Does chaos means long term numerical simulations useless?

wdlang
Messages
306
Reaction score
0
i am now reading a prl paper

the authors used numerical simulations to study a nonlinear system

in some parameters, the authors state that system enters into chaos

My numerical simulations are the same as that of the authors

but in the chaos regime, my simulations are quite different from theirs.

I guess in the chaos regime, numerical simulations are useless

Due to numerical errors, the simulation results in the long term are not valid at all.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
wdlang said:
i am now reading a prl paper

the authors used numerical simulations to study a nonlinear system

in some parameters, the authors state that system enters into chaos

My numerical simulations are the same as that of the authors

but in the chaos regime, my simulations are quite different from theirs.

I guess in the chaos regime, numerical simulations are useless

Due to numerical errors, the simulation results in the long term are not valid at all.

and actually, it is almost impossible to make correct simulations
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
Back
Top