Testing quantum mechanics

1. Elementary Celestial and Hamiltonian Mechanics 2. Quasi-Integrable Hamiltonian System 3. Kam Tori 4. Single Resonance Dyanmics 5. Numerical Tools for the Detection of Chaos 6. Interactions Among Resonances 7. Secular Dynamics of the Planets 8. Secular Dynamics of Small Bodies 9. Mean Motion Resonances 10. Three Body Resonances 11. Secular Dynamics Inside Mean Motion Resonances 12. Global Dynamical Structure of the Belts of Small Bodies.

Modern celestial mechanics : aspects of solar system dynamics

Going beyond the linearized study has been a longstanding problem in the theory of Landau damping. In this paper we establish exponential Landau damping in analytic regularity. The damping phenomenon is reinterpreted in terms of transfer of regularity between kinetic and spatial variables, rather than exchanges of energy; phase mixing is the driving mechanism. The analysis involves new families of analytic norms, measuring regularity by comparison with solutions of the free transport equation; new functional inequalities; a control of non-linear echoes; sharp “deflection” estimates; and a Newton approximation scheme. Our results hold for any potential no more singular than Coulomb or Newton interaction; the limit cases are included with specific technical effort. As a side result, the stability of homogeneous equilibria of the non-linear Vlasov equation is established under sharp assumptions. We point out the strong analogy with the KAM theory, and discuss physical implications. Finally, we extend these results to some Gevrey (non-analytic) distribution functions.

On Landau damping

A brief review of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) paradox is given, together with its suggested resolutions and its relation to other physical problems. We focus on the ideas and concepts that have become the core of modern nonlinear mechanics, in their historical perspective. Starting from the first numerical results of FPU, both theoretical and numerical findings are discussed in close connection with the problems of ergodicity, integrability, chaos and stability of motion. New directions related to the Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum systems of interacting Bose-particles are also considered.

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The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem: fifty years of progress.

Stochasticity in quantum systems

CONTENTS § 1 Introduction § 2 Unsolved problems Conjectures Generalizations § 3 The main ideas of the proof of the exponential estimate § 4 Steepness conditions Precise statement of the main theorem § 5 Forbidden motions § 6 Resonances Resonance zones and blocks § 7 Dependence of the diameters of the discs of fast drift on the steepness of the unperturbed Hamiltonian § 8 Condition for the non-overlapping of resonances § 9 Traps in frequency systems Completion of the proof of the main theorem § 10 Statement of the lemma on the elimination of non-resonance harmonics, and of the technical lemmas used in the proof of the main theorem § 11 Remarks on the proof of the main theorem § 12 Application of the main theorem to the many-body problem References

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1070/RM1977v032n06ABEH003859/pdf

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Papers

An exponential estimate of the time of stability of nearly-integrable hamiltonian systems