Power-law trapping in the volume-preserving Arnold-Beltrami-Childress map

Partial barriers to chaotic transport in 4D symplectic maps

Chaotic transport in Hamiltonian systems is often restricted due to the presence of partial barriers, leading to a limited flux between different regions in phase space. Typically, the most restrictive partial barrier in a 2D symplectic map is based on a cantorus, the Cantor set remnants of a broken 1D torus. For a 4D symplectic map, we establish a partial barrier based on what we call a cantorus-NHIM-a normally hyperbolic invariant manifold with the structure of a cantorus. Using a flux formula, we determine the global 4D flux across a partial barrier based on a cantorus-NHIM by approximating it with high-order periodic NHIMs. In addition, we introduce a local 3D flux depending on the position along a resonance channel, which is relevant in the presence of slow Arnold diffusion. Moreover, for a partial barrier composed of stable and unstable manifolds of a NHIM, we utilize periodic NHIMs to quantify the corresponding flux.

Regular regimes of the harmonic three-mass system

The symmetric harmonic three-mass system with finite rest lengths, despite its apparent simplicity, displays a wide array of interesting dynamics for different energy values. At low energy the system shows regular behavior that produces a deformation-induced rotation with a constant averaged angular velocity. As the energy is increased this behavior makes way to a chaotic regime with rotational behavior statistically resembling Lévy walks and random walks. At high enough energies, where the rest lengths become negligible, the chaotic signature vanishes and the system returns to regularity, with a single dominant frequency. The transition to and from chaos, as well as the anomalous power-law statistics measured for the angular displacement of the harmonic three-mass system are largely governed by the structure of regular solutions of this mixed Hamiltonian system. Thus, a deeper understating of the system's irregular behavior requires mapping out its regular solutions. In this work we provide a comprehensive analysis of the system's regular regimes of motion, using perturbative methods to derive analytical expressions of the system as almost-integrable in its low- and high-energy extremes. The compatibility of this description with the full system is shown numerically. In the low-energy regime, the Birkhoff normal form method is utilized to circumvent the low-order 1:1 resonance of the system, and the conditions for Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theory are shown to hold. The integrable approximations provide the back-bone structure around which the behavior of the full nonlinear system is organized and provide a pathway to understanding the origin of the power-law statistics measured in the system.

Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution and the quantum ergodicity transition: a phase space perspective

The onset of facile intramolecular vibrational energy flow can be related to features in the connected network of anharmonic resonances in the classical phase space.