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Closed trajectories around the whirl-type non-rough points cannot be mathematical models for sustained self-oscillations since there exists a wide range over which neither amplitude nor self-oscillation period depends on both initial conditions and system parameters. According to Andronov et al., the stable limit cycles are a mathematical model for self-oscillations. These are isolated closed-phase trajectories with inner and outer sides approached by spiral-shape phase trajectories. The literature lacks general approaches to finding limit cycles. 

A sequence of successive con figurations from a Mon te Carlo simulation constitutes a trajectory in phase space with IlypcrC hem. this trajectory in ay be saved and played back in the same way as a dynamics trajectory. With appropriate choices of setup parameters, the Mon te Carlo m ethod m ay ach leve ec nilibration more rapidly than molecular dynamics. Tor some systems, then. Monte C arlo provides a more direct route to equilibrium sinictural and thermodynamic properties. However, these calculations can be quite long, depentiing upon the system studied. 

In fact, (3.22) is the usual stationary phase approximation, performed however for an infinitedimensional path integral, which picks up the trajectories with classical action S. Further, at fixed time t we take the integral over Xi again in the stationary phase approximation, which gives... 

From a theoretical perspective, the object that is initially created in the excited state is a coherent superposition of all the wavefunctions encompassed by the broad frequency spread of the laser. Because the laser pulse is so short in comparison with the characteristic nuclear dynamical time scales of the motion, each excited wavefunction is prepared with a definite phase relation with respect to all the others in the superposition. It is this initial coherence and its rate of dissipation which determine all spectroscopic and collisional properties of the molecule as it evolves over a femtosecond time scale. For IBr, the nascent superposition state, or wavepacket, spreads and executes either periodic vibrational motion as it oscillates between the inner and outer turning points of the bound potential, or dissociates to form separated atoms, as indicated by the trajectories shown in Figure 1.3. 

Despite the little experimental data, there are two models available in the literature. Adams etal. (1992) considered dense phase conveying. They tried to predict the amount of attrition as a function of conveying distance by coupling a Monte Carlo simulation of the pneumatic conveying process with data from single-particle abrasion tests. Salman et al. (1992) focused on dilute phase conveying. They coupled a theoretical model that predicts the particle trajectory with single particle impact tests (cf. Mills, 1992). 

On the other hand, the nonequilibrium steady states are constructed by weighting each phase-space trajectory with a probability which is different for their time reversals. As a consequence, the invariant probability distribution describing the nonequilibrium steady state at the microscopic phase-space level explicitly breaks the time-reversal symmetry. 

The stability matrix carries the necessary information related to the vicinity of the trajectory and provides an efficient numerical procedure for computing the response function. It plays an important role in the field of classical chaos the sign of its eigenvalues (related to the Lyapunov exponents) controls the chaotic nature of the system. Interference effects in classical response functions have a different origin than their quantum counterparts. For each initial phase-space point we need to launch two trajectories with very close initial conditions. [For 5(n) we need n trajectories.] The nonlinear response is obtained by adding the contributions of these trajectories and letting them interfere. 

This type of a pattern of singular points is called a centre - Fig. 2.3. A centre arises in a conservative system indeed, eliminating time from (2.1.28), (2.1.29), one arrives at an equation on the phase plane with separable variables which can be easily integrated. The relevant phase trajectories are closed the model describes the undamped concentration oscillations. Every trajectory has its own period T > 2-k/ujq defined by the initial conditions. It means that the Lotka-Volterra model is able to describe the continuous frequency spectrum oj < u>o, corresponding to the infinite number of periodical trajectories. Unlike the Lotka model (2.1.21), this model is not rough since... 

Figure 6.36 gives a single plot with another set of altered heat and concentration initial values spelled out in detail in the figure s title line. Recall that all phase trajectories start at a small o mark and end at a small mark when r =Tend. 

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