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1999-02-01
Numerical Study of Inhomogeneous Pre-Big-Bang Inflationary Cosmology
We study numerically the inhomogeneous pre-big-bang inflation in a spherically symmetric space-time. We find that a large initial inhomogeneity suppresses the onset of the pre-big-bang inflation. We also find that even if the pre-big-bang inflationary stage is realized, the initial inhomogeneities are not homogenized. Namely, during the pre-big-bang inflation ``hairs''(irregularities) do not fall, in sharp contrast to the usual (potential energy dominated) inflation where initial inhomogeneity and anisotropy are damped and thus the resulting universe is less sensitive to initial conditions.
9902003v1
1999-02-09
Quantum gravitational processes in a hot ultrarelativistic gas and their effect on the isotropic Universe evolution
The variant of quasiclassical (half-quantum) theory of gravity in strong gravitational field is presented. The exact solution of the problem of the renormalized energy-momentum tensor calculation is performed in terms of non-local operator-signed function. The procedure of quasilocalization is proposed, which leads to the equations of non-equilibrium thermodynamics for temperature and curvature. The effects of induced particle creation and media polarization are taking into account and used to solve the problem of non-Einstein's branches damping. The problem of Universe creation from "nothing" is also discussed.
9902023v1
1999-05-17
Parametric resonant acceleration of particles by gravitational waves
We study the resonant interaction of charged particles with a gravitational wave propagating in the non-empty interstellar space in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. It is found that this interaction can be cast in the form of a parametric resonance problem which, besides the main resonance, allows for the existence of many secondary ones. Each of them is associated with a non-zero resonant width, depending on the amplitude of the wave and the energy density of the interstellar plasma. Numerical estimates of the particles' energisation and the ensuing damping of the wave are given.
9905054v1
1999-08-27
Double cosmic walls in Teleparallel Gravity
An example is given of a plane topological torsion defect representing a cosmic wall double wall in teleparallel gravity.The parallel planar walls undergone a repulsive gravitational force due to Cartan torsion.This is the first example of a non-Riemannian double cosmic wall.It is shown that the walls oscillate with a speed that depends on torsion and on the surface density of the wall.Cartan torsion acts also as a damping force reducing the speed of oscillation when it is stronger.
9908070v1
1999-09-30
Does a dynamical system lose energy by emitting gravitational waves?
We note that Eddington's radiation damping calculation of a spinning rod fails to account for the complete mass integral as given by Tolman. The missing stress contributions precisely cancel the standard rate given by the 'quadrupole formula'. This indicates that while the usual 'kinetic' term can properly account for dynamical changes in the source, the actual mass is conserved. Hence gravity waves are not carriers of energy in vacuum. This supports the hypothesis that energy including the gravitational contribution is confined to regions of non-vanishing energy-momentum tensor $T_{ik}$. PACS numbers: 04.20.Cv, 04.30.-w
9909095v1
2000-01-07
Transition from inspiral to plunge in binary black hole coalescences
Combining recent techniques giving non-perturbative re-summed estimates of the damping and conservative parts of the two-body dynamics, we describe the transition between the adiabatic phase and the plunge, in coalescing binary black holes with comparable masses moving on quasi-circular orbits. We give initial dynamical data for numerical relativity investigations, with a fraction of an orbit left, and provide, for data analysis purposes, an estimate of the gravitational wave-form emitted throughout the inspiral, plunge and coalescence phases.
0001013v2
2000-02-22
On the experimental foundations of the Maxwell equations
We begin by reviewing the derivation of generalized Maxwell equations from an operational definition of the electromagnetic field and the most basic notions of what constitutes a dynamical field theory. These equations encompass the familiar Maxwell equations as a special case but, in other cases, can predict birefringence, charge non-conservation, wave damping and other effects that the familiar Maxwell equations do not. It follows that observational constraints on such effects can restrict the dynamics of the electromagnetic field to be very like the familiar Maxwellian dynamics, thus, providing an empirical foundation for the Maxwell equations. We discuss some specific observational results that contribute to that foundation.
0002075v1
2001-06-06
Black Hole Decay Rates in Large Extra Dimensions
We study the evaporation of black holes in space-times with extra dimensions of size L. We show that the luminosity is greatly damped when the horizon becomes smaller than L and black holes born with an initial size smaller than L are almost stable. This effect is due to the dependence of both the occupation number density of Hawking quanta and the grey-body factor of a black hole on the dimensionality of space.
0106018v1
2001-11-29
Decoherence and gravitational backgrounds
We study the decoherence process associated with the scattering of stochastic gravitational waves. We discuss the case of macroscopic systems, such as the planetary motion of the Moon around the Earth, for which gravitational scattering is found to dominate decoherence though it has a negligible influence on damping. This contrast is due to the very high effective temperature of the background of gravitational waves in our galactic environment.
0111105v1
2002-08-13
Orbital evolution of a test particle around a black hole: higher-order corrections
We study the orbital evolution of a radiation-damped binary in the extreme mass ratio limit, and the resulting waveforms, to one order beyond what can be obtained using the conservation laws approach. The equations of motion are solved perturbatively in the mass ratio (or the corresponding parameter in the scalar field toy model), using the self force, for quasi-circular orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole. This approach is applied for the scalar model. Higher-order corrections yield a phase shift which, if included, may make gravitational-wave astronomy potentially highly accurate.
0208034v1
2003-01-21
Quasinormal modes of the near extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole
We present an exact expression for the quasinormal modes of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of a near extremal Scwarzschild-de Sitter black hole and we show why a previous approximation holds exactly in this near extremal regime. In particular, our results give the asymptotic behavior of the quasinormal frequencies for highly damped modes, which as recently attracted much attention due to the proposed identification of its real part with the Barbero-Immirzi parameter.
0301078v2
2003-03-03
Quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes: The determination of the quasinormal frequencies with a new technique
We compute the quasinormal frequencies of rotating black holes using the continued fraction method first proposed by Leaver. The main difference with former works, is that our results are obtained by a new numerical technique which avoids the use of two dimensional root-finding routines. The technique is applied to evaluate the angular eigenvalues of Teukolsky's angular equation. This method allow us to calculate both the slowly and the rapidly damped quasinormal frequencies with excellent accuracy.
0303011v1
2003-09-18
Analytic determination of the asymptotic quasi-normal mode spectrum of small Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes
Following the monodromy technique performed by Motl and Neitzke, we consider the analytic determination of the highly damped (asymptotic) quasi-normal modes of small Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black holes. We comment the result as compared to the recent numerical data of Konoplya and Zhidenko.
0309090v2
2004-02-11
Electronic contribution to the oscillations of a gravitational antenna
We carefully analyse the contribution to the oscillations of a metallic gravitational antenna due to the interaction between the electrons of the bar and the incoming gravitational wave. To this end, we first derive the total microscopic Hamiltonian of the wave-antenna system and then compute the contribution to the attenuation factor due to the electron-graviton interaction. As compared to the ordinary damping factor, which is due to the electron viscosity, this term turns out to be totally negligible. This result confirms that the only relevant mechanism for the interaction of a gravitational wave with a metallic antenna is its direct coupling with the bar normal modes.
0402048v1
2004-09-10
A Nonlinear Coupling Network to Simulate the Development of the r-mode Instablility in Neutron Stars I. Construction
R-modes of a rotating neutron star are unstable because of the emission of gravitational radiation. We explore the saturation amplitudes of these modes determined by nonlinear mode-mode coupling. Modelling the star as incompressible allows the analytic computation of the coupling coefficients. All couplings up to n=30 are obtained, and analytic values for the shear damping and mode normalization are presented. In a subsequent paper we perform numerical simulations of a large set of coupled modes.
0409048v1
2004-10-06
Quasinormal modes in time-dependent black hole background
We have studied the evolution of the massless scalar field propagating in time-dependent charged Vaidya black hole background. A generalized tortoise coordinate transformation were used to study the evolution of the massless scalar field. It is shown that, for the slowest damped quasinormal modes, the approximate formulae in stationary Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole turn out to be a reasonable prescription, showing that results from quasinormal mode analysis are rather robust.
0410025v2
2004-11-26
Gravitational wave interactions with magnetized plasmas
Gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through a uniformly magnetized plasma interact directly with the magnetic field and excite magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves with both electromagnetic and matter components. We study this process for arbitrary geometry in the MHD approximation and find that all three fundamental MHD modes -- slow and fast magnetosonic, and Alfven -- are excited depending on both the polarization of the GW and the orientation of the ambient magnetic field. The latter two modes can interact coherently with the GW resulting in damping of the GW and linear growth of the plasma waves.
0411128v1
2005-01-30
Quasinormal modes in Schwarschild black holes due to arbitrary spin fields
The Newman-Penrose formalism is used to deal with the massless scalar, neutrino, electromagnetic, gravitino and gravitational quasinormal modes (QNMs) in Schwarzschild black holes in a united form. The quasinormal mode frequencies evaluated by using the 3rd-order WKB potential approximation show that the boson perturbations and the fermion perturbations behave in a contrary way for the variation of the oscillation frequencies with spin, while this is no longer true for the damping's, which variate with $s$ in a same way both for boson and fermion perturbations.
0501098v2
2005-04-28
The ringing wormholes
We investigate the response of the traversable wormholes to the external perturbations through finding their characteristic frequencies and time-domain profiles. The considered solution describes traversable wormholes between the branes in the two brane Randall-Sundrum model and was previously found within Einstein gravity with a conformally coupled scalar field. The evolution of perturbations of a wormhole is similar to that of a black hole and represents damped oscillations (ringing) at intermediately late times, which are suppressed by power law tails (proportional to t^{-2} for monopole perturbations) at asymptotically late times.
0504139v1
2005-05-31
Quasinormal modes of Rarita-Schwinger field in Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetimes
The Newman-Penrose formalism is used to deal with the quasinormal modes(QNM's) of Rarita-Schwinger perturbations outside a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole. We obtain four kinds of possible expressions of effective potentials, which are proved to be of the same spectra of quasinormal mode frequencies. The quasinormal mode frequencies evaluated by the WKB potential approximation show that, similar to those for Dirac perturbations, the real parts of the frequencies increase with the charge $Q$ and decrease with the mode number $n$, while the dampings almost keep unchanged as the charge increases.
0505161v1
2005-11-16
Quasinormal modes of a black hole surrounded by quintessence
Using the third-order WKB approximation, we evaluate the quasinormal frequencies of massless scalar field perturbation around the black hole which is surrounded by the static and spherically symmetric quintessence. Our result shows that due to the presence of quintessence, the scalar field damps more rapidly. Moreover, we also note that the quintessential state parameter $\epsilon$ (the ratio of pressure $p_q$ to the energy density $\rho_q$) play an important role for the quasinormal frequencies. As the state parameter $\epsilon$ increases the real part increases and the absolute value of the imaginary part decreases. This means that the scalar field decays more slowly in the larger $\epsilon$ quintessence case.
0511085v1
2006-12-01
Quasinormal modes of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by free static spherically symmetric quintessence: Electromagnetic perturbations
In this paper, we evaluated the quasinormal modes of electromagnetic perturbation in a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by the static spherically symmetric quintessence by using the third-order WKB approximation when the quintessential state parameter $ w_{q}$ in the range of $-1/3<w_{q}<0$. Due to the presence of quintessence, Maxwell field damps more slowly. And when at $-1<w_{q}<-1/3$, it is similar to the black hole solution in the ds/Ads spacetime. The appropriate boundary conditions need to be modified.
0612010v2
1998-10-09
A Technique of Direct Tension Measurement of a Strung Fine Wire
We present a new technique of direct measurement of wire tensions in wire chambers. A specially designed circuit plucks the wire using the Lorentz force and measures the frequency of damped transverse oscillations of the wire. The technique avoids the usual time-consuming necessity of tuning circuit parameter to a resonance. It allows a fast and convenient determination of tensions and is straightforward to implement.
9810023v1
1999-11-24
Chiral Gauge Theory on Lattice with Domain Wall Fermions
We investigate a U(1) lattice chiral gauge theory with domain wall fermions and compact gauge fixing. In the reduced model limit, our perturbative and numerical investigations show that there exist no extra mirror chiral modes. The longitudinal gauge degrees of freedom have no effect on the free domain wall fermion spectrum consisting of opposite chiral modes at the domain wall and at the anti-domain wall which have an exponentially damped overlap.
9911029v3
2004-03-22
What can Lattice QCD theorists learn from NMR spectroscopists?
Euclidean-time hadron correlation functions computed in Lattice QCD (LQCD) are modeled by a sum of decaying exponentials, reminiscent of the exponentially damped sinusoid models of free induction decay (FID) in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. We present our initial progress in studying how data modeling techniques commonly used in NMR perform when applied to LQCD data.
0403023v2
1992-04-10
Resummation in a Hot Scalar Field Theory
A resummed perturbative expansion is used to obtain the self-energy in the high-temperature \(g^2\phi^4\) field theory model up to order $g^4$. From this the zero momentum pole of the effective propagator is evaluated to determine the induced thermal mass and damping rate for the bosons in the plasma to order $g^3$. The calculations are performed in the imaginary time formalism and a simple diagrammatic analysis is used to identify the relevant diagrams at each order. Results are compared with similar real-time calculations found in the literature.
9204216v1
1993-05-11
High Temperature Response Functions and the Non-Abelian Kubo Formula
We describe the relationship between time-ordered and retarded response functions in a plasma. We obtain an expression, including the proper $i\epsilon$-prescription, for the induced current due to hard thermal loops in a non-Abelian theory, thus giving the non-Abelian generalization of the Kubo formula. The result is closely related to the eikonal for a Chern-Simons theory and is relevant for a gauge-invariant description of Landau damping in the quark-gluon plasma at high temperature.
9305241v1
1993-06-09
Is the scalar meson seen in CELLO data on $γγ\rightarrowπ^+π^-$ ?
We analyze the CELLO angular distributions $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\pi^+\pi^-$ with the unitary model \cite{KS-86} for helicity 2 amplitude. In contrast to previous analysis \cite{CELLO} we do not see any QED damping. The obtained S--wave does not contradict to low--energy theorem and demonstrates more clealy the resonance--like behaviour near 1.3 Gev.
9306249v1
1993-07-27
Dynamical Growth Rate of a Diffuse Interface in First Order Phase Transitions
We compute the dynamical prefactor in the nucleation rate of bubbles or droplets in first order phase transitions for the case where both viscous damping and thermal dissipation are significant. This result, which generalizes previous work on nucleation, may be applied to study the growth of bubbles or droplets in condensed matter systems as well as in heavy ion collisions and in the expansion of the early universe.
9307348v1
1993-11-23
Perturbative Hot Gauge Theories - Recent Results
Current results in high temperature gauge theories obtained in the context of the perturbative method of resumming hard thermal loops are reviewed. Beyond leading order properties of the gluon excitation, and the recent (controversial) calculations of the damping rates are discussed. QCD predictions on plasma signatures are exemplified by the thermal production rates of energetic as well as soft photons. [Talk given at the 3rd Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and their Applications, August 15--27, 1993, Banff, Alberta, Canada]
9311343v1
1994-06-10
QCD Transport Theory
Because of the long range of the gauge interactions, the collective behaviour of quarks and gluons plays a decisive role in the transport processes. Collective effects, like Debye screening and Landau damping, remove the unphysical infrared divergences of the transport cross-sections and provide finite relaxation rates. I review here a theory of the plasma collective excitations that has been recently developed. It is based on kinetic equations derived from the general QCD Dyson-Schwinger equations, in the weak coupling limit. I present new, truly non-abelian, collective excitations, which correspond to nonlinear color oscillations of the QCD plasma.
9406277v1
1994-08-08
Gluon Decay as a Mechanism for Strangeness Production in a Quark-Gluon Plasma
A calculation of thermal gluon decay shows that this process contributes significantly to strangeness production in a quark-gluon plasma. Our analysis does not support recent claims that this is the dominant process. In our calculations we take into account the resummed form of the transverse and longitudinal parts of the gluon propagator following the Braaten-Pisarski method. Our results are subject to the uncertainty concerning the estimate of the damping rate entering the effective gluon propagator.
9408249v1
1994-12-02
High Harmonic Configurations of Cosmic Strings: An Analysis of Self-Intersections
A general formulation for describing odd-harmonic cosmic strings is developed and used to determine the self-intersection properties of high-harmonic loops. This is important because loop formation mechanisms produce high-harmonic components (kinks) which can only be eliminated very slowly by gravitational radiation, damping by the dense surrounding plasma in the era of string formation, or by the expansion of the Universe. For the class of loops examined it has been found that in the high-harmonic limit, essentially all cosmic loops self-intersect.
9412216v2
1995-03-19
SELF-ENERGY PECULIARITIES OF THE HOT GAUGE THEORY AFTER SYMMETRY BREAKING
A tensor representation of the gluon propagator is found within covariant gauges for a non-Abelian theory after symmetry breaking due to $<A_0>\ne 0$ and the exact equations which determine the dispersion laws of plasma excitations are explicitly obtained. In the high temperature region and fixing the Feynman gauge we solved these equations and found the damping of the plasma oscillations and the shifting of their frequency. The phase transition of a gauge symmetry restoration is estimated to be $\alpha_c(T) \approx{4/3}$.
9503379v1
1995-03-21
EFFECTS OF SHADOWING IN DOUBLE POMERON EXCHANGE PROCESSES
The effects of shadowing in double Pomeron exchange processes are investigated within an eikonal approach with a Gaussian input. Damping factors due to screening are calculated for this process and compared with the factors obtained for total, elastic and single diffraction cross sections. Our main conclusion is that counting rate calculations, of various double Pomeron exchange processes (without screening corrections) such as heavy quark and Higgs production are reduced by a factor of 5 in the LHC energy range, when screening corrections are applied.
9503394v1
1996-03-09
Nucleons at Finite Temperature
The nucleon mass shift is calculated using chiral counting arguments and a virial expansion, without and with the $\Delta$. At all temperatures, the mass shift and damping rate are dominated by the $\Delta$. Our results are compared with the empirical analysis of Leutwyler and Smilga, as well as results from heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory in the large $N_{c}$ (number of color) limit. We show that unitarity implies that the concepts of thermal shifts are process dependent.
9603257v1
1996-03-25
Fermion Scattering at a Phase Wave
We study fermion reflection at a phase wave which is formed during a bubble collision in a first order phase transition. We calculate the reflection and the transmission coefficients by solving the Dirac equation with the phase wave background. Using the results we analyze the damping and the velocity of the wave.
9603401v2
1996-08-23
The effect of Silk damping on primordial magnetic fields
We study the effects of plasma viscosity on the dynamics of primordial magnetic fields by simulating magnetohydrodynamics in the early universe by appropriate non-linear cascade models. We find numerically that even in the presence of large kinetic viscosity, magnetic energy is transferred to large length scales. There are indications, however, that the inverse cascade stops at a given time which depends on the magnitude of viscosity. For realistic viscosities we do not find equipartition between magnetic and kinetic energies.
9608422v1
1997-02-04
Chiral Dynamics with Quark Degrees of Freedom
Possibility to detect DCC fluctuations is discussed. It is shown that interactions with quark background and dissipative effects due to interactions in the chiral field may result in damping of fluctuations. Since the magnitude of fluctuations depends strongly on the initial state and speed of chiral phase transition accurate evaluation of all modifying processes is required to predict observability of DCCs.
9702246v1
1998-08-17
Hot QED beyond ladder graphs
At finite temperature a breakdown of the hard thermal loop expansion arises whenever external momenta are light-like or tend to very soft scales. A resummation of ladder graphs is important in these cases where the effects of infrared or light-cone singularities are enhanced. We show that in hot QED another class of diagrams is also relevant at leading order due to long range magnetic interactions and therefore recent studies about ladder expansions need to be corrected. A general cancellation of the hard modes damping effects still occurs near the light-cone or in the infrared region. The validity of an improved version of the hard thermal loop resummation scheme is discussed.
9808344v1
1998-09-01
Dynamical screening away from equilibrium: hard photon production and collisional energy loss
We investigate the production rate for hard real photons and the collisional energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma away from chemical equilibrium. Applying the Hard-Thermal-Loop resummation scheme away from equilibrium, we can show that Landau damping provides dynamical screening for both fermion and boson exchange present in the two quantities.
9809214v2
1998-09-24
Infrared and light-cone limit in hot QED
In hot gauge theories a breakdown of the hard thermal loop expansion occurs for light-like external momenta or in the infrared region. In QED where a resummation of ladder diagrams is usually advocated, it is shown that long range magnetic interations involve a broader set of graphs. The consequence is a generalized compensation of the hard modes damping terms at leading order in the infrared limit and near the light-cone. The relevance of the so-called improved hard thermal loop resummation scheme is discussed.
9809516v2
1999-02-11
Hard-thermal-loop Resummation of the Free Energy of a Hot Gluon Plasma
We calculate the free energy of a hot gluon plasma to leading order in hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory. Effects associated with screening, gluon quasiparticles, and Landau damping are resummed to all orders. The ultraviolet divergences generated by the hard-thermal-loop propagator corrections can be cancelled by a temperature-independent counterterm. The deviation of the hard-thermal-loop free energy from lattice QCD results for T > 2 T_c has the correct sign and roughly the correct magnitude to be accounted for by next-to-leading order corrections.
9902327v2
1999-07-13
Inplication of percolation of colour strings on multiplicities, correlations and the transverse momentum
In the colour string model the impact of string percolation on multiplicities, their long-range correlations and average transverse momentum is studied. The multiplicities are shown to be damped by a simple factor which follows from the percolation theory. A clear signature of the phase transition is found to be a behaviour of the correlations for intensive observables, such as average transverse momentum, which can be detected in the high-energy heavy ion collisions.
9907332v1
1999-08-11
Hard-thermal-loop Resummation of the Free Energy of a Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma
The quark contribution to the free energy of a hot quark-gluon plasma is calculated to leading order in hard-thermal-loop (HTL) perturbation theory. This method selectively resums higher order corrections associated with plasma effects, such as screening, quasiparticles, and Landau damping. Comparing to the weak-coupling expansion of QCD, the error in the one-loop HTL free energy is of order alpha_s, but the large alpha_s^(3/2) correction from QCD plasma effects is included exactly.
9908323v2
1999-08-16
Hard-thermal-loop resummed pressure of a degenerate quark-gluon plasma
We compute the pressure of a finite density quark-gluon plasma at zero temperature to leading order in hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory, which includes the fermionic excitations and Landau damping. The result is compared with the weak-coupling expansion for finite positive chemical potential $\mu$ through order $\alpha_s^2$ and with a quasiparticle model with a mass depending on $\mu$.
9908372v3
1999-09-22
Dynamical Manifestation of the Goldstone Phenomenon at 1-loop
We have calculated the damping rate $\Gamma (|{\bf k}|)$ for classical on-shell Goldstone modes of the O(2) symmetric scalar fields propagating in a thermal medium of the broken symmetry phase taking into account the effect of the explicit symmetry breaking. The result of the one-loop analysis can be expanded around $\Gamma (0)$, which depends non-analytically on the parameter of the explicit symmetry breaking, h. $\Gamma (0)$ vanishes when $h\to 0$, demonstrating in this way the absence of the restoring force, when the equilibrium direction of the symmetry breaking is modulated homogeneously.
9909474v1
1999-12-29
Recent Development on Collective Neutrino Interactions
Quantum Field Theory is applied to study an electron plasma under an intense neutrino flux. The dispersion relation of the longitudinal waves is derived and the damping rate is calculated. It is shown that in the case of Supernova emission the neutrinos are not collimated enough to cause plasma instabilities associated to a strong neutrino resonance effect.
9912533v1
2000-02-11
Dispersion Laws for Goldstone Bosons in a Color Superconductor
The effective action for Goldstone bosons in the color-flavor locking phase of dense QCD is analyzed. Interaction terms and higher derivatives in the effective action appear to be controlled by different scales. At energies of order of the superconducting gap, the derivative expansion breaks down, while interactions still remain suppressed. The effective action valid at energies and momenta comparable to the gap is derived. Dispersion laws following from this action are such that the energy of Goldstone bosons is always smaller than the gap in the quasiparticle spectrum, and Goldstone bosons always propagate without damping.
0002123v2
2000-10-16
New Developments and Applications of Thermal Field Theory
The lecture provides an introduction to thermal field theory and its applications to the physics of the quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. In particular the Hard Thermal Loop resummation technique, providing a consistent perturbative description of relativistic, high-temperature plasmas is introduced. Using this method interesting quantities of the quark-gluon plasma (damping rates, energy loss, photon and dilepton production) are discussed. Furthermore recent developments on non-equilibrium field theory, which are relevant for high-energy heavy ion physics, are presented.
0010164v1
2000-12-20
Equivalence between Gaussian averaged neutrino oscillations and neutrino decoherence
In this paper, we show that a Gaussian averaged neutrino oscillation model is equivalent to a neutrino decoherence model. Without loss of generality, the analysis is performed with two neutrino flavors. We also estimate the damping (or decoherence) parameter for atmospheric neutrinos and compare it to earlier obtained results.
0012272v2
2001-01-05
Instabilities in neutrino-plasma density waves
One examines the interaction and possible resonances between supernova neutrinos and electron plasma waves. The neutrino phase space distribution and its boundary regions are analyzed in detail. It is shown that the boundary regions are too wide to produce non-linear resonant effects. The growth or damping rates induced by neutrinos are always proportional to the neutrino flux and $G_{{\rm F}}^{2}$.
0101054v2
2001-01-28
High-temperature, classical, real-time dynamics of non-abelian gauge theories as seen by a computer
We test at the electroweak scale the recently proposed elaborate theoretical scenario for real-time dynamics of non-abelian gauge theories at high temperature. We see no sign of the predicted behavior. This indicates that perturbative concepts like color conductivity and Landau damping might be irrelevant at temperatures corresponding to the electroweak scale.
0101309v1
2001-12-03
Crystalline Color Superconductivity in Dense Matter
In this talk I discuss a recently proposed color superconducting phase of asymmetric quark matter where the up and down quark have different chemical potential, being in chemical equilibrium with electrons. Using Schwinger-Dyson equations derived from an effective theory of low-energy quasiparticles, a critical coupling for LOFF phase is estimated for both the case of an effective four Fermi interaction and Landau-damped one gluon exchange.
0112028v1
2001-12-10
Non-Abelian Medium Effects in Quark-Gluon Plasma
Based on the kinetic theory, the non-Abelian medium property of hot Quark-Gluon Plasma is investigated. The nonlinearity of the plasma comes from two aspects: The nonlinear wave-wave interaction and self-interaction of color field. The non-Abelian color permittivity is obtained by expanding the kinetic equations to third order. As an application, the nonlinear Landau damping rate and the nonlinear eigenfrequency shift are calculated in the longwave length limit.
0112128v1
2004-03-20
Hard gluon damping in hot QCD
The gluon collisional width in hot QCD plasmas is discussed with emphasis on temperatures near $T_c$, where the coupling is large. Considering its effect on the entropy, which is known from lattice calculations, it is argued that the width, which in the perturbative limit is given by $\gamma \sim g^2 \ln(1/g) T$, should be sizeable at intermediate temperatures but has to be small close to $T_c$. Implications of these results for several phenomenologically relevant quantities, such as the energy loss of hard jets, are pointed out.
0403225v1
2004-08-28
Thermal Effects on Pure and Hybrid Inflation
This paper discusses models of inflation based on global supersymmetry. It is shown that there are parameter ranges, consisent with observational constraints, for which warm inflation occurs and supergravity effects can be neglected. There is no need for any fine tuning of parameters. The thermal corrections to the inflaton potential are calculated and found to be unimportant.
0408323v3
2004-09-23
Hard parton damping in hot QCD
The gluon and quark collisional widths in hot QCD plasmas are discussed with emphasis on temperatures near Tc, where the coupling is large. Considering the effect on the entropy, which is known from lattice calculations, it is argued that the width of the partons, which in the perturbative limit is given by gamma ~ g^2 ln(1/g) T, should be sizeable at intermediate temperatures but has to be small close to Tc. This behavior implies a substantial reduction of the radiative energy loss of jets near Tc.
0409270v1
2004-12-20
Role of the gluons in the color screening in a QCD plasma
The color screening in a QCD plasma, that was studied in a formulation making evident similarities and differences with the electric case, is continued by taking into account the contributions of real gluons. The results, which include a numerical analysis not previously performed, show a damping of the correlation function which, if not exponential, does not differ very much from that form. The role of the temperature, which affect both the population and the dynamics of the quark-gluon system, is found to be relevant.
0412287v1
2005-07-13
Feedback effects on the pairing interaction in color superconductors near the transition temperature
We examine the role that the gap dependence of the pairing interaction plays in the gap equation for a weakly coupled uniform superfluid of three-flavor massless quarks near the transition temperature T_c. We find that the feedback effects on Landau-damped transverse gluons mediating the pairing interaction alter the gap magnitude in a way dependent on the color structure of the gap. We estimate corrections by these effects to the parameters characterizing the fourth order terms in the Ginzburg-Landau free energy and ensure the stability of a color-flavor locked state near T_c.
0507161v1
2005-08-31
Study of the gluon propagator in the large-N_f limit at finite temperature and chemical potential for weak and strong couplings
At finite temperature and chemical potential, the leading-order (hard-thermal-loop) contributions to the gauge-boson propagator lead to momentum-dependent thermal masses for propagating quasiparticles as well as dynamical screening and Landau damping effects. We compare the hard-thermal-loop propagator with the complete large-N_f gluon propagator, for which the usually subleading contributions, such as a finite width of quasiparticles, can be studied at nonperturbatively large effective coupling. We also study quantitatively the effect of Friedel oscillations in low-temperature electrostatic screening.
0508317v1
2006-02-24
Shear Viscosity of Hot QED at Finite Density from Kubo Formula
Within the framework of finite temperature field theory this paper discusses the shear viscosity of hot QED plasma through Kubo formula at one-loop skeleton diagram level with a finite chemical potential. The effective widths(damping rates) are introduced to regulate the pinch singularities. The finite chemical potential, which enhances the contributions to the shear viscosity from the electrons while suppresses those from the photons, finally gives a positive contribution compared to the pure temperature environment. The result agrees with that from the kinetics theory qualitatively.
0602221v1
2006-10-27
Chiral transition and mesonic excitations for quarks with thermal masses
We study the effect of a thermal quark mass, m_T, on the chiral phase transition and mesonic excitations in the light quark sector at finite temperature in a simple chirally-symmetric model. We show that while nonzero m_T lowers the chiral condensate, the chiral transition remains of second order. It is argued that the mesonic excitations have large decay rate at energies below 2m_T, owing to the Landau damping of the quarks and the van Hove singularities of the collective modes.
0610374v3
1993-06-01
Transport Properties of Solitons
We calculate in this article the transport coefficients which characterize the dynamics of solitons in quantum field theory using the methods of dissipative quantum systems. We show how the damping and diffusion coefficients of soliton-like excitations can be calculated using the integral functional formalism. The model obtained in this article has new features which cannot be obtained in the standard models of dissipation in quantum mechanics.
9306007v1
1994-03-23
Hard Thermal Loops, Chern-Simons Theory and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
The generating functional for hard thermal loops in QCD is important in setting up a resummed perturbation theory. I review how this functional is related to the eikonal for a Chern-Simons theory, and using an auxiliary field, to the gauged WZNW-action. The induced current due to hard thermal loops, properly incorporating damping effects, is also briefly discussed. (Invited talk at the Third Worshop on Thermal Field Theories, Banff, Canada, August, 1993.)
9403145v1
1994-04-21
Wigner distribution function and entropy of the damped harmonic oscillator within the theory of open quantum systems
The harmonic oscillator with dissipation is studied within the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. By using the Wang-Uhlenbeck method, the Fokker-Planck equation, obtained from the master equation for the density operator, is solved for the Wigner distribution function, subject to either the Gaussian type or the $\delta$-function type of initial conditions. The obtained Wigner functions are two-dimensional Gaussians with different widths. Then a closed expression for the density operator is extracted. The entropy of the system is subsequently calculated and its temporal behaviour shows that this quantity relaxes to its equilibrium value.
9404129v1
1995-02-07
QUANTUM DISSIPATION AND QUANTUM NOISE
We derive the exact action for a damped mechanical system ( and the special case of the linear oscillator) from the path integral formulation of the quantum Brownian motion problem developed by Schwinger and by Feynman and Vernon. The doubling of the phase-space degrees of freedom for dissipative systems and thermal field theories is discussed and the initial values of the doubled variables are related to quantum noise effects.
9502044v1
1995-03-21
QUANTUM DISSIPATION AND QUANTUM GROUPS
We discuss the r\^ole of quantum deformation of Weyl-Heisenberg algebra in dissipative systems and finite temperature systems. We express the time evolution generator of the damped harmonic oscillator and the generator of thermal Bogolubov transformations in terms of operators of the quantum Weyl-Heisenberg algebra. The quantum parameter acts as a label for the unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations in which the space of the states splits in the infinite volume limit.
9503136v1
1996-08-27
Thermalization and Lyapunov Exponents in the Yang-Mills-Higgs Theory
We investigate thermalization processes occurring at different time scales in the Yang-Mills-Higgs system at high temperatures. We determine the largest Lyapunov exponent associated with the gauge fields and verify its relation to the perturbatively calculated damping rate of a static gauge boson.
9608181v1
1998-12-22
String Propagation in Bianchi Type I models: Dynamical anisotropy Damping and Consequences
A generic ansatz is introduced which provides families of exact solutions to the equations of motion and constraints for null-strings in Bianchi type I cosmological models. This is achieved irrespective of the form of the metric. Within classes of dilaton cosmologies a backreaction mapping relation is established where the null string leads to more or less anisotropic members of the family. The equations of motion and constraints for the generic model are casted in their first order form and integrated both analytically and numerically.
9812198v1
2000-08-10
Perturbative Noncommutative Quantum Gravity
We study perturbative noncommutative quantum gravity by expanding the gravitational field about a fixed classical background. A calculation of the one loop gravitational self-energy graph reveals that only the non-planar graviton loops are damped by oscillating internal momentum dependent factors. The noncommutative quantum gravity perturbation theory is not renormalizable beyond one loop for matter-free gravity and all loops for matter interactions. Comments are made about the nonlocal gravitational interactions produced by the noncommutative spacetime geometry.
0008089v2
2000-10-03
Damped harmonic oscillators in the holomorphic representation
Quantum dynamical semigroups are applied to the study of the time evolution of harmonic oscillators, both bosonic and fermionic. Explicit expressions for the density matrices describing the states of these systems are derived using the holomorphic representation. Bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom are then put together to form a supersymmetric oscillator; the conditions that assure supersymmetry invariance of the corresponding dynamical equations are explicitly derived.
0010013v1
2000-11-28
Non-Anticommutative Quantum Gravity
A calculation of the one loop gravitational self-energy graph in non-anticommutative quantum gravity reveals that graviton loops are damped by internal momentum dependent factors in the modified propagator and the vertex functions. The non-anticommutative quantum gravity perturbation theory is finite for matter-free gravity and for matter interactions.
0011259v2
2002-10-14
Time-reversal violation as loop-antiloop symmetry breaking: the Bessel equation, group contraction and dissipation
We show that the Bessel equation can be cast, by means of suitable transformations, into a system of two damped/amplified parametric oscillator equations. The relation with the group contraction mechanism is analyzed and the breakdown of loop-antiloop symmetry due to group contraction manifests itself as violation of time-reversal symmetry. A preliminary discussion of the relation between some infinite dimensional loop-algebras, such as the Virasoro-like algebra, and the Euclidean algebras e(2) and e(3) is also presented.
0210129v1
2002-11-09
One-Loop Effective Action on Rotational Spacetime: Zeta-Function Regularization and Schwinger Perturbative Expansion
The zeta-function regularization method is used to evaluate the renormalized effective action for massless conformally coupling scalar field propagating in a closed Friedman spacetime perturbed by a small rotation. To the second order of the rotational parameter in the model spacetime the analytic form of the effective action is obtained with the help of the Schwinger perturbation formula. After investigating the time evolution of the rotational parameter we find that the quantum field effect can produce an effect which damps the cosmological rotational in the early universe.
0211079v1
2003-06-01
Asymptotic Quasinormal Frequencies of d-dimensional Schwarzschild Black Holes
We determine the quasinormal frequencies for all gravitational perturbations of the d-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, in the infinite damping limit. Using the potentials for gravitational perturbations derived recently by Ishibashi and Kodama, we show that in all cases the asymptotic real part of the frequency is proportional to the Hawking temperature with a coefficient of log 3. Via the correspondence principle, this leads directly to an equally spaced entropy spectrum. We comment on the possible implications for the spacing of eigenvalues of the Virasoro generator in the associated near-horizon conformal algebra.
0306004v2
2005-02-15
Linear Cosmological Perturbations in D-brane Gases
We consider linear cosmological perturbations on the background of a D-brane gas in which the compact dimensions and the dilaton are stabilized. We focus on long wavelength fluctuations and find that there are no instabilities. In particular, the perturbation of the internal space performs damped oscillations and decays in time. Therefore, the stabilization mechanism based on D-brane gases in string theory remains valid in the presence of linearized inhomogeneities.
0502133v2
2006-10-09
Links. Relating different physical systems through the common QFT algebraic structure
In this report I review some aspects of the algebraic structure of QFT related with the doubling of the degrees of freedom of the system under study. I show how such a doubling is related to the characterizing feature of QFT consisting in the existence of infinitely many unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical (anti-)commutation relations and how this is described by the q-deformed Hopf algebra. I consider several examples, such as the damped harmonic oscillator, the quantum Brownian motion, thermal field theories, squeezed states, classical-to-quantum relation, and show the analogies, or links, among them arising from the common algebraic structure of the q-deformed Hopf algebra.
0610094v1
2006-11-21
Gravitational spectrum of black holes in the Einstein-Aether theory
Evolution of gravitational perturbations, both in time and frequency domains, is considered for a spherically symmetric black hole in the non-reduced Einstein-Aether theory. It is shown that real oscillation frequency and damping rate are larger for the Einstein-Aether black hole than for the Schwarzschild black hole. This may provide an opportunity to observe aether in the forthcoming experiments with new generation of gravitational antennas.
0611226v2
1996-11-27
Symmetry breaking perturbations and strange attractors
The asymmetrically forced, damped Duffing oscillator is introduced as a prototype model for analyzing the homoclinic tangle of symmetric dissipative systems with \textit{symmetry breaking} disturbances. Even a slight fixed asymmetry in the perturbation may cause a substantial change in the asymptotic behavior of the system, e.g. transitions from two sided to one sided strange attractors as the other parameters are varied. Moreover, slight asymmetries may cause substantial asymmetries in the relative size of the basins of attraction of the unforced nearly symmetric attracting regions. These changes seems to be associated with homoclinic bifurcations. Numerical evidence indicates that \textit{strange attractors} appear near curves corresponding to specific secondary homoclinic bifurcations. These curves are found using analytical perturbational tools.
9611217v1
2000-04-10
Penalty approximation for non smooth constraints in vibroimpact
We examine the penalty approximation of the free motion of a material point in an angular domain; we choose an over-damped penalty, and we prove that if the first impact point is not at the vertex, then, the limit of the approximation exists and is described by Moreau's rule for anelastic impacts. The proofs rely on validated asymptotics and use some classical tools in the theory of dynamical systems.
0004054v1
2004-12-22
Adaptation and nonlinear parametrization: nonlinear dynamics prospective
We consider adaptive control problem in presence of nonlinear parametrization of uncertainties in the model. It is shown that despite traditional approaches require for domination in the control loop during adaptation, it is not often necessary to use such energy inefficient compensators it in wide range of applications. In particular, we show that recently introduced adaptive control algorithms in finite form which are applicable to monotonic parameterized systems can be extended to general smooth non-monotonic parametrization. These schemes do not require any damping or domination in control inputs.
0412444v1
2006-05-31
Subgeometric rates of convergence of f-ergodic strong Markov processes
We provide a condition for f-ergodicity of strong Markov processes at a subgeometric rate. This condition is couched in terms of a supermartingale property for a functional of the Markov process. Equivalent formulations in terms of a drift inequality on the extended generator and on the resolvent kernel are given. Results related to (f,r)-regularity and to moderate deviation principle for integral (bounded) functional are also derived. Applications to specific processes are considered, including elliptic stochastic differential equation, Langevin diffusions, hypoelliptic stochastic damping Hamiltonian system and storage models.
0605791v1
2007-02-13
Integral Equations in the Theory of Levy Processes
In this article we consider the Levy processes and the corresponding semigroup. We represent the generator of this semigroup in a convolution form. Using the obtained convolution form and the theory of integral equations we investigate the properties of a wide class of Levy processes (potential, quasi-potential, the probability of the Levy process remaining within the given domain, long time behavior, stable processes). We analyze in detail a number of concrete examples of the Levy processes (stable processes, the variance damped Levy processes, the variance gamma processes, the normal Gaussian process, the Meixner process, the compound Poisson process).
0702378v1
2000-01-03
Slow Motion of Charges Interacting Through the Maxwell Field
We study the Abraham model for $N$ charges interacting with the Maxwell field. On the scale of the charge diameter, $R_{\phi}$, the charges are a distance $\eps^{-1}R_{\phi}$ apart and have a velocity $\sqrt{\eps} c$ with $\eps$ a small dimensionless parameter. We follow the motion of the charges over times of the order $\eps^{-3/2}R_{\phi}/c$ and prove that on this time scale their motion is well approximated by the Darwin Lagrangian. The mass is renormalized. The interaction is dominated by the instantaneous Coulomb forces, which are of the order $\eps^{2}$. The magnetic fields and first order retardation generate the Darwin correction of the order $\eps^{3}$. Radiation damping would be of the order $\eps^{7/2}$.
0001002v1
2001-02-07
Post-Coulombian Dynamics at Order 1.5
We study the dynamics of N charges interacting with the Maxwell field. If their initial velocities are small compared to the velocity of light, c, then in lowest order their motion is governed by the static Coulomb Lagrangian. We investigate higher order corrections with an explicit control on the error terms. The Darwin correction, order (v/c)^2, has been proved previously. In this contribution we obtain the dissipative corrections due to radiation damping, which are of order (v/c)^3 relative to the Coulomb dynamics. If all particles have the same charge-to-mass ratio, the dissipation would vanish at that order.
0102004v1
2000-02-23
Dynamics of Kinks in One- and Two- Dimensional Hyperbolic Models with Quasi-Discrete Nonlinearities
We study the evolution of fronts in the Klein-Gordon equation when the nonlinear term is non-homogeneous. Extending previous works on homogeneous nonlinear terms, we describe the derivation of an equation governing the front motion, which is strongly nonlinear, and, for the two-dimensional case, generalizes the damped Born-Infeld equation. We study the motion of one- and two-dimensional fronts, finding that the dynamics is richer than in the homogeneous reaction term case.
0002043v1
2000-04-20
Spontaneous pattern formation in driven nonlinear lattice
We demonstrate the spontaneous formation of spatial patterns in a damped, ac-driven cubic Klein-Gordon lattice. These patterns are composed of arrays of intrinsic localized modes characteristic for nonlinear lattices. We analyze the modulation instability leading to this spontaneous pattern formation. Our calculation of the modulational instability is applicable in one and two-dimensional lattices, however in the analyses of the emerging patterns we concentrate particularly on the two-dimensional case.
0004035v1
2000-08-18
Correlations and fluctuations of matrix elements and cross sections
The fluctuations and correlations of matrix elements of cross sections are investigated in open systems that are chaotic in the classical limit. The form of the correlation functions is discussed within a statistical analysis and tested in calculations for a damped quantum kicked rotator. We briefly comment on the modifications expected for systems with slowly decaying correlations, a typical feature in mixed phase spaces.
0008023v1
2001-04-26
Statistical Theory for Incoherent Light Propagation in Nonlinear Media
A novel statistical approach based on the Wigner transform is proposed for the description of partially incoherent optical wave dynamics in nonlinear media. An evolution equation for the Wigner transform is derived from a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with arbitrary nonlinearity. It is shown that random phase fluctuations of an incoherent plane wave lead to a Landau-like damping effect, which can stabilize the modulational instability. In the limit of the geometrical optics approximation, incoherent, localized, and stationary wave-fields are shown to exist for a wide class of nonlinear media.
0104063v2
2001-06-13
Power fluctuations in a driven damped chaotic pendulum
In this paper we investigate the power fluctuations in a driven, dampted pendulum. When the motion of the pendulum is chaotic, the average power supplied by the driving force is equal to the average dissipated power only for an infinite long time period. We measure the fluctuations of the supplied power during a time equal to the period of the driving force. Negative power fluctuations occur and we estimate their probability. In a chaotic state the histogram of the power distribution is broad and continuous although bounded. For a value of the power not too close to the edge of the distribution the Fluctuation Theorem of Gallavotti and Cohen is approximately satisfied.
0106016v1
2001-07-06
Soliton ratchets
The mechanism underlying the soliton ratchet, both in absence and in presence of noise, is investigated. We show the existence of an asymmetric internal mode on the soliton profile which couples, trough the damping in the system, to the soliton translational mode. Effective soliton transport is achieved when the internal mode and the external force are phase locked. We use as working model a generalized double sine-Gordon equation. The phenomenon is expected to be valid for generic soliton systems.
0107011v1
2001-07-18
Effects of Transport Memory and Nonlinear Damping in a Generalized Fisher's Equation
Memory effects in transport require, for their incorporation into reaction diffusion investigations, a generalization of traditional equations. The well-known Fisher's equation, which combines diffusion with a logistic nonlinearity, is generalized to include memory effects and traveling wave solutions of the equation are found. Comparison is made with alternate generalization procedures.
0107043v1
2002-03-05
Broken symmetries and pattern formation in two-frequency forced Faraday waves
We exploit the presence of approximate (broken) symmetries to obtain general scaling laws governing the process of pattern formation in weakly damped Faraday waves. Specifically, we consider a two-frequency forcing function and trace the effects of time translation, time reversal and Hamiltonian structure for three illustrative examples: hexagons, two-mode superlattices, and two-mode rhomboids. By means of explicit parameter symmetries, we show how the size of various three-wave resonant interactions depends on the frequency ratio m:n and on the relative temporal phase of the two driving terms. These symmetry-based predictions are verified for numerically calculated coefficients, and help explain the results of recent experiments.
0203004v1
2002-03-09
One-fluid description of turbulently flowing suspension
We suggested a one-fluid model of a turbulent dilute suspension which accounts for the ``two-way'' fluid-particle interactions by $k$-dependent effective density of suspension and additional damping term in the Navier-Stokes equation. We presented analytical description of the particle modification of turbulence including scale invariant suppression of a small $k$ part of turbulent spectrum (independent of the particle response time) and possible enhancemenent of large $k$ region [up to the factor $(1+\phi)^{2/3}$]. Our results are in agreement with qualitative picture of isotropic homogeneous turbulence of dilute suspensions previously observed in laboratory and numerical experiments.
0203016v1
2002-04-11
Lorenz deterministic diffusion
The Lorenz 1963 dynamical system is known to reduce in the steady state to a one-dimensional motion of a classical particle subjected to viscous damping in a past history-dependent potential field. If the potential field is substituted by a periodic function of the position, the resulting system shows a rich dynamics where (standard) diffusive behaviours, ballistc motions and trapping take place by varying the model control parameters. This system permits to highlight the intimate relation between chaos and long-time deterministic diffusion.
0204020v1
2002-12-30
Parametrically Driven Dark Solitons
We show that unlike the bright solitons, the parametrically driven kinks are immune from instabilities for all dampings and forcing amplitudes; they can also form stable bound states. In the undamped case, the two types of stable kinks and their complexes can travel with nonzero velocities.
0212052v1
2003-03-31
Anholonomy and Geometrical Localization in Dynamical Systems
We characterize the geometrical and topological aspects of a dynamical system by associating a geometric phase with a phase space trajectory. Using the example of a nonlinear driven damped oscillator, we show that this phase is resilient to fluctuations, responds to all bifurcations in the system, and also finds new geometric transitions. Enriching the phase space description is a novel phenomenon of ``geometrical localization'' which manifests itself as a significant deviation from planar dynamics over a short time interval.
0303071v1
2003-08-05
Variational method for finding periodic orbits in a general flow
A variational principle for determining unstable periodic orbits of flows as well as unstable spatio-temporally periodic solutions of extended systems is proposed and implemented. An initial loop approximating a periodic solution is evolved in the space of loops toward a true periodic solution by a minimization of local errors along the loop. The ``\descent'' partial differential equation that governs this evolution is an infinitesimal step version of the damped Newton-Raphson iteration. The feasibility of the method is demonstrated by its application to the H\'enon-Heiles system, the circular restricted three-body problem, and the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky system in a weakly turbulent regime.
0308008v1
2003-09-08
Gibbs attractor: a chaotic nearly Hamiltonian system, driven by external harmonic force
A chaotic autonomous Hamiltonian systems, perturbed by small damping and small external force, harmonically dependent on time, can acquire a strange attractor with properties similar to that of the canonical distribution - the Gibbs attractor. The evolution of the energy in such systems can be described as the energy diffusion. For the nonlinear Pullen - Edmonds oscillator with two degrees of freedom the properties of the Gibbs attractor and their dependence on parameters of the perturbation are studied both analytically and numerically.
0309026v1