Chaotic hysteresis in an adiabatically oscillating double well
N. Berglund, H. Kunz
Phys. Rev. Letters 78, 1691-1694 (1997)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 Poincaré map.
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