Adiabatic dynamics of one-dimensional classical Hamiltonian dissipative systems

Abstract

We give an example of a simple mechanical system described by the generalized harmonic oscillator equation, which is a basic model in discussion of the adiabatic dynamics and geometric phase. This system is a linearized plane pendulum with the slowly varying mass and length of string and the suspension point moving at a slowly varying speed, the simplest system with broken $T$-invariance. The paradoxical character of the presented results is that the same Hamiltonian system, the generalized harmonic oscillator in our case, is canonically equivalent to two different systems: the usual plane mathematical pendulum and the damped harmonic oscillator. This once again supports the important mathematical conclusion, not widely accepted in physical community, of no difference between the dissipative and Hamiltonian 1D systems, which stems from the Sonin theorem that any Newtonian second order differential equation with a friction of general nature may be presented in the form of the Lagrange equation.