title: Diffusion in a periodically driven damped and undamped pendulum.
abstract: We study the diffusion process in a periodically driven damped and undamped pendulum. The effect of angular frequency omega of the external periodic force on the diffusion process is investigated. We show the occurrence of normal and anomalous diffusions in the undamped system. In the presence of damping, normal chaotic diffusion is found. Near certain bifurcation points, the phase velocity is found to be intermittent and the diffusion coefficient is found to exhibit power-law divergence. We argue that the divergence of the diffusion coefficient near the bifurcation points is similar to that of the average laminar lengths near them. The effect of bias on the dynamics is also discussed.
authors: Reactor Physics Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, Tamil Nadu, India.
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