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Dynamical Monodromy
Physical Review E
  • C. Chen
  • Megan K. Ivory, William & Mary
  • Seth Aubin, William & Mary
  • John B. Delos, William & Mary
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Pub Date
1-1-2014
Publisher
American Physical Society
Abstract

Integrable Hamiltonian systems are said to display nontrivial monodromy if fundamental action-angle loops defined on phase-space tori change their topological structure when the system is carried around a circuit. In an earlier paper it was shown that this topological change can occur as a result of time evolution under certain rather abstract flows in phase space. In the present paper, we show that the same topological change can occur as a result of application of ordinary forces. We also show how this dynamical phenomenon could be observed experimentally in classical or in quantum systems.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.012919
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Citation Information
C. Chen, Megan K. Ivory, Seth Aubin and John B. Delos. "Dynamical Monodromy" Physical Review E Vol. 89 Iss. 1 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john-delos/28/