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Les milieux périodiques présentent des propriétés intéressantes dans un grand nombre d'applications (les cristaux photoniques en optique, les matériaux composites en mécanique,...). Dans ces applications, on rencontre souvent ces milieux présentant des défauts localisés, c'est-à-dire des milieux qui diffèrent de milieux périodiques dans des régions bornées. Il nous semble intéressant de proposer des méthodes mathématiques et numériques nouvelles spécifiques au traitement des structures périodiques de grande taille, pouvant présenter des défauts localisés. Les caractéristiques du problème rendant très souvent les méthodes d'homogénéisation inapplicables, l'idée est d'exploiter la structure particulière des milieux périodiques pour restreindre les calculs au voisinage du défaut. Nous avons donc approfondi la question de trouver des conditions aux bords parfaitement transparentes. C'est pourquoi nous avons cherché à généraliser les techniques de conditions transparentes non locales, de type Neumann-to-Dirichlet, bien établies pour les milieux homogènes à l'extérieur de la perturbation. La difficulté est que lorsque le milieu extérieur est homogène, on ne dispose plus d'une représentation explicite de la solution. Nous traitons successivement trois situations de difficulté croissante : le cas monodimensionnel qui est un cas classique mais dont l'étude a des vertus pédagogiques, le problème du guide périodique localement perturbé et le problème plus complexe du milieu périodique dans les deux dimensions. Pour chaque situation, la démarche est la même : elle consiste tout d'abord à résoudre le problème pour un milieu absorbant puis pour un milieu non absorbant par absorption limite. Nous pouvons alors montrer que les opérateurs DtN peuvent être caractérisés en utilisant la solution de problèmes de cellule locaux, l'utilisation d'outils mathématiques tels que la Transformée de Floquet-Bloch et la solution d'équations quadratiques et linéaires à valeurs et inconnus opérateurs.

Orientador: Ricardo Egydio de Carvalho / Banca: Ana Paula Mijolaro / Banca: Luiz Antônio Barreiro / Resumo: De maneira geral, o comportamento dinâmico de sistemas não lineares é caracterizado pela imprevisibilidade e extrema sensibilidade às condições iniciais e aos parâmetros do sistema. A sensibilidade dessas condições pode ser analisada a partir dos expoentes de Lyapunov, quando são consideradas órbitas infinitesimalmente próximas. O mapa escolhido para análise é o modelo denominado "Mapa padrão não - twist dissipativo labiríntico", que apresenta as chamadas curvas shearless. O estudo desenvolvido analisa esse sistema com a introdução de dissipação e com parâmetros de perturbação variáveis na presença de três curvas shearless. O objetivo é compreender a evolução da dinâmica destas curvas no espaço de fase e no diagrama de Lyapunov a fim de caracterizar qual shearless é mais robusta frente á variação dos parâmetros de dissipação e perturbação / Abstract: In general, the dynamical behavior of non-linear systems is characterized by unpredictability and extreme sensibility to the initial conditions and to the parameters of the system. The sensitivity of these conditions can be analyzed from the Lyapunov exponents, when infinitesimally close orbits are considered. The map we have chosen for analysis is the model denoted as "Labyrinthic non-twist standard map", which presents the so-called "shearless" curves. The present study analyzes this system with the introduction of dissipation and with changeable parameters of perturbation in the presence of three shearless curves. The objective is to understand the evolution of the dynamics of the curves in the phase space and in the diagram of Lyapunov in order to characterize which shearless is more robust under the variation of both parameters, dissipation and perturbation / Mestre

Neste trabalho é abordado o exemplo proposto por Nicolai Haydn, no qual é dado um exemplo de um deslocamento onde é possível construir in nitas medidas de máxima entropia, além de in nitos estados de equilíbrio. / In this work, we present the example shown by Nicolai Haydn, which is given by subshift where is possible to show in nity measures of maximal entropy, besides in nitely many distinct equilibrium states.

A quantum system which evolves in time while interacting with an external environ- ment is said to be an open quantum system (OQS), and the influence of the environment on the unperturbed unitary evolution of the system generally leads to non-unitary dynamics. This kind of open system dynamical evolution has been typically modeled by a Standard Prescription (SP) which assumes that the state of the OQS is initially uncorrelated with the environment state. It is here shown that when a minimal set of physically motivated assumptions are adopted, not only does there exist constraints on the reduced dynamics of an OQS such that this SP does not always accurately describe the possible initial cor- relations existing between the OQS and environment, but such initial correlations, and even entanglement, can be witnessed when observing a particular class of reduced state transformations termed purity extractions are observed. Furthermore, as part of a more fundamental investigation to better understand the minimal set of assumptions required to formulate well defined reduced dynamical quantum maps, it is demonstrated that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the set of initial reduced states and the set of admissible initial system-environment composite states when G-consistency is enforced. Given the discussions surrounding the requirement of complete positivity and the reliance on the SP, the results presented here may well be found valuable for determining the ba- sic properties of reduced dynamical maps, and when restrictions on the OQS dynamics naturally emerge.