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Chaotic hysteresis in an adiabatically oscillating double well

N. Berglund, H. Kunz

chao-dynarXiv:chao-dyn/9612015

Abstract

We consider the motion of a damped particle in a potential oscillating slowly between a simple and a double well. The system displays hysteresis effects which can be of periodic or chaotic type. We explain this behaviour by computing an analytic expression of a Poincar'e map.

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