Strong and weak chaos in weakly nonintegrable many-body Hamiltonian systems

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0335-3zbMATH Open1252.82033arXiv1103.2634OpenAlexW2073252874WikidataQ62593621 ScholiaQ62593621MaRDI QIDQ658480FDOQ658480

Authors: Mario Mulansky, Karsten Ahnert, Arkady Pikovsky, D. L. Shepelyansky 

Publication date: 12 January 2012

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study properties of chaos in generic one-dimensional nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices comprised of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators, by numerical simulations of continuous-time systems and symplectic maps. For small coupling, the measure of chaos is found to be proportional to the coupling strength and lattice length, with the typical maximal Lyapunov exponent being proportional to the square root of coupling. This strong chaos appears as a result of triplet resonances between nearby modes. In addition to strong chaos we observe a weakly chaotic component having much smaller Lyapunov exponent, the measure of which drops approximately as a square of the coupling strength down to smallest couplings we were able to reach. We argue that this weak chaos is linked to the regime of fast Arnold diffusion discussed by Chirikov and Vecheslavov. In disordered lattices of large size we find a subdiffusive spreading of initially localized wave packets over larger and larger number of modes. The relations between the exponent of this spreading and the exponent in the dependence of the fast Arnold diffusion on coupling strength are analyzed. We also trace parallels between the slow spreading of chaos and deterministic rheology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2634

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zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov exponentArnold diffusionchaos spreading

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60) Perturbations, KAM theory for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K55)

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