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Spacing distributions for rhombus billiards

chao-dyn 2007-05-23 v1 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We show that the spacing distributions of rational rhombus billiards fall in a family of universality classes distinctly different from the Wigner-Dyson family of random matrix theory and the Poisson distribution. Some of the distributions find explanation in a recent work of Bogomolny, Gerland and Schmit. For the irrational billiards, despite ergodicity, we get the same distributions for the examples considered - once again, distinct from the Wigner-Dyson distributions. All results are obtained numerically by a method that allows us to reach very high energies.

Cite

@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9807022,
  title  = {Spacing distributions for rhombus billiards},
  author = {B. Gremaud and S. R. Jain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9807022},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 pages (revtex) + 5 figures

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