Vertically vibrating a liquid bath can give rise to a self-propelled wave-particle entity on its free surface. The horizontal walking dynamics of this wave-particle entity can be described adequately by an integro-differential trajectory equation. By transforming this integro-differential equation of motion for a one-dimensional wave-particle entity into a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), we show the emergence of Lorenz-like dynamical systems for various spatial wave forms of the entity. Specifically, we present and give examples of Lorenz-like dynamical systems that emerge when the wave form gradient is (i) a solution of a linear homogeneous constant coefficient ODE, (ii) a polynomial, and (iii) a periodic function. Understanding the dynamics of the wave-particle entity in terms of Lorenz-like systems may prove to be useful in rationalizing emergent statistical behavior from underlying chaotic dynamics in hydrodynamic quantum analogs of walking droplets. Moreover, the results presented here provide an alternative physical interpretation of various Lorenz-like dynamical systems in terms of the walking dynamics of a wave-particle entity.
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Chaos
January 2024
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
A classical wave-particle entity (WPE) can materialize as a millimeter-sized droplet walking horizontally on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath. This WPE comprises a particle (droplet) that shapes its environment by locally exciting decaying standing waves, which, in turn, guides the particle motion. At high amplitude of bath vibrations, the particle-generated waves decay very slowly in time and the particle motion is influenced by the history of waves along its trajectory.
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March 2023
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
A classical wave-particle entity (WPE) can be realized experimentally as a droplet walking on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath, with the droplet's horizontal walking motion guided by its self-generated wave field. These self-propelled WPEs have been shown to exhibit analogs of several quantum and optical phenomena. Using an idealized theoretical model that takes the form of a Lorenz-like system, we theoretically and numerically explore the dynamics of such a one-dimensional WPE in a sinusoidal potential.
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February 2022
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
Vertically vibrating a liquid bath can give rise to a self-propelled wave-particle entity on its free surface. The horizontal walking dynamics of this wave-particle entity can be described adequately by an integro-differential trajectory equation. By transforming this integro-differential equation of motion for a one-dimensional wave-particle entity into a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), we show the emergence of Lorenz-like dynamical systems for various spatial wave forms of the entity.
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