The magnetic phase transition in amorphous ferromagnets and in spin glasses

The magnetic phase transition in materials with exchange disorder (amorphous ferromagnets, spin glasses) is discussed. In the critical temperature range the behavior of amorphous ferromagnetic transition metal-metalloid glasses is found to be similar to the one derived for a three-dimensional homogeneous Heisenberg ferromagnet. The most prominent difference between disordered and homogeneous materials is manifested in a large temperature range of deviations from the mean field behavior beyond the critical region, as observed experimentally for the temperature dependence of the linear susceptibility of amorphous ferromagnets and of the nonlinear susceptibility of spin glasses. A molecular field theory with correlations in space and time is developed, which relates the deviations from the mean field behavior to the interplay between the temperature dependent thermal correlations in the spin system and the spatial fluctuations of the material. Application to dynamical processes (kinetic critical slowing down) is discussed.     

Universal Algorithm of the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Chaotic Systems

Scenarios of transition of nonlinear dynamical systems to chaos are considered based on the study of the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems represented as feedback systems and analysis of universality and scale invariance (fractal) properties of threshold dynamical structures at points of unstable equilibrium of these systems.     

Multiscale analysis in nonlinear thermal diffusion problems in composite structures

The aim of this paper is to analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solution of a nonlinear problem arising in the modelling of thermal diffusion in a two-component composite material. We consider, at the microscale, a periodic structure formed by two materials with different thermal properties. We assume that we have nonlinear sources and that at the interface between the two materials the flux is continuous and depends in a dynamical nonlinear way on the jump of the temperature field. We shall be interested in describing the asymptotic behavior of the temperature field in the periodic composite as the small parameter which characterizes the sizes of our two regions tends to zero. We prove that the effective behavior of the solution of this system is governed by a new system, similar to Barenblatt’s model, with additional terms capturing the effect of the interfacial barrier, of the dynamical boundary condition, and of the nonlinear sources.     

Dynamical heterogeneity and nonlinear susceptibility in supercooled liquids with short-range attraction

Recent work has demonstrated the strong qualitative differences between the dynamics near a glass transition driven by short-ranged repulsion and one governed by short-ranged attraction. Here we study in detail the behavior of nonlinear, higher-order correlation functions that measure the growth of length scales associated with dynamical heterogeneity in both types of systems. We find that this measure is qualitatively different in the repulsive and attractive cases with regards to the wave vector dependence as well as the time dependence of the standard nonlinear four-point dynamical susceptibility. We discuss the implications of these results for the general understanding of dynamical heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids.     

Lyapunov exponents in unstable systems

We investigate the dynamical behavior of unstable systems in the vicinity of the critical point associated with a liquid-gas phase transition. By considering a mean-field treatment, we first perform a linear analysis and discuss the instability growth times. Then, coming to complete Vlasov simulations, we investigate the role of nonlinear effects and calculate the Lyapunov exponents. As a main result, we find that near the critical point, the Lyapunov exponents exhibit a power-law behavior, with a critical exponent beta=0.5. This suggests that in thermodynamical systems the Lyapunov exponent behaves as an order parameter to signal the transition from the liquid to the gas phase.     

Diffusion,peer pressure,and tailed distributions

We present a general, physically motivated nonlinear and nonlocal advection equation in which the diffusion of interacting random walkers competes with a local drift arising from a kind of peer pressure. We show, using a mapping to an integrable dynamical system, that on varying a parameter the steady-state behavior undergoes a transition from the standard diffusive behavior to a localized stationary state characterized by a tailed distribution. Finally, we show that recent empirical laws on economic growth can be explained as a collective phenomenon due to peer pressure interaction.     

Route to chaos for combustion instability in ducted laminar premixed flames

Complex thermoacoustic oscillations are observed experimentally in a simple laboratory combustor that burns lean premixed fuel-air mixture, as a result of nonlinear interaction between the acoustic field and the combustion processes. The application of nonlinear time series analysis, particularly techniques based on phase space reconstruction from acquired pressure data, reveals rich dynamical behavior and the existence of several complex states. A route to chaos for thermoacoustic instability is established experimentally for the first time. We show that, as the location of the heat source is gradually varied, self-excited periodic thermoacoustic oscillations undergo transition to chaos via the Ruelle-Takens scenario.     

一类由饱和引起的非线性现象

以一个功率因数校正boost变换器为例，描述了当系统在饱和与非饱和状态间不断切换时出现的一类非线性现象，分析了这些现象的特点和产生原因.推导了考虑饱和的分段微分方程，并据此进行了仿真，结果表明,系统一方面会出现倍周期分岔和混沌等传统的非线性现象，另一方面由于整流输入电流碰到饱和边界，系统的定性行为发生突变，会出现边界碰撞分岔，还能从混沌直接变为周期1.这类由饱和引起的非线性现象及相关分析得到了实验验证.     

一类由饱和引起的非线性现象

以一个功率因数校正boost变换器为例,描述了当系统在饱和与非饱和状态间不断切换时出现的一类非线性现象,分析了这些现象的特点和产生原因.推导了考虑饱和的分段微分方程,并据此进行了仿真,结果表明,系统一方面会出现倍周期分岔和混沌等传统的非线性现象,另一方面由于整流输入电流碰到饱和边界,系统的定性行为发生突变,会出现边界碰撞分岔,还能从混沌直接变为周期1.这类由饱和引起的非线性现象及相关分析得到了实验验证. 关键词： 饱和 非线性 分岔 混沌     

Dynamics of Optical Bistability with Kerr-nonlinear Blackbody Radiation Reservoir

In this paper we investigate the nonlinear dynamics for optical bistabile(OB) model of homogeneously broadened two-level atomic medium interacting with a single mode of the ring cavity in the presence of a Kerr-nonlinear blackbody(KNB) radiation reservoir. We show the impact of the relative temperature of the reservoir on the transition between the dynamical states via bifurcation diagrams that represents the relation between maximum values of the output field and the relative temperature for fixed input field. Specifically, decreasing the relative temperature(T_b)causes the system to bifurcate from periodic to chaotic behavior and in turn reverts back to periodic behavior with further decrease of T_b. Varying atomic detuning leads to a change in the nature of the dynamic transition between the system's states from self pulsing to chaotic behavior.     

Phase-flip transition in nonlinear oscillators coupled by dynamic environment

We study the dynamics of nonlinear oscillators indirectly coupled through a dynamical environment or a common medium. We observed that this form of indirect coupling leads to synchronization and phase-flip transition in periodic as well as chaotic regime of oscillators. The phase-flip transition from in- to anti-phase synchronization or vise-versa is analyzed in the parameter plane with examples of Landau-Stuart and Ro?ssler oscillators. The dynamical transitions are characterized using various indices such as average phase difference, frequency, and Lyapunov exponents. Experimental evidence of the phase-flip transition is shown using an electronic version of the van der Pol oscillators.     

Direct observation of dynamical bifurcation between two driven oscillation states of a Josephson junction

We performed a novel phase-sensitive microwave reflection experiment which directly probes the dynamics of the Josephson plasma resonance in both the linear and the nonlinear regime. When the junction was driven below the plasma frequency into the nonlinear regime, we observed for the first time the transition between two different dynamical states predicted for nonlinear systems. In our experiment, this transition appears as an abrupt change in the reflected signal phase at a critical excitation power. This controlled dynamical switching can form the basis of a sensitive amplifier, in particular, for the readout of superconducting qubits.     

THE UNIVERSAL TRANSITION OF PLATEAU STRUCTURE OF LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS

The universal transition of Lyapunov exponents between conservative limit and dissipa-tire limit of nonlinear dynamical system is studied. It is discovered numerically and proved analytically that for homogeneous dissipative two-dimensional maps, along the equal dissi-pation line in parameter space, the Lyapunov exponents of attractor orbits possess a plateau structure and strict symmetry about its plateau value, The ratios between the plateau width and the stable window width of period 1-4 orbits for Henon map are calculated. The result shows that the plateau structure of Lyapunov exponents remains invariant for the attractor orbits belonging to a period doubling bifurcation sequence. This fact reveals a new universal transition behavior between order and chaos when the dissipation of the dynamical system is weakened to zero.     

Repulsive contact interactions make jammed particulate systems inherently nonharmonic

Many jammed particulate systems, such as granular and colloidal materials, interact via repulsive contact forces. We find that these systems possess no harmonic regime in the large system limit (N→∞) for all compressions Δ? studied, and at jamming onset Δ?→0 for all N. We perform fixed energy simulations following perturbations with amplitude δ along eigendirections of the dynamical matrix. The fluctuations abruptly spread to all modes for δ≈δ(c) (where a single contact breaks) in contrast to linear and weakly nonlinear behavior. For δ > δ(c), all discrete modes disappear into a continuous frequency band. <δ(c)> scales with 1/N and Δ?, which limits harmonic behavior to only overcompressed systems. The density of vibrational modes deviates strongly from that predicted from the dynamical matrix when the system enters the nonharmonic regime, which significantly affects its mechanical and transport properties.     

Dynamical aspects of the photoinduced phase transition in spin-crossover complexes

We report a dynamical study on the photoinduced cooperative changes of the spin configurations in single crystals of the organometal spin-crossover complex. In the photoswitching process between low- and high-spin states, nonlinear characteristics such as thresholdlike behavior, incubation period, and phase separation have been observed. These results demonstrate that the cooperative intersystem crossing mediated by spin-lattice interaction plays a key role in the driving process of a new class of nonequilibrium phenomena so called photoinduced phase transition.     

Finite temperature mott transition in hubbard model on anisotropic triangular lattice

We investigate the Hubbard model on the anisotropic triangular lattice by means of the cellular dynamical mean-field theory. The phase diagram determined in the Hubbard interaction versus temperature plane shows novel reentrant behavior in the Mott transition due to the competition between Fermi-liquid formation and magnetic correlations under geometrical frustration. We demonstrate that the reentrant behavior is characteristic of the Mott transition with intermediate geometrical frustration and indeed consistent with recent experimental results of organic materials.     

Mott transitions in multiorbital systems

Using the dynamical mean field theory it is shown that interorbital Coulomb interactions in nonisotropic multiorbital materials give rise to a single Mott transition. Nevertheless, narrow and wide subbands exhibit different excitation spectra in the metallic and insulating phases. The close analogy between "multigap" insulating behavior and multigap superconductivity is pointed out.     

Dynamic control and information processing in chemical reaction systems by tuning self-organization behavior

Specific external control of chemical reaction systems and both dynamic control and signal processing as central functions in biochemical reaction systems are important issues of modern nonlinear science. For example nonlinear input-output behavior and its regulation are crucial for the maintainance of the life process that requires extensive communication between cells and their environment. An important question is how the dynamical behavior of biochemical systems is controlled and how they process information transmitted by incoming signals. But also from a general point of view external forcing of complex chemical reaction processes is important in many application areas ranging from chemical engineering to biomedicine. In order to study such control issues numerically, here, we choose a well characterized chemical system, the CO oxidation on Pt(110), which is interesting per se as an externally forced chemical oscillator model. We show numerically that tuning of temporal self-organization by input signals in this simple nonlinear chemical reaction exhibiting oscillatory behavior can in principle be exploited for both specific external control of dynamical system behavior and processing of complex information.     

A Novel Measure Inspired by Lyapunov Exponents for the Characterization of Dynamics in State-Transition Networks

The combination of network sciences, nonlinear dynamics and time series analysis provides novel insights and analogies between the different approaches to complex systems. By combining the considerations behind the Lyapunov exponent of dynamical systems and the average entropy of transition probabilities for Markov chains, we introduce a network measure for characterizing the dynamics on state-transition networks with special focus on differentiating between chaotic and cyclic modes. One important property of this Lyapunov measure consists of its non-monotonous dependence on the cylicity of the dynamics. Motivated by providing proper use cases for studying the new measure, we also lay out a method for mapping time series to state transition networks by phase space coarse graining. Using both discrete time and continuous time dynamical systems the Lyapunov measure extracted from the corresponding state-transition networks exhibits similar behavior to that of the Lyapunov exponent. In addition, it demonstrates a strong sensitivity to boundary crisis suggesting applicability in predicting the collapse of chaos.