Zero-dispersion phenomena in oscillatory systems

SM Soskin, R Mannella, PVE McClintock - Physics reports, 2003 - Elsevier
Phenomena occurring in a particular class of nonlinear oscillatory systems—zero-dispersion
systems—are reviewed for cases with and without damping while the system is driven either …

Analogue studies of nonlinear systems

DG Luchinsky, PVE McClintock… - Reports on Progress in …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
The design of analogue electronic experiments to investigate phenomena in nonlinear
dynamics, especially stochastic phenomena, is described in practical terms. The advantages …

Non-monotonic dynamics (mixed hardening/softening) in nonlinear continuous structures: An asymptotic formulation

F Lan, T Guo - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Non-monotonic dynamics of nonlinear continuous structures, ie, mixed hardening
(H)/softening (S) behavior in the vicinity of H/S transition, is comprehensively investigated by …

Frequency stabilization and noise-induced spectral narrowing in resonators with zero dispersion

L Huang, SM Soskin, IA Khovanov, R Mannella… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mechanical resonators are widely used as precision clocks and sensitive detectors that rely
on the stability of their eigenfrequencies. The phase noise is determined by different factors …

Optimal fluctuations and the control of chaos

DG Luchinsky, S Beri, R Mannella… - … Journal of Bifurcation …, 2002 - World Scientific
The energy-optimal migration of a chaotic oscillator from one attractor to another coexisting
attractor is investigated via an analogy between the Hamiltonian theory of fluctuations and …

Zero-dispersion nonlinear resonance

SM Soskin, DG Luchinsky, R Mannella… - … Journal of Bifurcation …, 1997 - World Scientific
Underdamped oscillators that possess a maximum or minimum in their dependence of
eigenfrequency on energy have recently been shown to exhibit a range of unusual …

Large fluctuations in multiattractor systems and the generalized Kramers problem

SM Soskin - Journal of Statistical Physics, 1999 - Springer
The main subject of the paper is an escape from a multiwell metastable potential on the
timescale of the formation of the quasiequilibrium between the wells. Our main attention is …

[HTML][HTML] Nontwist maps

PJ Morrison, A Wurm - Scholarpedia, 2009 - var.scholarpedia.org
Area-preserving nontwist maps are low-dimensional models of physical systems that locally
violate the twist condition. An important problem for applications is the determination and …

Bifurcation analysis of zero-dispersion nonlinear resonance

R Mannella, SM Soskin… - International Journal of …, 1998 - World Scientific
The problem of zero-dispersion nonlinear resonance—a phenomenon that can occur in a
periodically-driven nonlinear oscillator whose eigenfrequency as a function of energy …

AC-driven anomalous stochastic diffusion and chaotic transport in magnetic superlattices

OM Yevtushenko, K Richter - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 1999 - Elsevier
We study regular and chaotic motion of the charge carriers in a two-dimensional electron
gas subject to a spatially periodic magnetic field and to an AC electric field. We show how …