodal and broken ergodicity. A minimal 13-mode model reproduces these results.
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Additive Equivalence in Turbulent Drag Reduction by Flexible and Rodlike Polymers: We address the "Additive Equivalence" discovered by Virk and coworkers: drag reduction affected by flexible and rigid rodlike polymers added to turbulent wall-bounded flows is limited from above by a very similar Maximum Drag Reduction (MDR) asymptote. Considering the equations of motion of rodlike polymers in wall-bounded turbulent ensembles, we show that although the microscopic mechanism of attaining the MDR is very different, the macroscopic theory is isomorphic, rationalizing the interesting experimental observations.
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The role of dissipation in flexural wave turbulence: from experimental spectrum to Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectrum: The Weak Turbulence Theory has been applied to waves in thin elastic plates obeying the F\"oppl-Von K\'arm\'an dynamical equations. Subsequent experiments have shown a strong discrepancy between the theoretical predictions and the measurements. Both the dynamical equations and the Weak Turbulence Theory treatment require some restrictive hypotheses. Here a direct numerical simulation of the F\"oppl-Von K\'arm\'an equations is performed and reproduces qualitatively and quantitatively the experimental results when the experimentally measured damping rate of waves $\gamma_\mathbf{k}= a + bk^2$ is used. This confirms that the F\"oppl-Von K\'arm\'an equations are a valid theoretical framework to describe our experiments. When we progressively tune the dissipation so that to localize it at the smallest scales, we observe a gradual transition between the experimental spectrum and the Kolmogorov-Zakharov prediction. Thus it is shown dissipation has a major influence on the scaling properties stationary solutions of weakly non linear wave turbulence.
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Properties of synchronization in the systems of non-identical coupled van der Pol and van der Pol - Duffing oscillators. Broadband synchronization: The particular properties of dynamics are discussed for the dissipatively coupled van der Pol oscillators, non-identical in values of parameters controlling the Hopf bifurcation. Possibility of a special synchronization regime in an infinitively long band between oscillation death and quasiperiodic areas is shown for such system. Features of the bifurcation picture are discussed for different values of the control parameters and for the case of additional Duffing-type nonlinearity. Analysis of the abridged equations is presented.
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$1/f^α$ noise and integrable systems: An innovative test for detecting quantum chaos based on the analysis of the spectral fluctuations regarded as a time series has been recently proposed. According to this test, the fluctuations of a fully chaotic system should exhibit 1/f noise, whereas for an integrable system this noise should obey the 1/f^2 power law. In this letter, we show that there is a family of well-known integrable systems, namely spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type, whose spectral fluctuations decay instead as 1/f^4. We present a simple theoretical justification of this fact, and propose an alternative characterization of quantum chaos versus integrability formulated directly in terms of the power spectrum of the spacings of the unfolded spectrum.
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Meeting time distributions in Bernoulli systems: Meeting time is defined as the time for which two orbits approach each other within distance $\epsilon$ in phase space. We show that the distribution of the meeting time is exponential in $(p_1,...,p_k)$-Bernoulli systems. In the limit of $\epsilon\to0$, the distribution converges to exp(-\alpha\tau), where $\tau$ is the meeting time normalized by the average. The exponent is shown to be $\alpha=\sum_{l=1}^{k}p_l(1-p_l)$ for the Bernoulli systems.
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The autocorrelation function for spectral determinants of quantum graphs: The paper considers the spectral determinant of quantum graph families with chaotic classical limit and no symmetries. The secular coefficients of the spectral determinant are found to follow distributions with zero mean and variance approaching a constant in the limit of large network size. This constant is in general different from the random matrix result and depends on the classical limit. A closed expression for this system dependent constant is given here explicitly in terms of the spectrum of an underlying Markov process.
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Fractal Properties of Anomalous Diffusion in Intermittent Maps: An intermittent nonlinear map generating subdiffusion is investigated. Computer simulations show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of this map has a fractal, discontinuous dependence on control parameters. An amended continuous time random walk theory well approximates the coarse behavior of this quantity in terms of a continuous function. This theory also reproduces a full suppression of the strength of diffusion, which occurs at the dynamical phase transition from one type of diffusive behavior to another. Similarly, the probability density function of this map exhibits a nontrivial fine structure while its coarse functional form is governed by a time fractional diffusion equation. A more detailed understanding of the irregular structure of the generalized diffusion coefficient is provided by an anomalous Taylor-Green-Kubo formula establishing a relation to de Rham-type fractal functions.
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Controlling double ionization of atoms in intense bichromatic laser pulses: We consider the classical dynamics of a two-electron system subjected to an intense bichromatic linearly polarized laser pulse. By varying the parameters of the field, such as the phase lag and the relative amplitude between the two colors of the field, we observe several trends from the statistical analysis of a large ensemble of trajectories initially in the ground state energy of the helium atom: High sensitivity of the sequential double ionization component, low sensitivity of the intensities where nonsequential double ionization occurs while the corresponding yields can vary drastically. All these trends hold irrespective of which parameter is varied: the phase lag or the relative amplitude. We rationalize these observations by an analysis of the phase space structures which drive the dynamics of this system and determine the extent of double ionization. These trends turn out to be mainly regulated by the dynamics of the inner electron.
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Applied Symbolic Vector Dynamics of Coupled Map Lattice: Symbolic dynamics, which partitions an infinite number of finite-length trajectories into a finite number of trajectory sets, describes the dynamics of a system in a simplified and coarse-grained way with a limited number of symbols. The study of symbolic dynamics in 1D chaotic map has been further developed and is named as the applied symbolic dynamics. In this paper, we will study the applied symbolic vector dynamics of CML. Based on the original contribution proposed in Refs.[6], we will study the ergodic property of CML. We will analyze the relation between admissibility condition and control parameters, and then give a coupling coefficient estimation method based on the ergodic property. Both theoretical and experimental results show that we provide a natural analytical technique for understanding turbulences in CML. Many of our findings could be expanded to a wider range of application.
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Perturbation approach to multifractal dimensions for certain critical random matrix ensembles: Fractal dimensions of eigenfunctions for various critical random matrix ensembles are investigated in perturbation series in the regimes of strong and weak multifractality. In both regimes we obtain expressions similar to those of the critical banded random matrix ensemble extensively discussed in the literature. For certain ensembles, the leading-order term for weak multifractality can be calculated within standard perturbation theory. For other models such a direct approach requires modifications which are briefly discussed. Our analytical formulas are in good agreement with numerical calculations.
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Exploring noise-induced chaos and complexity in a red blood cell system: We investigate dynamical changes and its corresponding phase space complexity in a stochastic red blood cell system. The system is obtained by incorporating power noise with the associated sinusoidal flow. Both chaotic and non-chaotic dynamics of sinusoidal flow in red blood cell are identified by 0-1 test. Furthermore, dynamical complexity of the sinusoidal flow in the system is investigated by heterogeneous recurrence based entropy. The numerical simulation is performed to quantify the existence of chaotic dynamics and complexity for the sinusoidal blood flow.
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Universal Fractional Map and Cascade of Bifurcations Type Attractors: We modified the way in which the Universal Map is obtained in the regular dynamics to derive the Universal $\alpha$-Family of Maps depending on a single parameter $\alpha > 0$ which is the order of the fractional derivative in the nonlinear fractional differential equation describing a system experiencing periodic kicks. We consider two particular $\alpha$-families corresponding to the Standard and Logistic Maps. For fractional $\alpha<2$ in the area of parameter values of the transition through the period doubling cascade of bifurcations from regular to chaotic motion in regular dynamics corresponding fractional systems demonstrate a new type of attractors - cascade of bifurcations type trajectories.
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Towards a semiclassical understanding of chaotic single- and many-particle quantum dynamics at post-Heisenberg time scales: Despite considerable progress during the last decades in devising a semiclassical theory for classically chaotic quantum systems a quantitative semiclassical understanding of their dynamics at late times (beyond the so-called Heisenberg time $T_H$) is still missing. This challenge, corresponding to resolving spectral structures on energy scales below the mean level spacing, is intimately related to the quest for semiclassically restoring quantum unitarity, which is reflected in real-valued spectral determinants. Guided through insights for quantum graphs we devise a periodic-orbit resummation procedure for quantum chaotic systems invoking periodic-orbit self encounters as the structuring element of a hierarchical phase space dynamics. We propose a way to purely semiclassically construct real spectral determinants based on two major underlying mechanisms: (i) Complementary contributions to the spectral determinant from regrouped pseudo orbits of duration $T < T_H$ and $T_H-T$ are complex conjugate to each other. (ii) Contributions from long periodic orbits involving multiple traversals along shorter orbits cancel out. We furthermore discuss implications for interacting $N$-particle quantum systems with a chaotic classical large-$N$ limit that have recently attracted interest in the context of many-body quantum chaos.
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Computer Assisted 'Proof' of the Global Existence of Periodic Orbits in the Rössler System: The numerical optimized shooting method for finding periodic orbits in nonlinear dynamical systems was employed to determine the existence of periodic orbits in the well-known R\"ossler system. By optimizing the period $T$ and the three system parameters, $a$, $b$ and $c$, simultaneously, it was found that, for any initial condition $(x_0,y_0,z_0) \in \Re^3$, there exists at least one set of optimized parameters corresponding to a periodic orbit passing through $ (x_0,y_0,z_0)$. After a discussion of this result it was concluded that its analytical proof may present an interesting new mathematical challenge.
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Frobenius-Perron Resonances for Maps with a Mixed Phase Space: Resonances of the time evolution (Frobenius-Perron) operator P for phase space densities have recently been shown to play a key role for the interrelations of classical, semiclassical and quantum dynamics. Efficient methods to determine resonances are thus in demand, in particular for Hamiltonian systems displaying a mix of chaotic and regular behavior. We present a powerful method based on truncating P to a finite matrix which not only allows to identify resonances but also the associated phase space structures. It is demonstrated to work well for a prototypical dynamical system.
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Nonlinear resonances and multi-stability in simple neural circuits: This article describes a numerical procedure designed to tune the parameters of periodically-driven dynamical systems to a state in which they exhibit rich dynamical behavior. This is achieved by maximizing the diversity of subharmonic solutions available to the system within a range of the parameters that define the driving. The procedure is applied to a problem of interest in computational neuroscience: a circuit composed of two interacting populations of neurons under external periodic forcing. Depending on the parameters that define the circuit, such as the weights of the connections between the populations, the response of the circuit to the driving can be strikingly rich and diverse. The procedure is employed to find circuits that, when driven by external input, exhibit multiple stable patterns of periodic activity organized in complex tuning diagrams and signatures of low dimensional chaos.
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Effect of a sub and supra-threshold periodic forcing an excitable glow discharge plasma near its bifurcation point: In this paper non-linear dynamics of a periodically forced excitable glow discharge plasma has been studied. The experiments were performed in glow discharge plasma where excitability was achieved for suitable discharge voltage and gas pressure. The plasma was first perturbed by a sub-threshold sawtooth periodic signal, and we obtained small sub-threshold oscillations. These oscillations showed resonance when the frequency of the perturbation was around the characteristic frequency the plasma, and hence may be useful to estimate characteristic of an excitable system. On the other hand, when the perturbation was supra-threshold, system showed frequency entrainments. We obtained harmonic frequency entrainments for perturbation frequency greater than the characteristic frequency of the system and for lesser than the characteristic frequency, system showed only excitable behaviour.
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Analytic Approach for Controlling Quantum States in Complex Systems: We examine random matrix systems driven by an external field in view of optimal control theory (OCT). By numerically solving OCT equations, we can show that there exists a smooth transition between two states called "moving bases" which are dynamically related to initial and final states. In our previous work [J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73 (2004) 3215-3216; Adv. Chem. Phys. 130A (2005) 435-458], they were assumed to be orthogonal, but in this paper, we introduce orthogonal moving bases. We can construct a Rabi-oscillation like representation of a wavpacket using such moving bases, and derive an analytic optimal field as a solution of the OCT equations. We also numerically show that the newly obtained optimal field outperforms the previous one.
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Chaotic mixing induced transitions in reaction-diffusion systems: We study the evolution of a localized perturbation in a chemical system with multiple homogeneous steady states, in the presence of stirring by a fluid flow. Two distinct regimes are found as the rate of stirring is varied relative to the rate of the chemical reaction. When the stirring is fast localized perturbations decay towards a spatially homogeneous state. When the stirring is slow (or fast reaction) localized perturbations propagate by advection in form of a filament with a roughly constant width and exponentially increasing length. The width of the filament depends on the stirring rate and reaction rate but is independent of the initial perturbation. We investigate this problem numerically in both closed and open flow systems and explain the results using a one-dimensional "mean-strain" model for the transverse profile of the filament that captures the interplay between the propagation of the reaction-diffusion front and the stretching due to chaotic advection.
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Growth of the Wang-Casati-Prosen counter in an integrable billiard: This work is motivated by an article by Wang, Casati, and Prosen [Phys. Rev. E vol. 89, 042918 (2014)] devoted to a study of ergodicity in two-dimensional irrational right-triangular billiards. Numerical results presented there suggest that these billiards are generally not ergodic. However, they become ergodic when the billiard angle is equal to $\pi/2$ times a Liouvillian irrational, a Liouvillian irrational, a class of irrational numbers which are well approximated by rationals. In particular, Wang et al. study a special integer counter that reflects the irrational contribution to the velocity orientation; they conjecture that this counter is localized in the generic case, but grows in the Liouvillian case. We propose a generalization of the Wang-Casati-Prosen counter: this generalization allows to include rational billiards into consideration. We show that in the case of a $45^{\circ} \!\! : \! 45^{\circ} \!\! : \! 90^{\circ}$ billiard, the counter grows indefinitely, consistent with the Liouvillian scenario suggested by Wang et al.
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The Burnett expansion of the periodic Lorentz gas: Recently, stretched exponential decay of multiple correlations in the periodic Lorentz gas has been used to show the convergence of a series of correlations which has the physical interpretation as the fourth order Burnett coefficient, a generalisation of the diffusion coefficient. Here the result is extended to include all higher order Burnett coefficients, and give a plausible argument that the expansion constructed from the Burnett coefficients has a finite radius of convergence.
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Periodic orbit analysis of a system with continuous symmetry - a tutorial: Dynamical systems with translational or rotational symmetry arise frequently in studies of spatially extended physical systems, such as Navier-Stokes flows on periodic domains. In these cases, it is natural to express the state of the fluid in terms of a Fourier series truncated to a finite number of modes. Here, we study a 4-dimensional model with chaotic dynamics and SO(2) symmetry similar to those that appear in fluid dynamics problems. A crucial step in the analysis of such a system is symmetry reduction. We use the model to illustrate different symmetry-reduction techniques. Its relative equilibria are conveniently determined by rewriting the dynamics in terms of a symmetry-invariant polynomial basis. However, for the analysis of its chaotic dynamics, the `method of slices', which is applicable to very high-dimensional problems, is preferable. We show that a Poincar\'e section taken on the `slice' can be used to further reduce this flow to what is for all practical purposes a unimodal map. This enables us to systematically determine all relative periodic orbits and their symbolic dynamics up to any desired period. We then present cycle averaging formulas adequate for systems with continuous symmetry and use them to compute dynamical averages using relative periodic orbits. The convergence of such computations is discussed.
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Local evolution equations for non-Markovian processes: A Fokker-Planck equation approach for the treatment of non-Markovian stochastic processes is proposed. The approach is based on the introduction of fictitious trajectories sharing with the real ones their local structure and initial conditions. Different statistical quantities are generated by different construction rules for the trajectories, which coincide only in the Markovian case. The merits and limitations of the approach are discussed and applications to transport in ratchets and to anomalous diffusion are illustated.
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Rectification of current in ac-driven nonlinear systems and symmetry properties of the Boltzmann equation: We study rectification of a current of particles moving in a spatially periodic potential under the influence of time-periodic forces with zero mean value. If certain time-space symmetries are broken a non-zero directed current of particles is possible. We investigate this phenomenon in the framework of the kinetic Boltzmann equation. We find that the attractor of the Boltzmann equation completely reflects the symmetries of the original one-particle equation of motion. Especially, we analyse the limits of weak and strong relaxation. The dc current increases by several orders of magnitude with decreasing dissipation.
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Chaotic time-dependent billiards: A billiard in the form of a stadium with periodically perturbed boundary is considered. Two types of such billiards are studied: stadium with strong chaotic properties and a near-rectangle billiard. Phase portraits of such billiards are investigated. In the phase plane areas corresponding to decrease and increase of the velocity of billiard particles are found. Average velocities of the particle ensemble as functions of the number of collisions are obtained.
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