Adjoint-based optimization with quantized local reduced-order models for spatiotemporally chaotic systems

This paper introduces a computationally efficient method combining quantized local reduced-order modeling with adjoint-based optimization to successfully reconstruct trajectories and optimize spatiotemporally chaotic systems, achieving a 3.5-fold speedup over full-order models in a Kuramoto-Sivashinsky variational data assimilation problem.

Defne E. Ozan, Antonio Colanera, Luca MagriMon, 09 Ma🌀 nlin

Global stability of the Atlantic overturning circulation: Edge state, long transients and boundary crisis under CO2_2 forcing

Using an intermediate-complexity climate model, this study reveals that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) undergoes a boundary crisis under rising CO2_2 levels, where the collapse of its stable state and the resulting long chaotic transients governed by edge states explain large ensemble variances and apparent stochastic bifurcations in Earth system models.

Reyk Börner, Oliver Mehling, Jost von Hardenberg, Valerio LucariniMon, 09 Ma🔬 physics

Operational Emergence of a Global Phase under Time-Dependent Coupling in Oscillator Networks

This paper establishes an operational criterion for the emergence of a well-defined global phase in time-dependent oscillator networks, demonstrating that phase robustness depends on the competition between coupling strength and ramp rates, with spectral properties governing synchronization in random networks while topological defects induce persistent partial ordering in spatial lattices.

Veronica SanzMon, 09 Ma🔬 physics

Prediction performance of random reservoirs with different topology for nonlinear dynamical systems with different number of degrees of freedom

This study demonstrates that symmetric reservoir topologies significantly enhance prediction accuracy for low-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems with limited input dimensions, whereas high-dimensional chaotic systems like turbulent shear flow exhibit minimal sensitivity to such structural symmetries.

Shailendra K. Rathor, Lina Jaurigue, Martin Ziegler + 1 more2026-03-10🌀 nlin

Emulating the logistic map with totalistic cellular automata

This paper demonstrates that while a probabilistic totalistic cellular automaton's mean-field formulation approximates the logistic equation only with infinite-range interactions, numerical studies show that shuffling configurations or rewiring a fraction of links (including in small-world networks) effectively emulates logistic behavior and exhibits a bifurcation cascade in density, a phenomenon that also extends to deterministic totalistic automata with similar symmetries.

Franco Bagnoli2026-03-06🔬 physics

Lagrangian chaos and the enstrophy cascade in Ekman-Navier-Stokes two-dimensional turbulence

This paper investigates how linear Ekman friction alters the enstrophy cascade in two-dimensional turbulence by demonstrating that, under high friction, vorticity becomes passively transported, allowing a phenomenological model based on Gaussian-distributed Lagrangian Finite Time Lyapunov Exponents to accurately predict the resulting spectral slope corrections.

Francesco Michele Ventrella, Victor de Jesus Valadão, Guido Boffetta + 2 more2026-03-06🔬 physics

Structured Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural ODEs for Interpretable Learning and Symbolic Discovery of Nonlinear Dynamics

This paper introduces Structured Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural ODEs (SKANODEs), a framework that combines structured state-space modeling with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks to accurately recover interpretable physical latent states and discover compact symbolic governing equations for nonlinear dynamical systems, outperforming black-box neural ODEs and classical identification methods across synthetic and real-world datasets.

Wei Liu, Kiran Bacsa, Loon Ching Tang + 1 more2026-03-06🔬 physics

Spectral form factor and power spectrum for trapped interacting rotating bosons: Crossover from integrability to quantum chaos

This study utilizes exact diagonalization of spectral form factors and power spectra to demonstrate how trapped interacting rotating bosons transition from integrable or pseudo-integrable behavior in moderate interaction regimes to strong quantum chaos consistent with the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble in strong interaction regimes, driven by the interplay between interaction strength and rotational angular momentum.

Mohd Talib, M. A. H. Ahsan2026-03-04⚛️ quant-ph