Experimental switching between coexisting attractors in the yoke-bell-clapper system.

This paper presents experimental switching between two attractors in the swinging bell. In the considered yoke-bell-clapper system, two coexisting solutions appear. In the first one, we observe a single impact between the bell and the clapper per one period of motion, and in the second solution, no impacts occur-no sound is produced.

Review of sample-based methods used in an analysis of multistable dynamical systems.

Sample-based methods are a useful tool in analyzing the global behavior of multi-stable systems originating from various branches of science. Classical methods, such as bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, and basins of attraction, often fail to analyze complex systems with many coexisting attractors. Thus, we have to apply a different strategy to understand the dynamics of such systems.

Jammed systems of oriented needles always percolate on square lattices.

Random sequential adsorption (RSA) is a standard method of modeling adsorption of large molecules at the liquid-solid interface. Several studies have recently conjectured that in the RSA of rectangular needles, or k-mers, on a square lattice, percolation is impossible if the needles are sufficiently long (k of order of several thousand). We refute these claims and present rigorous proof that in any jammed configuration of nonoverlapping, fixed-length, horizontal, or vertical needles on a square lattice, all clusters are percolating clusters.