News tagged with nonlinear dynamical systems

New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have been trying to understand the many strange implications of the theory: superpositions, wave-particle duality, and the observer’s ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (98) | comments 162 feature




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Frequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators

Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The secrets of the system

As the United States seeks to reinvigorate its job market and move past economic recession, MIT News examines manufacturing’s role in the country’s economic future through this series on work at the Institute ...

Technology / Software

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chaos puts a path on nanoparticles

At just over seven feet tall, Shaquille O’Neal is easy to spot in crowd. But the individual virus structures that give him, and us, a cold aren’t so easy to see.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

The next big step toward atom-specific dynamical chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- For Ali Belkacem of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division, “What is chemistry?” is not a rhetorical question.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eye on ionization: Visualizing and controlling bound electron dynamics in strong laser fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Subatomic events can be remarkably counterintuitive. Such is the case in theoretical physics when, under certain specific conditions, atoms exposed to intense infrared laser pulses remain ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Two seemingly unrelated phenomena share surprising link: Physicists gain new insight into solitons

(PhysOrg.com) -- A coupled line of swinging pendulums apparently has nothing in common with an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid, but scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists propose solution to constraint satisfaction problems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Maria Ercsey-Ravasz, a postdoctoral associate and Zoltan Toroczkai, professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, have proposed an alternative approach to solving difficult constraint ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Meet MABEL: World's fastest two-legged robot with knees

Recently, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor made a robot run like a human.

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

El Nino and the tropical Eastern Pacific annual cycle run to the same beat

Phase synchronization is a phenomenon in which separate oscillatory systems develop joint coherent behavior by some nonlinear mechanism. First described in 1673 by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, this ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers map the physics of Tibetan singing bowls

Researchers have been investigating the connection between fifth century Himalayan instruments used in religious ceremonies and modern physics.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 13 | with audio podcast


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