Experimental observation of topological transition in linear and non-linear parametric oscillators

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Main Authors: Apffel, Benjamin, Fleury, Romain
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author Apffel, Benjamin
Fleury, Romain
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Fleury, Romain
contents Parametric oscillators are examples of externally driven systems that can exhibit two stable states with opposite phase depending on the initial conditions. In this work, we propose to study what happens when the external forcing is perturbed by a continuously parametrized defect. Initially in one of its stable state, the oscillator will be perturbed by the defect and finally reach another stable state, which can be its initial one or the other one. For some critical value of the defect parameter, the final state changes abruptly. We investigate theoretically and experimentally such transition both in the linear and non-linear case, and the effect of non-linearities is discussed. A topological interpretation in terms of winding number is proposed, and we show that winding changes correspond to singularities in the temporal dynamics. An experimental observation of such transition is performed using parametric Faraday instability at the surface of a vibrated fluid.
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spellingShingle Experimental observation of topological transition in linear and non-linear parametric oscillators
Apffel, Benjamin
Fleury, Romain
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Fluid Dynamics
Parametric oscillators are examples of externally driven systems that can exhibit two stable states with opposite phase depending on the initial conditions. In this work, we propose to study what happens when the external forcing is perturbed by a continuously parametrized defect. Initially in one of its stable state, the oscillator will be perturbed by the defect and finally reach another stable state, which can be its initial one or the other one. For some critical value of the defect parameter, the final state changes abruptly. We investigate theoretically and experimentally such transition both in the linear and non-linear case, and the effect of non-linearities is discussed. A topological interpretation in terms of winding number is proposed, and we show that winding changes correspond to singularities in the temporal dynamics. An experimental observation of such transition is performed using parametric Faraday instability at the surface of a vibrated fluid.
title Experimental observation of topological transition in linear and non-linear parametric oscillators
topic Pattern Formation and Solitons
Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03733