Nonlinear Dynamics

Published August 3, 2009

Graphene Nonlinear Dynamics

Graphene is not just your everyday relativistic quantum playground; it may have ghostly chaotic features as well.

Published July 27, 2009

Interdisciplinary Physics Nonlinear Dynamics

Can physicists still learn anything about molecular motion from the classical pendulum?

Published July 13, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics Optics

The fastest known random number generator based on a physical process comes from intensity fluctuations in the light from a chaotic laser.

Published May 4, 2009

Materials Science Nonlinear Dynamics Quantum Mechanics

Neutron scattering measurements indicate that intrinsic localized modes are found in thermal equilibrium in NaI, a simple ionic crystal.

Published March 23, 2009

Nanophysics Nonlinear Dynamics

Molecular dynamics simulations unveil an example of dynamical symmetry breaking at the nanoscale.

Published December 22, 2008

Fluid Dynamics Nonlinear Dynamics

A magnetic field can control the speed with which waves move on the surface of a ferrofluid. Scientists take advantage of this capability to explore new regimes of wave turbulence.

Published September 9, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics

Shock waves, familiar from hydrodynamics, acoustics, and optics, have been observed in the changing charge state of iron defects in lithium niobate crystals upon application of even a modest voltage across the crystal.

Published September 8, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics

Scientists have developed a unifying theory to describe turbulence in two dimensions that could help explain large-scale flow in the earth’s ocean and atmosphere.

Published August 11, 2008

Interdisciplinary Physics Nonlinear Dynamics

Acoustic vortices that interact in a nonlinear medium may be one route to a new kind of robust arithmetic computation.