Publication Date:
2019-07-12
Description:
Certain first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations exemplified by strongly damped, quasiperiodically driven pendula and Josephson junctions are isomorphic to Schroedinger equations with quasiperiodic potentials. The implications of this equivalence are discussed. In particular, it is shown that the transition to Anderson localization in the Schroedinger problem corresponds to the occurrence of a novel type of strange attractor in the pendulum problem. This transition should be experimentally observable in the frequency spectrum of the pendulum of Josephson junction.
Keywords:
PHYSICS (GENERAL)
Type:
Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007); 55; 2103-210
Format:
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