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Seminar

Hamiltonian Systems

Talk Information
Title
Phase-locking in dynamical systems and quantum mechanics
Start date and time
12:00 on Thursday November 27, 2025
Duration in minutes
60 (until 13:00 on Thursday November 27, 2025)
Room
Virtual
Streaming password
448487
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Abstract

We will discuss the Pr\"{u}fer transform that connects the dynamical system on the torus and the Hill equation, which is interpreted as either the equation of motion for the parametric oscillator or the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with periodic potential. The structure of phase-locking domains in the dynamical system on torus is mapped into the band-gap structure of the Hill equation. For the parametric oscillator, we provide the relation between the non-adiabatic Hannay angle and the Poincar\'{e} rotation number of the corresponding dynamical system. In terms of quantum mechanics, the integer rotation number is connected to the quantization number via the Milne quantization approach and exact WKB. Using recent results concerning the exact WKB approach in quantum mechanics, we discuss the possible non-perturbative effects in the dynamical systems on the torus and for parametric oscillator. The semiclassical WKB is interpreted in the framework of a slow-fast dynamical system. The link between the classification of the coadjoint Virasoro orbits and the Hill equation yields a classification of the phase-locking domains in the parameter space in terms of the classification of Virasoro orbits. Our picture is supported by numerical simulations for the model of the Josephson junction and Mathieu equation.

Speaker Information
Full Name
Alexander Gorsky
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Institution
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia
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