Ethan T. Custodio, Sulimon Sattari, and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Computing classical escape rates from periodic orbits in chaotic hydrogen”, CHAOS 35, 053124 (2025). Published Version.
Eric Brown, Kevin A. Mitchell, Alice Nasto, Athanasios Athanassiadis, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Strain stiffening due to stretching of entangled particles in random packings of granular materials”, Phys. Rev. E 111, 025408 (2025). Published Version.
Taylor J. Whitney and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Ballistic to Diffusive Transition for Swimmers in a Periodic Vortex Array”, Physical Review E 110, 034203 (2024). Published Version.
Fereshteh L. Memarian, Derek Hammar, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir, Mark Elias, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Linda S. Hirst, “Controlling chaos: Periodic defect braiding in active nematics confined to a cardioid”, Physical Review Letters 132, 228301 (2024). Published Version.
Nghia Le, Casey M. Miller, Julianna S. Detrick, Cameron R. Lodi, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Thomas H. Solomon, “Barriers and chutes for mixing of active particles in a vortex chain flow”, Physical Review Fluids 9, 054501 (2024). Published Version.
Kevin A. Mitchell, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir, Kevin Geumhan, Spencer A. Smith, Brandon Klein, and Daniel A. Beller, “Maximally mixing active nematics”, Physical Review E 109, 014606 (2024). Published Version.
Helena Yoest, John Buggeln, Minh Doan, Payton Johnson, Simon A. Berman, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Thomas H. Solomon, “Barriers impeding active mixing of swimming microbes in a hyperbolic flow”, Frontiers in Physics 10, 861616 (2022). Published Version.
Matea Santiago, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Shilpa Khatri, “Numerical method for modeling photosynthesis of algae on pulsing soft corals”, Physical Review Fluids 7, 033102 (2022). Published Version.
Simon A. Berman, Kyle S. Ferguson, Nathaniel Bizzak, Thomas H. Solomon, and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Noise-induced aggregation of swimmers in the Kolmogorov flow”, Frontiers in Physics 9, 816663 (2022). Published Version.
Simon A. Berman and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Swimmer dynamics in externally driven fluid flows: The role of noise”, Physical Review Fluids 7, 014501 (2022). Published Version.
Simon A. Berman, John Buggeln, David A. Brantley, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Thomas H. Solomon, “Transport barriers to self-propelled particles in fluid flows”, Physical Review Fluids 6, L012501 (2021). Published Version.
Kevin A. Mitchell, Amanda J. Tan, Jorge Arteaga, and Linda S. Hirst, “Fractal generation in a two-dimensional active-nematic fluid”, Chaos 31, 073125 (2021). Published Version.
Joshua G. Arenson, Kevin A. Mitchell, “Topological dynamics of volume-preserving maps without an equatorial heteroclinic curve”, Physica D 424, 132925 (2021). Published Version.
Simon A. Berman and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Trapping of Swimmers in a Vortex Lattice”, Chaos 30, 063121 (2020). Published version. Published Version Preprint
Pieter Collins and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Duality in surface dynamics”, J. Nonlinear Sci. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-019-09549-0. Published version
Amanda J. Tan, Eric Roberts, Spencer A. Smith, Ulyses Alverado Olvera, Jorge Arteaga, Sam Fortini, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Linda S. Hirst, “Topological chaos in active nematics”, Nature Physics 15 (2019). Published version.
Eric Roberts, Suzanne Sindi, Spencer Smith, and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Introducing E-tec: Ensemble-based Topological Entropy Calculation”, Chaos 29, 013124 (2019). Published version. Preprint.
Korana Burke and Kevin A. Mitchell, “A Surface of Section for Hydrogen in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields”, Mathematics 6, 185 (2018). Published version.
Minh Doan, JJ Simons, Katherine Lilienthal, Kevin Mitchell, and Tom Solomon, “Barriers to front propagation in laminar, three-dimensional fluid flows”, Phys. Rev. E 97, 033111 (2018). Published version. Preprint.
Sulimon Sattari and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Using periodic orbits to compute chaotic transport rates between resonance zones”, Chaos 27, 113104 (2017). Published version. Preprint.
Rory A. Locke, John R. Mahoney, and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Mode-locking in advection-reaction-diffusion systems: an invariant manifold perspective”, Chaos 28, 013129 (2017). Published version. Preprint.
Spencer A. Smith, Joshua Arenson, Eric Roberts, Suzanne Sindi, and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Topological Chaos in a Three-Dimensional Spherical Fluid Vortex”, Europhysics Letters 117, 60005 (2017). Published version Preprint.
Bryan Maelfeyt, Spencer A. Smith, and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Using Invariant Manifolds to Construct Symbolic Dynamics for Three-Dimensional Volume-Preserving Maps”, SIADS 16, 729 (2017). Published version.
S. Sattari, Q. Chen, and K. A. Mitchell, “Using heteroclinic orbits to quantify topological entropy in fluid flows,” CHAOS 26, 033112 (2016). Publilshed version.
J. R. Mahoney, J. Li, C. Boyer, T. Solomon, and K. A. Mitchell, “Frozen reaction fronts in steady flows: a burning-invariant-manifold perspective,” Physical Review E 92, 063005 (2015). Journal version
J. R. Mahoney and K. A. Mitchell, “Finite-time barriers to front propagation in two-dimensional fluid flows,” Chaos 25, 087404 (2015). Journal version
M. K. Ivory, T. A. Byrd, A. J. Pyle, K. K. Das, K. A. Mitchell, A. Aubin, J. B. Delos, “Ballistic atom pumps,” Physical Review A 90, 023602 (2014). Journal version
J. R. Mahoney and K. A. Mitchell, “A turnstile mechanism for fronts propagating in fluid flows,” Chaos 23, 043106 (2013). Journal version
K. Burke, K. A. Mitchell, S. Ye, and F. B. Dunning, “Chaotic Ionization of a Stationary Electron State via a Phase Space Turnstile,” Physical Review A 88, 013408 (2013). Journal version
Kevin A. Mitchell and John R. Mahoney, “Invariant manifolds and the geometry of front propagation in fluid flows”, Chaos 22, 037104 (2012). Journal version,
T. A. Byrd, M. K. Ivory, A. J. Pyle, S. Aubin, K. A. Mitchell, J. B. Delos, K. K. Das (2012). “Scattering by an oscillating barrier: Quantum, classical, and semiclassical comparison,” Physical Review A 86, 013622 (2012). Journal version
Kevin A. Mitchell, “Partitioning two-dimensional mixed phase spaces”, Physica D 241, 1718 (2012). Journal version, Preprint
J. Mahoney, D. Bargteil, M. Kingsbury, K. A. Mitchell, T. Solomon, “Invariant barriers to reactive front propagation in fluid flows,” Europhysics Letters 98, 44005 (2012). Journal version
K. A. Mitchell, “Periodic orbits and transport in mixed phase spaces”, In M. Robnik, V. Romanovski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Summer School/Conference; American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings. “Let’s Face Chaos through Nonlinear Dynamics”, 1468, pp. 268-275 (2012).
K. Burke, K. A. Mitchell, B. Wyker, S. Ye, F. B. Dunning, “Demonstration of Turnstiles as a Chaotic Ionization Mechanism in Rydberg Atoms”, Physical Review Letters 107, 113002 (2011).
Kevin A. Mitchell and Boaz Ilan, “Nonlinear enhancement of the fractal structure in the escape dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates”, Phys. Rev. A 80, 043406 (2009).
Korana Burke and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Chaotic ionization of a Rydberg atom subjected to alternating kicks: Role of phase space turnstiles”, Phys. Rev. A 80, 033416 (2009).
K. A. Mitchell, “The topology of nested homoclinic and heteroclinic tangles”, Physica D 238, 737 (2009).
K. A. Mitchell and D. A. Steck, “Fractal templates in the escape dynamics of trapped ultracold atoms”, Phys. Rev. A 76, 031403 (2007).
K. A. Mitchell and J. B. Delos, “The structure of ionizing electron trajectories for hydrogen in parallel fields”, Physica D 229, 9 (2007).
R. Winston, A. D. Kim, and K. A. Mitchell, “Measuring radiance: a paradigm for coherence optics in six-dimensional phase space”, J. Mod. Opt. 53, 2419 (2006).
K. A. Mitchell and J. B. Delos, “A new topological technique for characterizing homoclinic tangles”, Physica D 221, 170 (2006).
P. Hansen, K. A. Mitchell, and J. B. Delos, “Escape of trajectories from a vase-shaped cavity”, Phys. Rev. E 73, 066226 (2006).
K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, B. Tighe, A. Flower, and J. B. Delos, “Analysis of Chaos-Induced Pulse Trains in the Ionization of Hydrogen”, Phys. Rev. A 70, 043407 (2004). PDF
K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, B. Tighe, A. Flower, and J. B. Delos, “Chaos-Induced Pulse Trains in the Ionization of Hydrogen”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 073001 (2004). PDF
K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, B. Tighe, S. K. Knudson, and J. B. Delos, “Geometry and Topology of Escape I: Epistrophes”, Chaos 13, 880 (2003). PDF
K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, S. K. Knudson, and J. B. Delos, “Geometry and Topology of Escape II: Homotopic Lobe Dynamics”, Chaos 13, 892 (2003). PDF
Robert G. Littlejohn, Matthew Cargo, Tucker Carrington, Jr., Kevin A. Mitchell, and Bill Poirier, “A general framework for discrete variable representation basis sets”, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 8691 (2002). PDF.
Robert G. Littlejohn and Kevin A. Mitchell, “Gauge Theory of Small Vibrations in Polyatomic Molecules” in Geometry, Dynamics, and Mechanics, eds. P. Newton, P. Holmes, A. Weinstein (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002). PDF.
Kevin A. Mitchell, “Gauge fields and extrapotentials in constrained quantum systems”, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 042112/1-20 (2001). PDF.
Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, “Boundary conditions on internal three-body wave functions”, Phys. Rev. A 61, 042502/1-16 (2000). PDF.
Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, “Kinematic orbits and the structure of the internal space for systems of five or more bodies”, J. Phys. A 33, 1395 (2000). PDF.
Robert G. Littlejohn, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Vincenzo Aquilanti, “Quantum dynamics of kinematic invariants in tetra- and polyatomic systems”, PCCP 1, 1259 (1999). PDF.
Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, “The rovibrational kinetic energy for complexes of rigid molecules”, Mol. Phys. 96, 1305 (1999). PDF.
Robert G. Littlejohn, Kevin A. Mitchell, Vincenzo Aquilanti, and Simona Cavalli, “Body frames and frame singularities for three-atom systems”, Phys. Rev. A 58, 3705 (1998). PDF.
Robert G. Littlejohn, Kevin A. Mitchell, Matthias Reinsch, Vincenzo Aquilanti, and Simona Cavalli, “Internal spaces, kinematic rotations, and body frames for four-atom systems”, Phys. Rev. A 58, 3718 (1998). PDF.
Kevin A. Mitchell and Robert G. Littlejohn, “Derivation of planar three-body hyperspherical harmonics from monopole harmonics”, Phys. Rev. A 56, 83 (1997). PDF.