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Oscillating mushrooms: adiabatic theory for a non-ergodic system

Dynamical Systems 2014-12-03 v2

Abstract

Can elliptic islands contribute to sustained energy growth as parameters of a Hamiltonian system slowly vary with time? In this paper we show that a mushroom billiard with a periodically oscillating boundary accelerates the particle inside it exponentially fast. We provide an estimate for the rate of acceleration. Our numerical experiments confirms the theory. We suggest that a similar mechanism applies to general systems with mixed phase space.

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@article{arxiv.1305.2624,
  title  = {Oscillating mushrooms: adiabatic theory for a non-ergodic system},
  author = {V. Gelfreich and V. Rom-Kedar and D. Turaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2624},
  year   = {2014}
}

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