Abstract
We consider the motion of a damped particle in a potential oscillating slowly between a simple and a double well. The system displays hysteresis effects which can be of a periodic or chaotic type. We explain this behavior by computing an analytic expression of a Poincaré map.
- Received 3 October 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1691
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