PHYS 618 Nonlinear & Chaotic Dynamics

Dynamical systems, chaotic behavior, attractors. Maps and Poincare sections. Strange attractors and fractal dimensions. Lyapunov exponents, entropies. Measures of chaos, algorithmic complexity. Bifurcations, universality. Quasiperiodicity. Chaos in Hamiltonian systems. Introduction to quantum chaos.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PHYS 615