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Chaotic Dynamics

Dynamical systems, chaos, quantum chaos, topological dynamics, cycle expansions, turbulence, propagation

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Multi-model forecasts beat individuals via chaotic error cancellation

Reservoir computing isolates why the multi-model mean beats its members: errors cancel along the unstable manifold of chaos.

· “Understanding the superiority of multi-model ensemble forecasts through reservoir computing”

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Boreholes sharpen deep-ocean heat in a 2,500-year climate record

Treating each archive on its own timescale lifts 300–2000 m ocean heat content agreement from CE 0.19 to 0.91.

· “Coupled multiscale paleoclimate reconstruction with four-dimensional variational data assimilation”

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Posits fail to replace double precision in chaotic N-body test

One Posit library matches fp64's precision but runs ~1000x slower; the other errs ~10x more.

· “Validating direct solvers for Newton's gravitational N-body problem, and the systematic comparison between IEEE floating point and Posits”

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A 3.36-second reaction delay flips a diver into porpoising

Hovering, oscillation, and runaway share one delayed feedback loop; saturation, not lost stability, sets the escape switch.

· “An Idealized Delay-Differential Model of Scuba Diver Porpoising and Runaway Ascent”

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Slope of forecast errors recovers negative Lyapunov exponents

Nearest-neighbor forecast-error decay gives contraction rates from short recovery responses, without a Jacobian.

· “Equation-Free Period-Aware Forecast-Error Contraction for Estimating Negative Largest Lyapunov Exponents from Short Trajectory Ensembles”

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Make the control parameter chaotic and intermittency collapses

An exact instability measure shows the collapse, and three-bubble simulations confirm stable periodic motion returns.

· “Chaos suppression via adaptive feedback control of intermittency: From exactly solvable ergodic maps to interacting microbubble clusters”

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Colliding soliton trains go chaotic through Lotka-Volterra reduction

Shifted energy variables keep the reduced model valid despite distorted pulse shapes, matching full simulations over long distances.

· “Transition to spatiotemporal chaos with multiple colliding pulse sequences of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation”

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Custom Poincaré slices reveal a 16/5 resonance chain

New force-aligned and orbit-aligned sections beat rigid cuts at exposing hidden islands in the elastic pendulum.

· “A Framework for Intrinsic Poincar\'e Sections and Phase-Space Manifold Visualization: A Case Study of the Planar Elastic Pendulum”

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Largest eigenvalue flags Ising criticality and chaos onset

Correlation-matrix spectra act as empirical order parameters without a free energy or pre-chosen macroscopic variable.

· “Phase Transitions and Order Parameters in Correlation Matrices: A Wishart-Ensemble Perspective on the Largest Eigenvalue”

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Magnetic field drives convection rolls to split and merge

In 2D magnetoconvection, a vertical field turns periodic rolls into chaotic traveling rolls via saddle-focus collisions and reconnection.

· “Transition to chaos in two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection: the role of the magnetic field”

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