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2007-10-04
Activation of additional energy dissipation processes in the magnetization dynamics of epitaxial chromium dioxide films
The precessional magnetization dynamics of a chromium dioxide$(100)$ film is examined in an all-optical pump-probe setup. The frequency dependence on the external field is used to extract the uniaxial in-plane anisotropy constant. The damping shows a strong dependence on the frequency, but also on the laser pump fluency, which is revealed as an important experiment parameter in this work: above a certain threshold further channels of energy dissipation open and the damping increases discontinuously. This behavior might stem from spin-wave instabilities.
0710.0986v2
2009-02-03
Freezing of spin dynamics in underdoped cuprates
The Mori's memory function approach to spin dynamics in doped antiferromagnetic insulator combined with the assumption of temperature independent static spin correlations and constant collective mode damping leads to w/T scaling in a broad range. The theory involving a nonuniversal scaling parameter is used to analyze recent inelastic neutron scattering results for underdoped cuprates. Adopting modified damping function also the emerging central peak in low-doped cuprates at low temperatures can be explained within the same framework.
0902.0546v1
2011-04-06
Relativistic magnetic reconnection at X-type neutral points
Relativistic effects in the oscillatory damping of magnetic disturbances near two-dimensional X-points are investigated. By taking into account displacement current, we study new features of extremely magnetized systems, in which the Alfv\'en velocity is almost the speed of light. The frequencies of the least-damped mode are calculated using linearized relativistic MHD equations for wide ranges of the Lundquist number S and the magnetization parameter $\sigma$. These timescales approach constant values in the large resistive limit: the oscillation time becomes a few times the light crossing time, irrespective of $\sigma$, and the decay time is proportional to $\sigma$ and therefore is longer for a highly magnetized system.
1104.1003v1
2011-11-08
The entropy of large black holes in loop quantum gravity: A combinatorics/analysis approach
The issue of a possible damping of the entropy periodicity for large black holes in Loop Quantum Gravity is highly debated. Using a combinatorics/analysis approach, we give strong arguments in favor of this damping, at least for prescriptions where the projection constraint is not fully implemented. This means that black holes in loop gravity exhibit an asymptotic Bekenstein-Hawking behavior, provided that a consistent choice of the Immirzi constant is made.
1111.1975v1
2013-04-04
Pais-Uhlenbeck Oscillator with a Benign Friction Force
It is shown that the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator with damping, considered by Nesterenko, is a special case of a more general oscillator that has not only a first order, but also a third order friction term. If the corresponding damping constants, \alpha\ and \beta, are both positive and below certain critical values, then the system is stable. In particular, if \alpha = - \beta, then we have the unstable Nesterenko's oscillator
1304.1325v2
2014-12-05
Exponential dephasing of oscillators in the Kinetic Kuramoto Model
We study the kinetic Kuramoto model for coupled oscillators with coupling constant below the synchronization threshold. We manage to prove that, for any analytic initial datum, if the interaction is small enough, the order parameter of the model vanishes exponentially fast, and the solution is asymptotically described by a free flow. This behavior is similar to the phenomenon of Landau damping in plasma physics. In the proof we use a combination of techniques from Landau damping and from abstract Cauchy-Kowalewskaya theorem.
1412.1923v1
2014-12-23
Selftrapping triggered by losses in cavity QED
In a coupled cavity QED network model, we study the transition from a localized super fluid like state to a delocalized Mott insulator like state, triggered by losses. Without cavity losses, the transition never takes place. Further, if one measures the quantum correlations between the polaritons via the negativity, we find a critical cavity damping constant, above which the negativity displays a single peak in the same time region where the transition takes place. Additionally, we identify two regions in the parameter space, where below the critical damping, oscillations of the initial localized state are observed along with a multipeaked negativity, while above the critical value, the oscillations die out and the transition is witnessed by a neat single peaked negativity.
1412.7495v1
2015-11-19
Periodic damping gives polynomial energy decay
Let $u$ solve the damped Klein--Gordon equation $$ \big( \partial_t^2-\sum \partial_{x_j}^2 +m \text{Id} +\gamma(x) \partial_t \big) u=0 $$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $m>0$ and $\gamma\geq 0$ bounded below on a $2 \pi \mathbb{Z}^n$-invariant open set by a positive constant. We show that the energy of the solution $u$ decays at a polynomial rate. This is proved via a periodic observability estimate on $\mathbb{R}^n.$
1511.06144v5
2016-07-06
Asymptotic profiles of solutions for structural damped wave equations
In this paper, we obtain several asymptotic profiles of solutions to the Cauchy problem for structurally damped wave equations $\partial_{t}^{2} u - \Delta u + \nu (-\Delta)^{\sigma} \partial_{t} u=0$, where $\nu >0$ and $0< \sigma \le1$. Our result is the approximation formula of the solution by a constant multiple of a special function as $t \to \infty$, which states that the asymptotic profiles of the solutions are classified into $5$ patterns depending on the values $\nu$ and $\sigma$.
1607.01839v1
2018-01-19
Robust integral action of port-Hamiltonian systems
Interconnection and damping assignment, passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) has proven to be a successful control technique for the stabilisation of many nonlinear systems. In this paper, we propose a method to robustify a system which has been stabilised using IDA-PBC with respect to constant, matched disturbances via the addition of integral action. The proposed controller extends previous work on the topic by being robust against the damping of the system, a quantity which may not be known in many applications.
1801.06279v1
2018-04-10
Motion of a superconducting loop in an inhomogeneous magnetic field: a didactic experiment
We present an experiment conductive to an understanding of both Faraday's law and the properties of the superconducting state. It consists in the analysis of the motion of a superconducting loop moving under the influence of gravity in an inhomogeneous horizontal magnetic field. Gravity, conservation of magnetic flux, and friction combine to give damped harmonic oscillations. The measured frequency of oscillation and the damping constant as a function of the magnetic field strength (the only free parameter) are in good agreement with the theoretical model.
1804.03553v1
2010-04-26
Entanglement of a two-particle Gaussian state interacting with a heat bath
The effect of a thermal reservoir is investigated on a bipartite Gaussian state. We derive a pre-Lindblad master equation in the non-rotating wave approximation for the system. We then solve the master equation for a bipartite harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian with entangled initial state. We show that for strong damping the loss of entanglement is the same as for freely evolving particles. However, if the damping is small, the entanglement is shown to oscillate and eventually tend to a constant nonzero value.
1004.4515v2
2019-09-11
Remark on global existence of solutions to the 1D compressible Euler equation with time-dependent damping
In this paper, we consider the 1D compressible Euler equation with the damping coefficient $\lambda/(1+t)^{\mu}$. Under the assumption that $0\leq \mu <1$ and $\lambda >0$ or $\mu=1$ and $\lambda > 2$, we prove that solutions exist globally in time, if initial data are small $C^1$ perturbation near constant states. In particular, we remove the conditions on the limit $\lim_{|x| \rightarrow \infty} (u (0,x), v (0,x))$, assumed in previous results.
1909.05683v1
2021-04-12
The pressureless damped Euler-Riesz equations
In this paper, we analyze the pressureless damped Euler-Riesz equations posed in either $\mathbb{R}^d$ or $\mathbb{T}^d$. We construct the global-in-time existence and uniqueness of classical solutions for the system around a constant background state. We also establish large-time behaviors of classical solutions showing the solutions towards the equilibrium as time goes to infinity. For the whole space case, we first show the algebraic decay rate of solutions under additional assumptions on the initial data compared to the existence theory. We then refine the argument to have the exponential decay rate of convergence even in the whole space. In the case of the periodic domain, without any further regularity assumptions on the initial data, we provide the exponential convergence of solutions.
2104.05153v1
2021-05-20
On the the critical exponent for the semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux-Tricomi equation with power nonlinearity
In this note, we derive a blow-up result for a semilinear generalized Tricomi equation with damping and mass terms having time-dependent coefficients. We consider these coefficients with critical decay rates. Due to this threshold nature of the time-dependent coefficients (both for the damping and for the mass), the multiplicative constants appearing in these lower-order terms strongly influence the value of the critical exponent, determining a competition between a Fujita-type exponent and a Strauss-type exponent.
2105.09879v2
2016-06-08
Energy Decay in a Wave Guide with Dissipation at Infinity
We prove local and global energy decay for the wave equation in a wave guide with damping at infinity. More precisely, the absorption index is assumed to converge slowly to a positive constant, and we obtain the diffusive phenomenon typical for the contribution of low frequencies when the damping is effective at infinity. On the other hand, the usual Geometric Control Condition is not necessarily satisfied so we may have a loss of regularity for the contribution of high frequencies. Since our results are new even in the Euclidean space, we also state a similar result in this case.
1606.02549v2
2020-10-18
Classical limit of quantum mechanics for damped driven oscillatory systems: Quantum-classical correspondence
The investigation of quantum-classical correspondence may lead to gain a deeper understanding of the classical limit of quantum theory. We develop a quantum formalism on the basis of a linear-invariant theorem, which gives an exact quantum-classical correspondence for damped oscillatory systems that are perturbed by an arbitrary force. Within our formalism, the quantum trajectory and expectation values of quantum observables are precisely coincide with their classical counterparts in the case where we remove the global quantum constant h from their quantum results. In particular, we illustrate the correspondence of the quantum energy with the classical one in detail.
2010.08971v1
2020-12-28
An efficient method for approximating resonance curves of weakly-damped nonlinear mechanical systems
A method is presented for tracing the locus of a specific peak in the frequency response under variation of a parameter. It is applicable to periodic, steady-state vibrations of harmonically forced nonlinear mechanical systems. It operates in the frequency domain and its central idea is to assume a constant phase lag between forcing and response. The method is validated for a two-degree-of-freedom oscillator with cubic spring and a bladed disk with shroud contact. The method provides superior computational efficiency, but is limited to weakly-damped systems. Finally, the capability to reveal isolated solution branches is highlighted.
2012.14458v1
2021-02-04
Global existence results for semi-linear structurally damped wave equations with nonlinear convection
In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for semi-linear wave equations with structural damping term $\nu (-\Delta)^2 u_t$, where $\nu >0$ is a constant. As being mentioned in [8,10], the linear principal part brings both the diffusion phenomenon and the regularity loss of solutions. This implies that, for the nonlinear problems, the choice of solution spaces plays an important role to obtain global solutions with sharp decay properties in time. Our main purpose of this paper is to prove the global (in time) existence of solutions for the small data and their decay properties for the supercritical nonlinearities.
2102.02445v2
2022-04-04
Exponential ergodicity for damping Hamiltonian dynamics with state-dependent and non-local collisions
In this paper, we investigate the exponential ergodicity in a Wasserstein-type distance for a damping Hamiltonian dynamics with state-dependent and non-local collisions, which indeed is a special case of piecewise deterministic Markov processes while is very popular in numerous modelling situations including stochastic algorithms. The approach adopted in this work is based on a combination of the refined basic coupling and the refined reflection coupling for non-local operators. In a certain sense, the main result developed in the present paper is a continuation of the counterpart in \cite{BW2022} on exponential ergodicity of stochastic Hamiltonian systems with L\'evy noises and a complement of \cite{BA} upon exponential ergodicity for Andersen dynamics with constant jump rate functions.
2204.01372v1
2022-06-17
On energy-stable and high order finite element methods for the wave equation in heterogeneous media with perfectly matched layers
This paper presents a stable finite element approximation for the acoustic wave equation on second-order form, with perfectly matched layers (PML) at the boundaries. Energy estimates are derived for varying PML damping for both the discrete and the continuous case. Moreover, a priori error estimates are derived for constant PML damping. Most of the analysis is performed in Laplace space. Numerical experiments in physical space validate the theoretical results.
2206.08507v1
2022-12-27
Stabilization of the Kawahara-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation with time-delayed feedback
Results of stabilization for the higher order of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation are presented in this manuscript. Precisely, we prove with two different approaches that under the presence of a damping mechanism and an internal delay term (anti-damping) the solutions of the Kawahara-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation are locally and globally exponentially stable. The main novelty is that we present the optimal constant, as well as the minimal time, that ensures that the energy associated with this system goes to zero exponentially.
2212.13552v1
2014-10-20
Frequency-dependent attenuation and elasticity in unconsolidated earth materials: effect of damping
We use the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to understand the underlying attenuation mechanism in granular media, with special applicability to the measurements of the so-called effective mass developed earlier. We consider that the particles interact via Hertz-Mindlin elastic contact forces and that the damping is describable as a force proportional to the velocity difference of contacting grains. We determine the behavior of the complex-valued normal mode frequencies using 1) DEM, 2) direct diagonalization of the relevant matrix, and 3) a numerical search for the zeros of the relevant determinant. All three methods are in strong agreement with each other. The real and the imaginary parts of each normal mode frequency characterize the elastic and the dissipative properties, respectively, of the granular medium. We demonstrate that, as the interparticle damping, $\xi$, increases, the normal modes exhibit nearly circular trajectories in the complex frequency plane and that for a given value of $\xi$ they all lie on or near a circle of radius $R$ centered on the point $-iR$ in the complex plane, where $R\propto 1/\xi$. We show that each normal mode becomes critically damped at a value of the damping parameter $\xi \approx 1/\omega_n^0$, where $\omega_n^0$ is the (real-valued) frequency when there is no damping. The strong indication is that these conclusions carry over to the properties of real granular media whose dissipation is dominated by the relative motion of contacting grains. For example, compressional or shear waves in unconsolidated dry sediments can be expected to become overdamped beyond a critical frequency, depending upon the strength of the intergranular damping constant.
1410.5484v2
2004-04-15
Is the slope of the intrinsic Baldwin effect constant?
We investigate the relationship between emission-line strength and continuum luminosity in the best-studied nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC5548. Our analysis of 13 years of ground-based optical monitoring data reveals significant year-to-year variations in the observed H-beta emission-line response in this source. More specifically, we confirm the result of Gilbert and Peterson (2003) of a non-linear relationship between the continuum and H-beta emission-line fluxes. Furthermore, we show that the slope of this relation is not constant, but rather decreases as the continuum flux increases. Both effects are consistent with photoionisation model predictions of a luminosity-dependent response in this line.
0404296v1
1993-04-01
Wavelet transforms versus Fourier transforms
This note is a very basic introduction to wavelets. It starts with an orthogonal basis of piecewise constant functions, constructed by dilation and translation. The ``wavelet transform'' maps each $f(x)$ to its coefficients with respect to this basis. The mathematics is simple and the transform is fast (faster than the Fast Fourier Transform, which we briefly explain), but approximation by piecewise constants is poor. To improve this first wavelet, we are led to dilation equations and their unusual solutions. Higher-order wavelets are constructed, and it is surprisingly quick to compute with them --- always indirectly and recursively. We comment informally on the contest between these transforms in signal processing, especially for video and image compression (including high-definition television). So far the Fourier Transform --- or its 8 by 8 windowed version, the Discrete Cosine Transform --- is often chosen. But wavelets are already competitive, and they are ahead for fingerprints. We present a sample of this developing theory.
9304214v1
2011-02-14
Computing the Ball Size of Frequency Permutations under Chebyshev Distance
Let $S_n^\lambda$ be the set of all permutations over the multiset $\{\overbrace{1,...,1}^{\lambda},...,\overbrace{m,...,m}^\lambda\}$ where $n=m\lambda$. A frequency permutation array (FPA) of minimum distance $d$ is a subset of $S_n^\lambda$ in which every two elements have distance at least $d$. FPAs have many applications related to error correcting codes. In coding theory, the Gilbert-Varshamov bound and the sphere-packing bound are derived from the size of balls of certain radii. We propose two efficient algorithms that compute the ball size of frequency permutations under Chebyshev distance. Both methods extend previous known results. The first one runs in $O({2d\lambda \choose d\lambda}^{2.376}\log n)$ time and $O({2d\lambda \choose d\lambda}^{2})$ space. The second one runs in $O({2d\lambda \choose d\lambda}{d\lambda+\lambda\choose \lambda}\frac{n}{\lambda})$ time and $O({2d\lambda \choose d\lambda})$ space. For small constants $\lambda$ and $d$, both are efficient in time and use constant storage space.
1102.2799v2
2011-07-02
Energy dissipation and switching delay in spin-transfer torque switching of nanomagnets with low-saturation magnetization in the presence of thermal fluctuations
A common ploy to reduce the switching current and energy dissipation in spin-transfer-torque driven magnetization switching of shape-anisotropic single-domain nanomagnets is to employ magnets with low saturation magnetization $M_s$ and high shape-anisotropy. The high shape-anisotropy compensates for low $M_s$ to keep the static switching error rate constant. However, this ploy increases the switching delay, its variance in the presence of thermal noise, and the dynamic switching error rate. Using the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with a random torque emulating thermal noise, we show that pumping some excess spin-polarized current into the nanomagnet during switching will keep the mean switching delay and its variance constant as we reduce $M_s$, while still reducing the energy dissipation significantly.
1107.0387v2
2015-08-11
Analysis of a coupled spin drift-diffusion Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system
The existence of global weak solutions to a coupled spin drift-diffusion and Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system is proved. The equations are considered in a two-dimensional magnetic layer structure and are supplemented with Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. The spin drift-diffusion model for the charge density and spin density vector is the diffusion limit of a spinorial Boltzmann equation for a vanishing spin polarization constant. The Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system consists of the time-dependent Maxwell equations for the electric and magnetic fields and of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for the local magnetization, involving the interaction between magnetization and spin density vector. The existence proof is based on a regularization procedure, $L^2$-type estimates, and Moser-type iterations which yield the boundedness of the charge and spin densities. Furthermore, the free energy is shown to be nonincreasing in time if the magnetization-spin interaction constant in the Landau-Lifshitz equation is sufficiently small.
1508.02660v1
2015-08-16
The Computational Power of Beeps
In this paper, we study the quantity of computational resources (state machine states and/or probabilistic transition precision) needed to solve specific problems in a single hop network where nodes communicate using only beeps. We begin by focusing on randomized leader election. We prove a lower bound on the states required to solve this problem with a given error bound, probability precision, and (when relevant) network size lower bound. We then show the bound tight with a matching upper bound. Noting that our optimal upper bound is slow, we describe two faster algorithms that trade some state optimality to gain efficiency. We then turn our attention to more general classes of problems by proving that once you have enough states to solve leader election with a given error bound, you have (within constant factors) enough states to simulate correctly, with this same error bound, a logspace TM with a constant number of unary input tapes: allowing you to solve a large and expressive set of problems. These results identify a key simplicity threshold beyond which useful distributed computation is possible in the beeping model.
1508.03859v1
2016-05-04
Asymptotic behaviors of Landau-Lifshitz flows from $\Bbb R^2$ to Kähler manifolds
In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviors of finite energy solutions to the Landau-Lifshitz flows from $\Bbb R^2$ into K\"ahler manifolds. First, we prove that the solution with initial data below the critical energy converges to a constant map in the energy space as $t\to \infty$ for the compact Riemannian surface targets. In particular, when the target is a two dimensional sphere, we prove that the solution to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with initial data having an energy below $4\pi$ converges to some constant map in the energy space. Second, for general compact K\"ahler manifolds and initial data of an arbitrary finite energy, we obtain a bubbling theorem analogous to the Struwe's results on the heat flows.
1605.01245v2
2018-07-30
Graphs admitting only constant splines
We study {\em generalized graph splines,} introduced by Gilbert, Viel, and the last author. For a large class of rings, we characterize the graphs that only admit constant splines. To do this, we prove that if a graph has a particular type of cutset (e.g., a bridge), then the space of splines naturally decomposes as a certain direct sum of submodules. As an application, we use these results to describe splines on a triangulation studied by Zhou and Lai, but over a different ring than they used.
1807.11515v2
2017-06-11
Local List Recovery of High-rate Tensor Codes and Applications
In this work, we give the first construction of high-rate locally list-recoverable codes. List-recovery has been an extremely useful building block in coding theory, and our motivation is to use these codes as such a building block. In particular, our construction gives the first capacity-achieving locally list-decodable codes (over constant-sized alphabet); the first capacity achieving globally list-decodable codes with nearly linear time list decoding algorithm (once more, over constant-sized alphabet); and a randomized construction of binary codes on the Gilbert-Varshamov bound that can be uniquely decoded in near-linear-time, with higher rate than was previously known. Our techniques are actually quite simple, and are inspired by an approach of Gopalan, Guruswami, and Raghavendra (Siam Journal on Computing, 2011) for list-decoding tensor codes. We show that tensor powers of (globally) list-recoverable codes are "approximately" locally list-recoverable, and that the "approximately" modifier may be removed by pre-encoding the message with a suitable locally decodable code. Instantiating this with known constructions of high-rate globally list-recoverable codes and high-rate locally decodable codes finishes the construction.
1706.03383v1
2021-04-06
Diffusion of a magnetic skyrmion in 2-dimensional space
Two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions are particle-like magnetic domains in magnetic thin films. The kinetic property of the magnetic skyrmions at finite temperature is well described by the Thiele equation, including a stochastic field and a finite mass. In this paper, the validity of the constant-mass approximation is examined by comparing the Fourier spectrum of Brownian motions described by the Thiele equation and the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. Then, the 4-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation is derived from the Thiele equation with a mass-term. Consequently, an expression of the diffusion flow and diffusion constant in a tensor form is derived, extending Chandrasekhar's method for Thiele dynamics.
2104.02345v2
2019-02-13
Dynamics of ferromagnetic domain walls under extreme fields
We report the existence of a new regime for domain wall motion in uniaxial and near-uniaxial ferromagnetic nanowires, characterised by applied magnetic fields sufficiently strong that one of the domains becomes unstable. There appears a new stable solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, describing a nonplanar domain wall moving with constant velocity and precessing with constant frequency. Even in the presence of thermal noise, the new solution can propagate for distances on the order of 500 times the field-free domain wall width before fluctuations in the unstable domain become appreciable.
1902.04968v3
2018-10-29
A Graceful Exit for the Cosmological Constant Damping Scenario
We present a broad and simple class of scalar-tensor scenarios that successfully realize dynamical damping of the effective cosmological constant, therefore providing a viable dynamical solution to the fine-tuning or "old" cosmological constant problem. In contrast to early versions of this approach, pioneered in the works of A. Dolgov in the 1980es, these do not suffer from unacceptable variations of Newton's constant, as one aims at a small but strictly positive (rather than zero) late-time curvature. In our approach, the original fine-tuning issue is traded for a hierarchy of couplings, and we further suggest a way to naturally generate this hierarchy based on fermion condensation and softly broken field shift symmetry.
1810.12336v2
2018-09-13
Active Damping of a DC Network with a Constant Power Load: An Adaptive Passivity-based Control Approach
This paper proposes a nonlinear, adaptive controller to increase the stability margin of a direct-current (DC) small-scale electrical network containing a constant power load, whose value is unknown. Due to their negative incremental impedance, constant power loads are known to reduce the effective damping of a network, leading to voltage oscillations and even to network collapse. To tackle this problem, we consider the incorporation of a controlled DC-DC power converter between the feeder and the constant power load. The design of the control law for the converter is based on the use of standard Passivity-Based Control and Immersion and Invariance theories. The good performance of the controller is evaluated with numerical simulations.
1809.04920v1
2020-10-01
Avoiding coherent errors with rotated concatenated stabilizer codes
Coherent errors, which arise from collective couplings, are a dominant form of noise in many realistic quantum systems, and are more damaging than oft considered stochastic errors. Here, we propose integrating stabilizer codes with constant-excitation codes by code concatenation. Namely, by concatenating an $[[n,k,d]]$ stabilizer outer code with dual-rail inner codes, we obtain a $[[2n,k,d]]$ constant-excitation code immune from coherent phase errors and also equivalent to a Pauli-rotated stabilizer code. When the stabilizer outer code is fault-tolerant, the constant-excitation code has a positive fault-tolerant threshold against stochastic errors. Setting the outer code as a four-qubit amplitude damping code yields an eight-qubit constant-excitation code that corrects a single amplitude damping error, and we analyze this code's potential as a quantum memory.
2010.00538v2
1995-05-17
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF QUASARS BY THEIR DAMPED LYMAN-ALPHA ABSORBERS
Damped Lyman-alpha absorbers are believed to be associated with galactic disks. We show that gravitational lensing can therefore affect the statistics of these systems. First, the magnification bias due to lensing raises faint QSOs above a given magnitude threshold and thereby enhances the probability for observing damped absorption systems. Second, the bending of light rays from the source effectively limits the minimum impact parameter of the line-of-sight relative to the center of the absorber, thus providing an upper cut-off to the observed neutral hydrogen (HI) column density. The combination of these effects yields a pronounced peak in the observed abundance of absorbers with high column densities (>2*10^{21} cm^{-2}) and low redshifts (z<1). The inferred value of the cosmological density parameter of neutral hydrogen, Omega_{HI}, increases with increasing redshift and luminosity of the sources even if the true HI density remains constant. This trend resembles the observed evolution of Omega_{HI}(z). Damped Lyman-alpha absorbers with column densities >10^{21} cm^{-2} and redshifts 0.5<z<1 are reliable flags for lensed QSOs with a close pair of images separated by 0.3 arcsec. Detection of these gravitational lensing signatures with the Hubble Space Telescope can be used to constrain the depth of the absorber potential-wells and the cosmological constant.
9505078v1
2000-06-01
Crust-core coupling and r-mode damping in neutron stars: a toy model
R-modes in neutron stars with crusts are damped by viscous friction at the crust-core boundary. The magnitude of this damping, evaluated by Bildsten and Ushomirsky (BU) under the assumption of a perfectly rigid crust, sets the maximum spin frequency for a neutron star spun up by accretion in a Low-Mass X-ray binary (LMXB). In this paper we explore the mechanical coupling between the core r-modes and the elastic crust, using a toy model of a constant density neutron star with a constant shear modulus crust. We find that, at spin frequencies in excess of ~50 Hz, the r-modes strongly penetrate the crust. This reduces the relative motion (slippage) between the crust and the core compared to the rigid crust limit. We therefore revise down, by as much as a factor of 10^2-10^3, the damping rate computed by BU, significantly reducing the maximal possible spin frequency of neutron star with a solid crust. The dependence of the crust-core slippage on the spin frequency is complicated, and is very sensitive to the physical thickness of the crust. If the crust is sufficiently thick, the curve of the critical spin frequency for the onset of the r-mode instability becomes multi-valued for some temperatures; this is related to the avoided crossings between the r-mode and the higher-order torsional modes in the crust. The critical frequencies are comparable to the observed spins of neutron stars in LMXBs and millisecond pulsars.
0006028v1
2006-06-15
Purity and decoherence in the theory of a damped harmonic oscillator
For the generalized master equations derived by Karrlein and Grabert for the microscopic model of a damped harmonic oscillator, the conditions for purity of states are written, in particular for different initial conditions and different types of damping, including Ohmic, Drude and weak coupling cases, Agarwal and Weidlich-Haake models. It is shown that the states which remain pure are the squeezed states with constant in time variances. For pure states, the generalized nonlinear Schr\" odinger-type equations corresponding to these master equations are also obtained. Then the condition for purity of states of a damped harmonic oscillator is considered in the framework of Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. For a special choice of the environment coefficients, the correlated coherent states with constant variances and covariance are shown to be the only states which remain pure all the time during the evolution of the considered system. In Karrlein-Grabert and Lindblad models, as well as in the considered particular models, the expressions of the rate of entropy production is written and it is shown that the states which preserve their purity in time are also the states which minimize the entropy production and, therefore, they are the most stable ones under evolution in the presence of the environment and play an important role in the description of decoherence phenomenon.
0606134v1
2016-11-28
First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO
Interferometric gravitational wave detectors operate with high optical power in their arms in order to achieve high shot-noise limited strain sensitivity. A significant limitation to increasing the optical power is the phenomenon of three-mode parametric instabilities, in which the laser field in the arm cavities is scattered into higher order optical modes by acoustic modes of the cavity mirrors. The optical modes can further drive the acoustic modes via radiation pressure, potentially producing an exponential buildup. One proposed technique to stabilize parametric instability is active damping of acoustic modes. We report here the first demonstration of damping a parametrically unstable mode using active feedback forces on the cavity mirror. A 15,538 Hz mode that grew exponentially with a time constant of 182 sec was damped using electro-static actuation, with a resulting decay time constant of 23 sec. An average control force of 0.03 nNrms was required to maintain the acoustic mode at its minimum amplitude.
1611.08997v1
2012-10-02
Coherence and Stimulated Emission in the Tavis-Cummings Model: A Quantum Description of the Free Induction Signal and Radiation Damping in Magnetic Resonance
We numerically solve the Liouville equation for the Tavis Cummings model of multiple spins coupled to a lossless single mode cavity, starting from an initial condition with small numbers of fully polarized spins tipped by a specified angle, and the cavity in its ground Fock state. Time evolution of the magnetizations and cavity states, following small to medium nutation by a classical field, yields a microscopic quantum mechanical picture of radiation damping in magnetic resonance, and the formation of the free induction signal, that is, the transfer of Zeeman energy, via spin coherence, to cavity coherence. Although the motion of the Bloch vector is nonclassical, our quantum description is related to the macroscopic picture of NMR reception, by showing the close relationship between the usual radiation damping constant, and the quantum mechanical Rabi nutation frequency (as enhanced by cavity coupling and stimulated emission.) That is, each is the product, of a nutation rate per oscillator current, and a current. Although the current in the damping constant is explicitly limited by cavity losses, which do not enter the formula for the Rabi frequency, we nonetheless show (in an appendix) how these losses can be introduced into our problem by means of a master equation. Numerical solution of the classical Bloch-Kirchhoff equations reinforces the conclusion that the strength of the free induction
1210.0868v2
2021-07-28
Evolution of a Mode of Oscillation Within Turbulent Accretion Disks
We investigate the effects of subsonic turbulence on a normal mode of oscillation [a possible origin of the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) within some black hole accretion disks]. We consider perturbations of a time-dependent background (steady state disk plus turbulence), obtaining an oscillator equation with stochastic damping, (mildly) nonlinear restoring, and stochastic driving forces. The (long-term) mean values of our turbulent functions vanish. In particular, turbulence does not damp the oscillation modes, so `turbulent viscosity' is not operative. However, the frequency components of the turbulent driving force near that of the mode can produce significant changes in the amplitude of the mode. Even with an additional (phenomenological constant) source of damping, this leads to an eventual `blowout' (onset of effects of nonlinearity) if the turbulence is sufficiently strong or the damping constant is sufficiently small. The infrequent large increases in the energy of the mode could be related to the observed low duty cycles of the HFQPOs. The width of the peak in the power spectral density (PSD) is proportional to the amount of nonlinearity. A comparison with observed continuum PSDs indicates the conditions required for visibility of the mode.
2107.13546v1
2001-02-06
Decay of cosmological constant as Bose condensate evaporation
We consider the process of decay of symmetric vacuum state as evaporation of a Bose condensate of physical Higgs particles, defined over asymmetric vacuum state. Energy density of their selfinteraction is identified with cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in the Einstein equation. $\Lambda$ decay then provides dynamical realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking. The effective mechanism is found for damping of coherent oscillations of a scalar field, leading to slow evaporation regime as the effective mechanism for $\Lambda$ decay responsible for inflation without special fine-tuning of the microphysical parameters. This mechanism is able to incorporate reheating, generation of proper primordial fluctuations, and nonzero cosmological constant today.
0102094v2
2003-07-12
Time-variability of the fine-structure constant expected from the Oklo constraint and the QSO absorption lines
The data from the QSO absorption lines indicating a nonzero time-variability of the fine-structure constant has been re-analyzed on the basis of a "damped-oscillator" fit, as motivated by the same type of behavior of a scalar field, dilaton, which mimics a cosmological constant to understand the accelerating universe. We find nearly as good fit to the latest data as the simple weighted mean. In this way, we offer a way to fit the more stringent result from the Oklo phenomenon, as well.
0307263v2
1996-01-30
Role of a "Local" Cosmological Constant in Euclidean Quantum Gravity
In 4D non-perturbative Regge calculus a positive value of the effective cosmological constant characterizes the collapsed phase of the system. If a local term of the form $S'=\sum_{h \epsilon \{h_1,h_2,...\} } \lambda_h V_h$ is added to the gravitational action, where $\{h_1,h_2,...\}$ is a subset of the hinges and $\{\lambda_h\}$ are positive constants, one expects that the volumes $V_{h_1}$, $V_{h_2}$, ... tend to collapse and that the excitations of the lattice propagating through the hinges $\{h_1,h_2,...\}$ are damped. We study the continuum analogue of this effect. The additional term $S'$ may represent the coupling of the gravitational field to an external Bose condensate.
9601160v1
1999-07-12
General considerations of the cosmological constant and the stabilization of moduli in the brane-world picture
We argue that the brane-world picture with matter-fields confined to 4-d domain walls and with gravitational interactions across the bulk disallows adding an arbitrary constant to the low-energy, 4-d effective theory -- which finesses the usual cosmological constant problem. The analysis also points to difficulties in stabilizing moduli fields; as an alternative, we suggest scenarios in which the moduli motion is heavily damped by various cosmological mechanisms and varying ultra-slowly with time.
9907080v1
2007-06-03
A class of series acceleration formulae for Catalan's constant
In this note, we develop transformation formulae and expansions for the log tangent integral, which are then used to derive series acceleration formulae for certain values of Dirichlet L-functions, such as Catalan's constant. The formulae are characterized by the presence of an infinite series whose general term consists of a linear recurrence damped by the central binomial coefficient and a certain quadratic polynomial. Typically, the series can be expressed in closed form as a rational linear combination of Catalan's constant and pi times the logarithm of an algebraic unit.
0706.0356v1
2022-09-21
Performance enhancement of a spin-wave-based reservoir computing system utilizing different physical conditions
The authors have numerically studied how to enhance reservoir computing performance by thoroughly extracting their spin-wave device potential for higher-dimensional information generation. The reservoir device has a 1-input exciter and 120-output detectors on the top of a continuous magnetic garnet film for spin-wave transmission. For various nonlinear and fading-memory dynamic phenomena distributing in the film space, small in-plane magnetic fields were used to prepare stripe domain structures and various damping constants at the film sides and bottom were explored. The ferromagnetic resonant frequency and relaxation time of spin precession clearly characterized the change in spin dynamics with the magnetic field and damping constant. The common input signal for reservoir computing was a 1 GHz cosine wave with random 6-valued amplitude modulation. A basic 120-dimensional reservoir output vector was obtained from time-series signals at the 120 output detectors under each of the three magnetic field conditions. Then, 240- and 360-dimensional reservoir output vectors were also constructed by concatenating two and three basic ones, respectively. In nonlinear autoregressive moving average (NARMA) prediction tasks, the computational performance was enhanced as the dimension of the reservoir output vector becomes higher and a significantly low prediction error was achieved for the 10th-order NARMA using the 360-dimensional vector and optimum damping constant. The results are clear evidence that the collection of diverse output signals efficiently increases the dimensionality effective for reservoir computing, i.e., reservoir-state richness. This paper demonstrates that performance enhancement through various configuration settings is a practical approach for on-chip reservoir computing devices with small numbers of real output nodes.
2209.10123v1
2008-12-31
Weak Solutions of the Stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation
The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation perturbed by a multiplicative space-dependent noise is considered for a ferromagnet filling a bounded three-dimensional domain. We show the existence of weak martingale solutions taking values in a sphere $\mathbb S^2$. The regularity of weak solutions is also discussed. Some of the regularity results are new even for the deterministic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.
0901.0039v1
2023-09-08
Branching points in the planar Gilbert--Steiner problem have degree 3
Gilbert--Steiner problem is a generalization of the Steiner tree problem on a specific optimal mass transportation. We show that every branching point in a solution of the planar Gilbert--Steiner problem has degree 3.
2309.04202v2
2000-06-09
Random values of the cosmological constant
One way that an anthropic selection mechanism may be manifest in a physical theory involves multiple domains in the universe with different values of the physical parameters. If this mechanism is to be relevant for understanding the small observed value of the cosmological constant, it may involve a mechanism by which some contributions to the cosmological constant can be fixed at a continuous range of values in the different domains. I study the properties of four possible mechanisms, including the possibility of the Hubble damping of a scalar field with an extremely flat potential. Another interesting possibility involves fixed random values of non-dynamical form fields, and a cosmological mechanism is suggested. This case raises the possibility of anthropic selection of other parameters in addition. Further requirements needed for a consistent cosmology are discussed.
0006088v2
2013-05-11
Dividing Line between Quantum and Classical Trajectories: Bohmian Time Constant
This work proposes an answer to a challenge posed by Bell on the lack of clarity in regards to the line between the quantum and classical regimes in a measurement problem. To this end, a generalized logarithmic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is proposed to describe the time evolution of a quantum dissipative system under continuous measurement. Within the Bohmian mechanics framework, a solution to this equation reveals a novel result: it displays a time constant which should represent the dividing line between the quantum and classical trajectories. It is shown that continuous measurements and damping not only disturb the particle but compel the system to converge in time to a Newtonian regime. While the width of the wave packet may reach a stationary regime, its quantum trajectories converge exponentially in time to classical trajectories. In particular, it is shown that damping tends to suppress further quantum effects on a time scale shorter than the relaxation time of the system. If the initial wave packet width is taken to be equal to 2.8 10^{-15} m (the approximate size of an electron), the Bohmian time constant is found to have an upper limit, i. e., ${\tau_{B\max}} = {10^{- 26}}s$.
1305.2517v2
2014-08-20
Building accurate initial models using gain functions for waveform inversion in the Laplace domain
We suggest an initial model building technique using time gain functions in the Laplace domain. Applying the gain expressed as a power of time is equivalent to taking the partial derivative of the Laplace-domain wavefield with respect to a damping constant. We construct an objective function, which minimizes the logarithmic differences between the gained field data and the partial derivative of the modeled data with respect to the damping constant. We calculate the modeled wavefield, the partial derivative wavefield, and the gradient direction in the Laplace domain using the analytic Green's function starting from a constant velocity model. This is an efficient method to generate an accurate initial model for a following Laplace-domain inversion. Numerical examples using two marine field datasets confirm that a starting model updated once from a scratch using the gradient direction calculated with the proposed method can be successfully used for a subsequent Laplace-domain inversion.
1408.5872v1
1995-10-16
Star Formation and Chemical Evolution in Damped Lya Clouds
Using the redshift evolution of the neutral hydrogen density, as inferred from observations of damped Ly$\alpha$ clouds, we calculate the evolution of star formation rates and elemental abundances in the universe. For most observables our calculations are in rough agreement with previous results based on the instantaneous re-cycling approximation (IRA). However, for the key metallicity tracer Zn, we find a better match to the observed abundance at high redshift than that given by the constant-yield IRA model. We investigate whether the redshift evolution of deuterium, depressions in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background, and measurement of the MeV neutrino background may help determine if observational bias due to dust obscuration is important. We also indicate how the importance of dust on the calculations can be significantly reduced if correlations of the HI column density with metallicity are present. The possibilities for measuring $q_o$ with observations of elemental abundances in damped Ly$\alpha$ systems are discussed.
9510078v1
2003-03-27
Oscillatory wave fronts in chains of coupled nonlinear oscillators
Wave front pinning and propagation in damped chains of coupled oscillators are studied. There are two important thresholds for an applied constant stress $F$: for $|F|<F_{cd}$ (dynamic Peierls stress), wave fronts fail to propagate, for $F_{cd} < |F| < F_{cs}$ stable static and moving wave fronts coexist, and for $|F| > F_{cs}$ (static Peierls stress) there are only stable moving wave fronts. For piecewise linear models, extending an exact method of Atkinson and Cabrera's to chains with damped dynamics corroborates this description. For smooth nonlinearities, an approximate analytical description is found by means of the active point theory. Generically for small or zero damping, stable wave front profiles are non-monotone and become wavy (oscillatory) in one of their tails.
0303576v1
2003-07-22
Classical dynamics of a nano-mechanical resonator coupled to a single-electron transistor
We analyze the dynamics of a nano-mechanical resonator coupled to a single-electron transistor (SET) in the regime where the resonator behaves classically. A master equation is derived describing the dynamics of the coupled system which is then used to obtain equations of motion for the average charge state of the SET and the average position of the resonator. We show that the action of the SET on the resonator is very similar to that of a thermal bath, as it leads to a steady-state probability-distribution for the resonator which can be described by mean values of the resonator position, a renormalized frequency, an effective temperature and an intrinsic damping constant. Including the effects of extrinsic damping and finite temperature, we find that there remain experimentally accessible regimes where the intrinsic damping of the resonator still dominates its behavior. We also obtain the average current through the SET as a function of the coupling to the resonator.
0307528v1
2006-05-16
Collective mode damping and viscosity in a 1D unitary Fermi gas
We calculate the damping of the Bogoliubov-Anderson mode in a one-dimensional two-component attractive Fermi gas for arbitrary coupling strength within a quantum hydrodynamic approach. Using the Bethe-Ansatz solution of the 1D BCS-BEC crossover problem, we derive analytic results for the viscosity covering the full range from a Luther-Emery liquid of weakly bound pairs to a Lieb-Liniger gas of strongly bound bosonic dimers. At the unitarity point, the system is a Tonks-Girardeau gas with a universal constant $\alpha_{\zeta}=0.38$ in the viscosity $\zeta=\alpha_{\zeta}\hbar n$ for T=0. For the trapped case, we calculate the Q-factor of the breathing mode and show that the damping provides a sensitive measure of temperature in 1D Fermi gases.
0605413v2
1996-03-14
Dissipation and Topologically Massive Gauge Theories in Pseudoeuclidean Plane
In the pseudo-euclidean metrics Chern-Simons gauge theory in the infrared region is found to be associated with dissipative dynamics. In the infrared limit the Lagrangian of 2+1 dimensional pseudo-euclidean topologically massive electrodynamics has indeed the same form of the Lagrangian of the damped harmonic oscillator. On the hyperbolic plane a set of two damped harmonic oscillators, each other time-reversed, is shown to be equivalent to a single undamped harmonic oscillator. The equations for the damped oscillators are proven to be the same as the ones for the Lorentz force acting on two particles carrying opposite charge in a constant magnetic field and in the electric harmonic potential. This provides an immediate link with Chern-Simons-like dynamics of Bloch electrons in solids propagating along the lattice plane with hyperbolic energy surface. The symplectic structure of the reduced theory is finally discussed in the Dirac constrained canonical formalism.
9603092v1
2002-02-12
Landau Damping and Coherent Structures in Narrow-Banded 1+1 Deep Water Gravity Waves
We study the nonlinear energy transfer around the peak of the spectrum of surface gravity waves by taking into account nonhomogeneous effects. In the narrow-banded approximation the kinetic equation resulting from a nonhomogeneous wave field is a Vlasov-Poisson type equation which includes at the same time the random version of the Benjamin-Feir instability and the Landau damping phenomenon. We analytically derive the values of the Phillips' constant $\alpha$ and the enhancement factor $\gamma$ for which the narrow-banded approximation of the JONSWAP spectrum is unstable. By performing numerical simulations of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation we check the validity of the prediction of the related kinetic equation. We find that the effect of Landau damping is to suppress the formation of coherent structures. The problem of predicting freak waves is briefly discussed.
0202026v1
2006-07-31
Nonadiabatic Transitions for a Decaying Two-Level-System: Geometrical and Dynamical Contributions
We study the Landau-Zener Problem for a decaying two-level-system described by a non-hermitean Hamiltonian, depending analytically on time. Use of a super-adiabatic basis allows to calculate the non-adiabatic transition probability P in the slow-sweep limit, without specifying the Hamiltonian explicitly. It is found that P consists of a ``dynamical'' and a ``geometrical'' factors. The former is determined by the complex adiabatic eigenvalues E_(t), only, whereas the latter solely requires the knowledge of \alpha_(+-)(t), the ratio of the components of each of the adiabatic eigenstates. Both factors can be split into a universal one, depending only on the complex level crossing points, and a nonuniversal one, involving the full time dependence of E_(+-)(t). This general result is applied to the Akulin-Schleich model where the initial upper level is damped with damping constant $\gamma$. For analytic power-law sweeps we find that Stueckelberg oscillations of P exist for gamma smaller than a critical value gamma_c and disappear for gamma > gamma_c. A physical interpretation of this behavior will be presented by use of a damped harmonic oscillator.
0607221v1
2007-06-01
The geometrical quantity in damped wave equations on a square
The energy in a square membrane $\Omega$ subject to constant viscous damping on a subset $\omega\subset \Omega$ decays exponentially in time as soon as $\omega$ satisfies a geometrical condition known as the "Bardos-Lebeau-Rauch" condition. The rate $\tau(\omega)$ of this decay satisfies $\tau(\omega)= 2 \min(-\mu(\omega), g(\omega))$ (see Lebeau [Math. Phys. Stud. 19 (1996) 73-109]). Here $\mu(\omega)$ denotes the spectral abscissa of the damped wave equation operator and $g(\omega)$ is a number called the geometrical quantity of $\omega$ and defined as follows. A ray in $\Omega$ is the trajectory generated by the free motion of a mass-point in $\Omega$ subject to elastic reflections on the boundary. These reflections obey the law of geometrical optics. The geometrical quantity $g(\omega)$ is then defined as the upper limit (large time asymptotics) of the average trajectory length. We give here an algorithm to compute explicitly $g(\omega)$ when $\omega$ is a finite union of squares.
0706.0172v1
2009-10-14
Constraint on the growth factor of the cosmic structure from the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillation signature
We determine a constraint on the growth factor by measuring the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the matter power spectrum using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy sample. The damping of the BAO is detected at the one sigma level. We obtain \sigma_8D_1(z=0.3) = 0.42^{+0.34}_{-0.28} at the 1\sigma statistical level, where \sigma_8 is the root mean square overdensity in a sphere of radius 8h^{-1}Mpc and D_1(z) is the growth factor at redshift z. The above result assumes that other parameters are fixed and the cosmology is taken to be a spatially flat cold dark matter universe with the cosmological constant.
0910.2513v1
2011-02-04
A symmetry trip from Caldirola to Bateman damped systems
For the Caldirola-Kanai system, describing a quantum damped harmonic oscillator, a couple of constant-of-motion operators generating the Heisenberg algebra can be found. The inclusion of the standard time evolution symmetry in this algebra for damped systems, in a unitary manner, requires a non-trivial extension of this basic algebra and hence the physical system itself. Surprisingly, this extension leads directly to the so-called Bateman's dual system, which now includes a new particle acting as an energy reservoir. The group of symmetries of the dual system is presented, as well as a quantization that implies, in particular, a first-order Schr\"odinger equation. The usual second-order equation and the inclusion of the original Caldirola-Kanai model in Bateman's system are also discussed.
1102.0990v1
2011-03-08
Steady states of the parametric rotator and pendulum
We discuss several steady-state rotation and oscillation modes of the planar parametric rotator and pendulum with damping. We consider a general elliptic trajectory of the suspension point for both rotator and pendulum, for the latter at an arbitrary angle with gravity, with linear and circular trajectories as particular cases. We treat the damped, non-linear equation of motion of the parametric rotator and pendulum perturbatively for small parametric excitation and damping, although our perturbative approach can be extended to other regimes as well. Our treatment involves only ordinary second-order differential equations with constant coefficients, and provides numerically accurate perturbative solutions in terms of elementary functions. Some of the steady-state rotation and oscillation modes studied here have not been discussed in the previous literature. Other well-known ones, such as parametric resonance and the inverted pendulum, are extended to elliptic parametric excitation tilted with respect to gravity. The results presented here should be accessible to advanced undergraduates, and of interest to graduate students and specialists in the field of non-linear mechanics.
1103.1413v1
2011-06-17
Controlling Excitations Inversion of a Cooper Pair Box Interacting with a Nanomechanical Resonator
We investigate the action of time dependent detunings upon the excitation inversion of a Cooper pair box interacting with a nanomechanical resonator. The method employs the Jaynes-Cummings model with damping, assuming different decay rates of the Cooper pair box and various fixed and t-dependent detunings. It is shown that while the presence of damping plus constant detunings destroy the collapse/revival effects, convenient choices of time dependent detunings allow one to reconstruct such events in a perfect way. It is also shown that the mean excitation of the nanomechanical resonator is more robust against damping of the Cooper pair box for convenient values of t-dependent detunings.
1106.3379v1
2011-07-24
Traveling kinks in cubic nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau equations
Nonlinear cubic Euler-Lagrange equations of motion in the traveling variable are usually derived from Ginzburg-Landau free energy functionals frequently encountered in several fields of physics. Many authors considered in the past damped versions of such equations with the damping term added by hand simulating the friction due to the environment. It is known that even in this damped case kink solutions can exist. By means of a factorization method, we provide analytic formulas for several possible kink solutions of such equations of motion in the undriven and constant field driven cases, including the recently introduced Riccati parameter kinks which were not considered previously in such a context. The latter parameter controls the delay of the switching stage of the kinks
1107.4773v4
2011-12-02
An energy-based computational method in the analysis of the transmission of energy in a chain of coupled oscillators
In this paper we study the phenomenon of nonlinear supratransmission in a semi-infinite discrete chain of coupled oscillators described by modified sine-Gordon equations with constant external and internal damping, and subject to harmonic external driving at the end. We develop a consistent and conditionally stable finite-difference scheme in order to analyze the effect of damping in the amount of energy injected in the chain of oscillators; numerical bifurcation analyses to determine the dependence of the amplitude at which supratransmission first occurs with respect to the frequency of the driving oscillator are carried out in order to show the consequences of damping on harmonic phonon quenching and the delay of appearance of critical amplitude.
1112.0581v1
2014-08-25
Spin-Scattering Rates in Metallic Thin Films Measured by Ferromagnetic Resonance Damping Enhanced by Spin-Pumping
We determined the spin-transport properties of Pd and Pt thin films by measuring the increase in ferromagnetic resonance damping due to spin-pumping in ferromagnetic (FM)-nonferromagnetic metal (NM) multilayers with varying NM thicknesses. The increase in damping with NM thickness depends strongly on both the spin- and charge-transport properties of the NM, as modeled by diffusion equations that include both momentum- and spin-scattering parameters. We use the analytical solution to the spin-diffusion equations to obtain spin-diffusion lengths for Pt and Pd. By measuring the dependence of conductivity on NM thickness, we correlate the charge- and spin-transport parameters, and validate the applicability of various models for momentum-scattering and spin-scattering rates in these systems: constant, inverse-proportional (Dyakanov-Perel), and linear-proportional (Elliot-Yafet). We confirm previous reports that the spin-scattering time can be shorter than the momentum scattering time in Pt, and the Dyakanov-Perel-like model is the best fit to the data.
1408.5921v2
2015-04-09
Periodic-coefficient damping estimates, and stability of large-amplitude roll waves in inclined thin film flow
A technical obstruction preventing the conclusion of nonlinear stability of large-Froude number roll waves of the St. Venant equations for inclined thin film flow is the "slope condition" of Johnson-Noble-Zumbrun, used to obtain pointwise symmetrizability of the linearized equations and thereby high-frequency resolvent bounds and a crucial H s nonlinear damping estimate. Numerically, this condition is seen to hold for Froude numbers 2 \textless{} F 3.5, but to fail for 3.5 F. As hydraulic engineering applications typically involve Froude number 3 F 5, this issue is indeed relevant to practical considerations. Here, we show that the pointwise slope condition can be replaced by an averaged version which holds always, thereby completing the nonlinear theory in the large-F case. The analysis has potentially larger interest as an extension to the periodic case of a type of weighted "Kawashima-type" damping estimate introduced in the asymptotically-constant coefficient case for the study of stability of large-amplitude viscous shock waves.
1504.02292v1
2015-05-08
Existence and general stabilization of the Timoshenko system with a thermo-viscoelastic damping and a delay term in the internal feedback
In this paper, we consider a Timoshenko system with a thermo-viscoelastic damping and a delay term in the internal feedback together with initial datum and boundary conditions of Dirichlet type, where g is a positive non-increasing relaxation function and {\mu}1, {\mu}2 are positive constants. Under an hypothesis between the weight of the delay term in the feedback and the the weight of the friction damping term, using the Faedo-Galerkin approximations together with some energy estimates, we prove the global existence of the solutions. Then, by introducing appropriate Lyapunov functionals, under the imposed constrain on the weights of the two feedbacks and the coefficients, we establish the general energy decay result from which the exponential and polynomial types of decay are only special cases.
1505.01899v1
2016-05-26
Thickness and temperature dependence of the magnetodynamic damping of pulsed laser deposited $\text{La}_{0.7}\text{Sr}_{0.3}\text{MnO}_3$ on (111)-oriented SrTi$\text{O}_3$
We have investigated the magnetodynamic properties of $\text{La}_{0.7}\text{Sr}_{0.3}\text{MnO}_3$ (LSMO) films of thickness 10, 15 and 30 nm grown on (111)-oriented SrTi$\text{O}_3$ (STO) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) experiments were performed in the temperature range 100--300 K, and the magnetodynamic damping parameter $\alpha$ was extracted as a function of both film thickness and temperature. We found that the damping is lowest for the intermediate film thickness of 15 nm with $\alpha \approx 2 \cdot 10^{-3}$, where $\alpha$ is relatively constant as a function of temperature well below the Curie temperature of the respective films.
1605.08195v2
2017-08-30
Convergence to diffusion waves for solutions of Euler equations with time-depending damping on quadrant
This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solution to the Euler equations with time-depending damping on quadrant $(x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^+\times\mathbb{R}^+$, \begin{equation}\notag \partial_t v - \partial_x u=0, \qquad \partial_t u + \partial_x p(v) =\displaystyle -\frac{\alpha}{(1+t)^\lambda} u, \end{equation} with null-Dirichlet boundary condition or null-Neumann boundary condition on $u$. We show that the corresponding initial-boundary value problem admits a unique global smooth solution which tends time-asymptotically to the nonlinear diffusion wave. Compared with the previous work about Euler equations with constant coefficient damping, studied by Nishihara and Yang (1999, J. Differential Equations, 156, 439-458), and Jiang and Zhu (2009, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 23, 887-918), we obtain a general result when the initial perturbation belongs to the same space. In addition, our main novelty lies in the facts that the cut-off points of the convergence rates are different from our previous result about the Cauchy problem. Our proof is based on the classical energy method and the analyses of the nonlinear diffusion wave.
1708.09127v1
2017-11-01
Tunable magnetization relaxation of Fe_{2}Cr_{1-x}Co_{x}Si half-metallic Heusler alloys by band structure engineering
We report a systematic investigation on the magnetization relaxation properties of iron-based half-metallic Heusler alloy Fe$_{2}$Cr$_{1-x}$Co_${x}$Si (FCCS) thin films using broadband angular-resolved ferromagnetic resonance. Band structure engineering through Co doping (x) demonstrated by first-principles calculations is shown to tune the intrinsic magnetic damping over an order of magnitude, namely 0.01-0.0008. Notably, the intrinsic damping constants for samples with high Co concentration are among the lowest reported for Heusler alloys and even comparable to magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet. Furthermore, a significant reduction of both isotropic and anisotropic contributions of extrinsic damping of the FCCS alloys was found in the FCCS films with x=0.5-0.75, which is of particular importance for applications. These results demonstrate a practical recipe to tailor functional magnetization for Heusler alloy-based spintronics at room temperature
1711.00406v1
2018-01-23
The effect of liquid on the vibrational intensity of a wineglass at steady state resonance
As a liquid is inserted into a wineglass, the natural frequency of the wineglass decreases. This phenomenon, known as pitch lowering, is well explained in past papers. However, previous literature have not yet mentioned that pitch lowering also reduces the resonance intensity of a wineglass. Thus, this present paper aims to extend the body of research on this topic by describing the relationship between pitch lowering and its effect on resonation intensity. To do so, we identify the vibrating wineglass wall as a damped harmonic oscillator, derive a theoretical model, and find that the resonance intensity of the wineglass is proportional to the square of its natural frequency, under the assumption that damping stays constant. However, our experiments showed the coefficient of damping to increase with respect to the amount of liquid, which caused the data to deviate from its theoretical predictions. We conclude by discussing the accuracy and limitation of our proposed model.
1801.07514v5
2018-04-11
A global existence result for a semilinear wave equation with scale-invariant damping and mass in even space dimension
In the present article a semilinear wave equation with scale-invariant damping and mass is considered. The global (in time) existence of radial symmetric solutions in even spatial dimension $n$ is proved using weighted $L^\infty-L^\infty$ estimates, under the assumption that the multiplicative constants, which appear in the coefficients of damping and of mass terms, fulfill an interplay condition which yields somehow a "wave-like" model. In particular, combining this existence result with a recently proved blow-up result, a suitable shift of Strauss exponent is proved to be the critical exponent for the considered model. Moreover, the still open part of a conjecture done by D'Abbicco - Lucente - Reissig is proved to be true in the massless case.
1804.03978v1
2018-12-21
Reply to the Comment on "Negative Landau damping in bilayer graphene"
Here we address the concerns of Svintsov and Ryzhii [arXiv:1812.03764] on our article on negative Landau damping in graphene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 133901 (2017)]. We prove that due to the differences between the kinetic and canonical momenta, the conductivity of drift-current biased graphene is ruled by a Galilean transformation when the electron-electron interactions predominate and force the electron gas to move with constant velocity, similar to a moving medium. Furthermore, it is shown that the nonlocal effects in graphene neither preclude a negative Landau damping nor the emergence of instabilities in graphene platforms.
1812.09103v3
2018-12-30
Smooth, Time-invariant Regulation of Nonholonomic Systems via Energy Pumping-and-Damping
In this paper we propose an energy pumping-and-damping technique to regulate nonholonomic systems described by kinematic models. The controller design follows the widely popular interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based methodology, with the free matrices partially structured. Two asymptotic regulation objectives are considered: drive to zero the state or drive the systems total energy to a desired constant value. In both cases, the control laws are smooth, time-invariant, state-feedbacks. For the nonholonomic integrator we give an almost global solution for both problems, with the objectives ensured for all system initial conditions starting outside a set that has zero Lebesgue measure and is nowhere dense. For the general case of higher-order nonholonomic systems in chained form, a local stability result is given. Simulation results comparing the performance of the proposed controller with other existing designs are also provided.
1812.11538v2
2017-03-28
Singularity formation for the 1D compressible Euler equation with variable damping coefficient
In this paper, we consider some blow-up problems for the 1D Euler equation with time and space dependent damping. We investigate sufficient conditions on initial data and the rate of spatial or time-like decay of the coefficient of damping for the occurrence of the finite time blow-up. In particular, our sufficient conditions ensure that the derivative blow-up occurs in finite time with the solution itself and the pressure bounded. Our method is based on simple estimates with Riemann invariants. Furthermore, we give sharp lower and upper estimates of the lifespan of solutions, when initial data are small perturbations of constant states.
1703.09821v3
2020-03-25
Sharp ultimate velocity bounds for the general solution of some linear second order evolution equation with damping and bounded forcing
We consider a class of linear second order differential equations with damping and external force. We investigate the link between a uniform bound on the forcing term and the corresponding ultimate bound on the velocity of solutions, and we study the dependence of that bound on the damping and on the "elastic force". We prove three results. First of all, in a rather general setting we show that different notions of bound are actually equivalent. Then we compute the optimal constants in the scalar case. Finally, we extend the results of the scalar case to abstract dissipative wave-type equations in Hilbert spaces. In that setting we obtain rather sharp estimates that are quite different from the scalar case, in both finite and infinite dimensional frameworks. The abstract theory applies, in particular, to dissipative wave, plate and beam equations.
2003.11579v1
2020-08-18
Survey of 360$^{\circ}$ domain walls in magnetic heterostructures: topology, chirality and current-driven dynamics
Chirality and current-driven dynamics of topologically nontrivial 360$^{\circ}$ domain walls (360DWs) in magnetic heterostructures (MHs) are systematically investigated. For MHs with normal substrates, the static 360DWs are N\'{e}el-type with no chirality. While for those with heavy-metal substrates, the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI) therein makes 360DWs prefer specific chirality. Under in-plane driving charge currents, as the direct result of "full-circle" topology a certain 360DW does not undergo the "Walker breakdown"-type process like a well-studied 180$^{\circ}$ domain wall as the current density increases. Alternatively, it keeps a fixed propagating mode (either steady-flow or precessional-flow, depending on the effective damping constant of the MH) until it collapses or changes to other types of solition when the current density becomes too high. Similarly, the field-like spin-orbit torque (SOT) has no effects on the dynamics of 360DWs, while the anti-damping SOT has. For both modes, modifications to the mobility of 360DWs by iDMI and anti-damping SOT are provided.
2008.08196v1
2019-05-20
Quantum parameter-estimation of frequency and damping of a harmonic-oscillator
We determine the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for the precision with which the oscillator frequency and damping constant of a damped quantum harmonic oscillator in an arbitrary Gaussian state can be estimated. This goes beyond standard quantum parameter estimation of a single mode Gaussian state for which typically a mode of fixed frequency is assumed. We present a scheme through which the frequency estimation can nevertheless be based on the known results for single-mode quantum parameter estimation with Gaussian states. Based on these results, we investigate the optimal measurement time. For measuring the oscillator frequency, our results unify previously known partial results and constitute an explicit solution for a general single-mode Gaussian state. Furthermore, we show that with existing carbon nanotube resonators (see J. Chaste et al.~Nature Nanotechnology 7, 301 (2012)) it should be possible to achieve a mass sensitivity of the order of an electron mass $\text{Hz}^{-1/2}$.
1905.08288v1
2021-11-26
Transition from order to chaos in reduced quantum dynamics
We study a damped kicked top dynamics of a large number of qubits ($N \rightarrow \infty$) and focus on an evolution of a reduced single-qubit subsystem. Each subsystem is subjected to the amplitude damping channel controlled by the damping constant $r\in [0,1]$, which plays the role of the single control parameter. In the parameter range for which the classical dynamics is chaotic, while varying $r$ we find the universal period-doubling behavior characteristic to one-dimensional maps: period-two dynamics starts at $r_1 \approx 0.3181$, while the next bifurcation occurs at $ r_2 \approx 0.5387$. In parallel with period-four oscillations observed for $r \leq r_3 \approx 0.5672$, we identify a secondary bifurcation diagram around $r\approx 0.544$, responsible for a small-scale chaotic dynamics inside the attractor. The doubling of the principal bifurcation tree continues until $r \leq r_{\infty} \sim 0.578$, which marks the onset of the full scale chaos interrupted by the windows of the oscillatory dynamics corresponding to the Sharkovsky order.
2111.13477v1
2022-01-12
Local Well-Posedness of the Gravity-Capillary Water Waves System in the Presence of Geometry and Damping
We consider the gravity-capillary water waves problem in a domain $\Omega_t \subset \mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$ with substantial geometric features. Namely, we consider a variable bottom, smooth obstacles in the flow and a constant background current. We utilize a vortex sheet model introduced by Ambrose, et. al. in arXiv:2108.01786. We show that the water waves problem is locally-in-time well-posed in this geometric setting and study the lifespan of solutions. We then add a damping term and derive evolution equations that account for the damper. Ultimately, we show that the same well-posedness and lifespan results apply to the damped system. We primarily utilize energy methods.
2201.04713v2
2023-05-09
Lifespan estimates for semilinear damped wave equation in a two-dimensional exterior domain
Lifespan estimates for semilinear damped wave equations of the form $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+\partial_tu=|u|^p$ in a two dimensional exterior domain endowed with the Dirichlet boundary condition are dealt with. For the critical case of the semilinear heat equation $\partial_tv-\Delta v=v^2$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition and the initial condition $v(0)=\varepsilon f$, the corresponding lifespan can be estimated from below and above by $\exp(\exp(C\varepsilon^{-1}))$ with different constants $C$. This paper clarifies that the same estimates hold even for the critical semilinear damped wave equation in the exterior of the unit ball under the restriction of radial symmetry. To achieve this result, a new technique to control $L^1$-type norm and a new Gagliardo--Nirenberg type estimate with logarithmic weight are introduced.
2305.05124v1
2023-09-25
Linearly implicit exponential integrators for damped Hamiltonian PDEs
Structure-preserving linearly implicit exponential integrators are constructed for Hamiltonian partial differential equations with linear constant damping. Linearly implicit integrators are derived by polarizing the polynomial terms of the Hamiltonian function and portioning out the nonlinearly of consecutive time steps. They require only a solution of one linear system at each time step. Therefore they are computationally more advantageous than implicit integrators. We also construct an exponential version of the well-known one-step Kahan's method by polarizing the quadratic vector field. These integrators are applied to one-dimensional damped Burger's, Korteweg-de-Vries, and nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations. Preservation of the dissipation rate of linear and quadratic conformal invariants and the Hamiltonian is illustrated by numerical experiments.
2309.14184v2
2024-03-10
Linear-in-temperature resistivity and Planckian dissipation arise in a stochastic quantization model of Cooper pairs
We suppose that a Cooper pair (CP) will experience a damping force exerted by the condensed matter. A Langevin equation of a CP in two dimensional condensed matter is established. Following a method similar to Nelson's stochastic mechanics, generalized Schr\"{o}dinger equation of a CP in condensed matter is derived. If the CPs move with a constant velocity, then the corresponding direct current (DC) electrical conductivity can be calculated. Therefore, a Drude like formula of resistivity of CPs is derived. We suppose that the damping coefficient of CPs in two dimensional cuprate superconductors is a linear function of temperature. Then the resistivity and scattering rate of CPs turn out to be also linear-in-temperature. The origin of linear-in-temperature resistivity and Planckian dissipation in cuprate superconductors may be the linear temperature dependence of the damping coefficient of CPs.
2403.09710v1
2019-11-05
Observation of Nanoscale Opto-Mechanical Molecular Damping; Origin of Spectroscopic Contrast in Photo Induced Force Microscopy
We experimentally investigated the contrast mechanism of infrared photoinduced force microscopy (PiFM) for recording vibrational resonances. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that spectroscopic contrast in PiFM is mediated by opto-mechanical damping of the cantilever oscillation as the optical wavelength is scanned through optical resonance. To our knowledge, this is the first time opto-mechanical damping has been observed in the AFM. We hypothesize that this damping force is a consequence of the dissipative interaction between the sample and the vibrating tip; the modulated light source in PiFM modulates the effective damping constant of the 2nd eigenmode of the cantilever which in turn generate side-band signals producing the PiFM signal at the 1st eigenmode. A series of experiments have eliminated other mechanisms of contrast. By tracking the frequency shift of the PiFM signal at the 1st cantilever eigenmode as the excitation wavenumber is tuned through a mid-infrared absorption band, we showed that the near-field optical interaction is attractive. By using a vibrating piezoelectric crystal to mimic sample thermal expansion in a PiFM operating in mixing mode, we determined that the minimum thermal expansion our system can detect is 30 pm limited by system noise. We have confirmed that van der Waal mediated thermal-expansion forces have negligible effect on PiFM signals by detecting the resonant response of a 4-methylbenzenethiol mono molecular layer deposited on template-stripped gold, where thermal expansion was expected to be < 3 pm, i.e., 10 times lower than our system noise level. Finally, the basic theory for dissipative tip-sample interactions was introduced to model the photoinduced opto-mechanical damping. Theoretical simulations are in excellent agreement with experiment.
1911.05190v1
2024-03-28
Constants of Motion for Conserved and Non-conserved Dynamics
This paper begins with a dynamical model that was obtained by applying a machine learning technique (FJet) to time-series data; this dynamical model is then analyzed with Lie symmetry techniques to obtain constants of motion. This analysis is performed on both the conserved and non-conserved cases of the 1D and 2D harmonic oscillators. For the 1D oscillator, constants are found in the cases where the system is underdamped, overdamped, and critically damped. The novel existence of such a constant for a non-conserved model is interpreted as a manifestation of the conservation of energy of the {\em total} system (i.e., oscillator plus dissipative environment). For the 2D oscillator, constants are found for the isotropic and anisotropic cases, including when the frequencies are incommensurate; it is also generalized to arbitrary dimensions. In addition, a constant is identified which generalizes angular momentum for all ratios of the frequencies. The approach presented here can produce {\em multiple} constants of motion from a {\em single}, generic data set.
2403.19418v1
2003-06-30
Damped oscillatory integrals and boundedness of maximal operators associated to mixed homogeneous hypersurfaces
We study the boundedness problem for maximal operators in 3-dimensional Euclidean space associated to hypersurfaces given as the graph of $c+f$, where $f$ is a mixed homogeneous function which is smooth away from the origin and $c$ is a constant. Our result generalizes a corresponding theorem on mixed homogeneous polynomial functions by A. Iosevich and E. Sawyer.
0306429v1
2005-07-26
On simulations of the classical harmonic oscillator equation by difference equations
We show that any second order linear ordinary diffrential equation with constant coefficients (including the damped and undumped harmonic oscillator equation) admits an exact discretization, i.e., there exists a difference equation whose solutions exactly coincide with solutions of the corresponding differential equation evaluated at a discrete sequence of points (a lattice). Such exact discretization is found for an arbitrary lattice spacing.
0507182v1
2015-11-12
Global weak solutions to 3D compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations with density-dependent viscosity
Global-in-time weak solutions to the Compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations in a three-dimensional torus for large data are considered in this paper. The system takes into account density-dependent viscosity and non-monotone presseur. We prove the existence of global weak solutions to NSP equations with damping term by using the Faedo-Galerkin method and the compactness arguments on the condition that the adiabatic constant satisfies $\gamma>\frac{4}{3}$.
1511.03841v1
2017-09-24
Exceptional points in two simple textbook examples
We propose to introduce the concept of exceptional points in intermediate courses on mathematics and classical mechanics by means of simple textbook examples. The first one is an ordinary second-order differential equation with constant coefficients. The second one is the well known damped harmonic oscillator. They enable one to connect the occurrence of linearly dependent exponential solutions with a defective matrix that cannot be diagonalized but can be transformed into a Jordan canonical form.
1710.00067v1
2012-09-08
Evidence for anisotropic polar nanoregions in relaxor PMN: A neutron study of the elastic constants and anomalous TA phonon damping
We use neutron scattering to characterize the acoustic phonons in the relaxor PMN and demonstrate the presence of an anisotropic damping mechanism directly related to short-range, polar correlations. For a large range of temperatures above Tc ~ 210, K, where dynamic polar correlations exist, acoustic phonons propagating along [1\bar{1}0] and polarized along [110] (TA2 phonons) are overdamped and softened across most of the Brillouin zone. By contrast, acoustic phonons propagating along [100] and polarized along [001] (TA1 phonons) are overdamped and softened for only a limited range of wavevectors. The anisotropy and temperature dependence of the acoustic phonon energy linewidth are directly correlated with the elastic diffuse scattering, indicating that polar nanoregions are the cause of the anomalous behavior. The damping and softening vanish for q -> 0, i.e. for long-wavelength acoustic phonons, which supports the notion that the anomalous damping is a result of the coupling between the relaxational component of the diffuse scattering and the harmonic TA phonons. Therefore, these effects are not due to large changes in the elastic constants with temperature because the elastic constants correspond to the long-wavelength limit. We compare the elastic constants we measure to those from Brillouin scattering and to values reported for pure PT. We show that while the values of C44 are quite similar, those for C11 and C12 are significantly less in PMN and result in a softening of (C11-C12) over PT. There is also an increased elastic anisotropy (2C44/(C11-C12)) versus that in PT. These results suggest an instability to TA2 acoustic fluctuations in relaxors. We discuss our results in the context of the debate over the "waterfall" effect and show that they are inconsistent with TA-TO phonon coupling or other models that invoke the presence of a second optic mode.
1209.1736v1
2015-12-03
Lieb-Thirring inequalities on the torus
We consider the Lieb-Thirring inequalities on the d-dimensional torus with arbitrary periods. In the space of functions with zero average with respect to the shortest coordinate we prove the Lieb-Thirring inequalities for the $\gamma$-moments of the negative eigenvalues with constants independent of ratio of the periods. Applications to the attractors of the damped Navier-Stokes system are given.
1512.01160v1
2021-07-21
Convergence rates for the Heavy-Ball continuous dynamics for non-convex optimization, under Polyak-Łojasiewicz condition
We study convergence of the trajectories of the Heavy Ball dynamical system, with constant damping coefficient, in the framework of convex and non-convex smooth optimization. By using the Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz condition, we derive new linear convergence rates for the associated trajectory, in terms of objective function values, without assuming uniqueness of the minimizer.
2107.10123v2
2022-05-06
Quaternion-based attitude stabilization via discrete-time IDA-PBC
In this paper, we propose a new sampled-data controller for stabilization of the attitude dynamics at a desired constant configuration. The design is based on discrete-time interconnection and damping assignment (IDA) passivity-based control (PBC) and the recently proposed Hamiltonian representation of discrete-time nonlinear dynamics. Approximate solutions are provided with simulations illustrating performances.
2205.03086v1
2024-04-03
Comment on "Machine learning conservation laws from differential equations"
In lieu of abstract, first paragraph reads: Six months after the author derived a constant of motion for a 1D damped harmonic oscillator [1], a similar result appeared by Liu, Madhavan, and Tegmark [2, 3], without citing the author. However, their derivation contained six serious errors, causing both their method and result to be incorrect. In this Comment, those errors are reviewed.
2404.02896v1
1994-05-31
The Behavior of a Spherical Hole in an Infinite Uniform Universe
In this paper, the behavior of a spherical hole in an otherwise infinite and uniform universe is investigated. First, the Newtonian theory is developed. The concept of negative gravity, an outward gravitational force acting away from the center of the spherical hole, is presented, and the resulting expansion of the hole is investigated. Then, the same result is derived using the techniques of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The field equations are solved for an infinite uniform universe and then for an infinite universe in which matter is uniformly distributed except for a spherical hole. Negative pressure caused by negative gravity is utilized. The physical significance of the cosmological constant is explained, and a new physical concept, that of the gravitational potential of a hole, is discussed. The relationship between the Newtonian potential for a hole and the Schwarzschild solution of the field equations is explored. Finally, the geodesic equations are considered. It is shown that photons and particles are deflected away from the hole. An application of this idea is pursued, in which a new cosmology based upon expanding holes in a uniform universe is developed. The microwave background radiation and Hubble's Law, among others, are explained. Finally, current astronomical data are used to compute a remarkably accurate value of Hubble's constant, as well as estimates of the average mass density of the universe and the cosmological constant.
9405075v1
2012-02-21
Making Evildoers Pay: Resource-Competitive Broadcast in Sensor Networks
Consider a time-slotted, single-hop, wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of n correct devices and and t=f*n Byzantine devices where f>=0 is any constant; that is, the Byzantine devices may outnumber the correct ones. There exists a trusted sender Alice who wishes to deliver a message m over a single channel to the correct devices. There also exists a malicious user Carol who controls the t Byzantine devices and uses them to disrupt the communication channel. For a constant k>=2, the correct and Byzantine devices each possess a meager energy budget of O(n^{1/k}), Alice and Carol each possess a limited budget of \tilde{O}(n^{1/k}), and sending or listening in a slot incurs unit cost. This general setup captures the inherent challenges of guaranteeing communication despite scarce resources and attacks on the network. Given this Alice versus Carol scenario, we ask: Is communication of m feasible and, if so, at what cost? We develop a protocol which, for an arbitrarily small constant \epsilon>0, ensures that at least (1-\epsilon)n correct devices receive m with high probability. Furthermore, if Carol's devices expend T energy jamming the channel, then Alice and the correct devices each spend only \tilde{O}(T^{1/(k+1)}). In other words, delaying the transmission of m forces a jammer to rapidly deplete its energy supply and, consequently, cease attacks on the network.
1202.4576v4