Low energy chaos in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem

A possibility that in the FPU problem the critical energy for chaos goes to zero with the increase of the number of particles in the chain is discussed. The distribution for long linear waves in this regime is found and an estimate for new border of transition to energy equipartition is given.Comment: revtex, 12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Nonlinearit

Asymptotic Statistics of Poincar\'e Recurrences in Hamiltonian Systems with Divided Phase Space

By different methods we show that for dynamical chaos in the standard map with critical golden curve the Poincar\'e recurrences P(\tau) and correlations C(\tau) asymptotically decay in time as P ~ C/\tau ~ 1/\tau^3. It is also explained why this asymptotic behavior starts only at very large times. We argue that the same exponent p=3 should be also valid for a general chaos border.Comment: revtex, 4 pages, 3 ps-figure

Universal diffusion near the golden chaos border

We study local diffusion rate $D$ in Chirikov standard map near the critical golden curve. Numerical simulations confirm the predicted exponent $\alpha=5$ for the power law decay of $D$ as approaching the golden curve via principal resonances with period $q_n$ ($D \sim 1/q^{\alpha}_n$). The universal self-similar structure of diffusion between principal resonances is demonstrated and it is shown that resonances of other type play also an important role.Comment: 4 pages Latex, revtex, 3 uuencoded postscript figure

Delocalization induced by nonlinearity in systems with disorder

We study numerically the effects of nonlinearity on the Anderson localization in lattices with disorder in one and two dimensions. The obtained results show that at moderate strength of nonlinearity an unlimited spreading over the lattice in time takes place with an algebraic growth of number of populated sites $\Delta n \propto t^{\nu}$. The numerical values of $\nu$ are found to be approximately $0.15 - 0.2$ and 0.25 for the dimension $d=1$ and 2 respectively being in a satisfactory agreement with the theoretical value $d/(3d+2)$. The localization is preserved below a certain critical value of nonlinearity. We also discuss the properties of the fidelity decay induced by a perturbation of nonlinear field.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figures. New data and references added. Research at http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr

Clustering, Chaos and Crisis in a Bailout Embedding Map

We study the dynamics of inertial particles in two dimensional incompressible flows. The particle dynamics is modelled by four dimensional dissipative bailout embedding maps of the base flow which is represented by 2-d area preserving maps. The phase diagram of the embedded map is rich and interesting both in the aerosol regime, where the density of the particle is larger than that of the base flow, as well as the bubble regime, where the particle density is less than that of the base flow. The embedding map shows three types of dynamic behaviour, periodic orbits, chaotic structures and mixed regions. Thus, the embedding map can target periodic orbits as well as chaotic structures in both the aerosol and bubble regimes at certain values of the dissipation parameter. The bifurcation diagram of the 4-d map is useful for the identification of regimes where such structures can be found. An attractor merging and widening crisis is seen for a special region for the aerosols. At the crisis, two period-10 attractors merge and widen simultaneously into a single chaotic attractor. Crisis induced intermittency is seen at some points in the phase diagram. The characteristic times before bursts at the crisis show power law behaviour as functions of the dissipation parameter. Although the bifurcation diagram for the bubbles looks similar to that of aerosols, no such crisis regime is seen for the bubbles. Our results can have implications for the dynamics of impurities in diverse application contexts.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, submitted for publicatio

Quantum Poincar\'e Recurrences

We show that quantum effects modify the decay rate of Poincar\'e recurrences P(t) in classical chaotic systems with hierarchical structure of phase space. The exponent p of the algebraic decay P(t) ~ 1/t^p is shown to have the universal value p=1 due to tunneling and localization effects. Experimental evidence of such decay should be observable in mesoscopic systems and cold atoms.Comment: revtex, 4 pages, 4 figure