Experimental demonstration of classical Hamiltonian monodromy in the 1:1:2 resonant elastic pendulum

Details Experimental demonstration of classical Hamiltonian monodromy in the 1:1:2 resonant elastic pendulum Experimental demonstration of classical Hamiltonian monodromy in the 1:1:2 resonant elastic pendulum

2009-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/0906.2941v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

5 pages, accepted to PRL

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The 1:1:2 resonant elastic pendulum is a simple classical system that displays the phenomenon known as Hamiltonian monodromy. With suitable initial conditions, the system oscillates between nearly pure springing and nearly pure elliptical-swinging motions, with sequential major axes displaying a stepwise precession. The physical consequence of monodromy is that this stepwise precession is given by a smooth but multivalued function of the constants of motion. We experimentally explore this multivalued behavior. To our knowledge, this is the first experimental demonstration of classical monodromy.

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