Gravity detection through bifurcation. |
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Authors: | D K Kondepudi P B Storm |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. |
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Abstract: | Bifurcation is a phenomenon in which a physical system is forced to make a choice between one of the several possible states to which it can evolve. In this process the system can become extremely sensitive to very small influences--smaller than the size of the fluctuations--that favor one of the states. A general theory of this sensitivity and a simple model for gravity detection is presented. The difference between systems in thermodynamic equilibrium and those that are far from equilibrium is also discussed. |
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