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The billiard problem concerns a point particle moving freely in a region of the horizontal plane bounded by a closed curve $\Gamma$, and reflected at each impact with $\Gamma$. The region is called a `billiard', and the reflections are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Peter Lynch

The time dependence of the survival probability, S(t), is determined for diffusing particles in two dimensions which are also driven by a random unidirectional zero-mean velocity field, v_x(y). For a semi-infinite system with unbounded y…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sidney Redner

At each point of a Poisson point process of intensity $\lambda$ in the hyperbolic place, center a ball of bounded random radius. Consider the probability $P_r$ that from a fixed point, there is some direction in which one can reach distance…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-17 Pierre Calka , Johan Tykesson

We calculate the survival probability of a stationary target in one dimension surrounded by diffusive or subdiffusive traps of time-dependent density. The survival probability of a target in the presence of traps of constant density is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Yuste , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo , Katja Lindenberg

In this note we establish the existence of a (n+1)-periodic billiard trajectory inside an n-dimensional regular simplex in the hyperbolic space, which hits the interior of every facet exactly once.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Oded Badt , Yaron Ostrover

We call a system bouncing ball billiard if it consists of a particle that is subjected to a constant vertical force and bounces inelastically on a one-dimendional vibrating periodically corrugated floor. Here we choose circular scatterers…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Matyas , R. Klages

An annular billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle moves freely in a disk except for elastic collisions with the boundary, and also a circular scatterer in the interior of the disk. We investigate stability properties of some…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Carl P. Dettmann , Vitaly Fain

A gambler with an initial fortune $x$ starts by betting a dollar, then doubles the bet after every win and halves the bet after every loss. Let $p\in (0,1)$ be the probability of winning for each round. We show that the gambler survives…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Aditya Guha Roy , Yuval Peres , Shuo Qin , Junchi Zuo

We construct semi-infinite billiard domains which reverse the direction of most incoming particles. We prove that almost all particles will leave the open billiard domain after a finite number of reflections. Moreover, with high probability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Pavel Bachurin , Konstantin Khanin , Jens Marklof , Alexander Plakhov

We consider time-dependence of dynamical transport, following a recent study of the stadium billiard in which classical transmission and reflection probabilities were shown to exhibit exponential or algebraic decay depending on the choice…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-01-06 Carl P. Dettmann , Edson D. Leonel

In this paper we show that, under certain generic conditions, billiards on ovals have only a finite number of periodic orbits, for each period, all non-degenerate and at least one of them is hyperbolic. Moreover, the invariant curves of two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. J. Dias Carneiro , S. Oliffson Kamphorst , S. Pinto-de-Carvalho

We define a new class of plane billiards - the `pensive billiard' - in which the billiard ball travels along the boundary for some distance depending on the incidence angle before reflecting, while preserving the billiard rule of equality…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Theodore D. Drivas , Daniil Glukhovskiy , Boris Khesin

We study billiard dynamics inside an ellipse for which the axes lengths are changed periodically in time and an $O(\delta)$-small quartic polynomial deformation is added to the boundary. In this situation the energy of the particle in the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Carl P. Dettmann , Vitaly Fain , Dmitry Turaev

Polygonal billiards exhibit a rich and complex dynamical behavior. In recent years polygonal billiards have attracted great attention due to their application in the understanding of anomalous transport, but also at the fundamental level,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-14 Jordan Orchard , Federico Frascoli , Lamberto Rondoni , Carlos Mejía-Monasterio

We present a theoretical study of the survival probability of a state initially prepared in the one-particle sector of a multi-qubit system. The motivation for our work is the ongoing laboratory development of multi-qubit platforms based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Bayan Karimi , Jukka Pekola

We discuss the interplay between the piece-line regular and vertex-angle singular boundary effects, related to integrability and chaotic features in rational polygonal billiards. The approach to controversial issue of regular and irregular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Valery B. Kokshenev

H${\acute{e}}$non [8] used an inclined billiard to investigate aspects of chaotic scattering which occur in satellite encounters and in other situations. His model consisted of a piecewise mapping which described the motion of a point…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-26 Alan Roy , Nikolaos Georgakarakos

In this paper, by using our improved plane wave decomposition method, we study the scars in the eigenfunctions of the stadium billiard from very low state to as high as about the one millionth state. In the systematic searching for scars of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Baowen Li , Bambi Hu

We perform a detailed numerical study of diffusion in the $\varepsilon$ stadium of Bunimovich, and propose an empirical model of the local and global diffusion for various values of $\varepsilon$ with the following conclusions: (i) the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-14 Črt Lozej , Marko Robnik

We study the billiard dynamics in annular tables between two excentric circles. As the center and the radius of the inner circle change, a two parameters map is defined by the first return of trajectories to the obstacle. We obtain an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-24 R. B. Batista , M. J. Dias Carneiro , S. Oliffson Kamphorst