Mikrowelt: Bose-Einstein-Kondensat/Photonenstatistik
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Slide: Functional Principle of the Paul Trap
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Sensible Dependence on Initial Conditions
The figure shows the effect of a minimal disturbance of the motion in a Lorenz system.
This symptom of a sensitive dependence on initial conditions
is often also viewed as the essence of chaotic dynamics. This conception is certainly in need of revision: there are nonchaotic classical systems that show the same behaviour - and the theme quantum chaos hints at different criteria, too.
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