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We study the quantum fermionic billiard defined by the dynamics of a quantized supersymmetric squashed three-sphere (Bianchi IX cosmological model within D=4 simple supergravity). The quantization of the homogeneous gravitino field leads to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Thibault Damour , Philippe Spindel

The methods of the high energy semiclassical quantization in the rational polygon billiards used in our earlier papers are generalized to an arbitrary rational multi-connected polygon billiards i.e. to the billiards which is a rational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Stefan Giller

It is well-known that billiards in polygons cannot be chaotic (hyperbolic). Particularly Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of any polygonal billiard is zero. We consider physical polygonal billiards where a moving particle is a hard disc rather than…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Hassan Attarchi , Leonid A. Bunimovich

In this work we study the geometrical properties of the high-lying eigenfunctions (200,000 and above) which are deep in the semiclassical regime. The system we are analyzing is the billiard system inside the region defined by the quadratic…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Baowen Li , Marko Robnik

In this article we construct L--A representations of geodesic flows on quadrics and of billiard problems within ellipsoids in the pseudo--Euclidean spaces. A geometric interpretation of the integrability analogous to the classical Chasles…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2014-09-05 Bozidar Jovanovic , Vladimir Jovanovic

Dynamical billiards, or the behavior of a particle traveling in a planar region $D$ undergoing elastic collisions with the boundary, has been extensively studied and is used to model many physical phenomena such as a Boltzmann gas. Of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Otto Vaughn Osterman

In this text we study billiards on ovals and investigate some consequences of a rotational symmetry of the boundary on the dynamics. As it simplifies some calculations, the symmetry helps to obtain the results. We focus on periodic orbits…

We consider classical billiards on surfaces of constant curvature, where the charged billiard ball is exposed to a homogeneous, stationary magnetic field perpendicular to the surface. We establish sufficient conditions for hyperbolicity of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Boris Gutkin

We introduce a new class of billiard systems in the plane, with boundaries formed by finitely many arcs of confocal conics such that they contain some reflex angles. Fundamental dynamical, topological, geometric, and arithmetic properties…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-06-04 Vladimir Dragović , Milena Radnović

We prove that there exists a residual set of (non-rational) polygons such the billiard flow is weakly mixing with respect to the Liouville measure (on the unit tangent bundle to the billiard). This follows, via a Baire category argument,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Jon Chaika , Giovanni Forni

A polygon is called rational if the angle between each pair of sides is a rational multiple of $\pi.$ The main theorem we will prove is Theorem 1: For rational polygons, periodic points of the billiard flow are dense in the phase space of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Michael Boshernitzan , G. A. Galperin , Tyll Krüger , Serge Troubetzkoy

We study geometry of confocal quadrics in pseudo-Euclidean spaces of an arbitrary dimension $d$ and any signature, and related billiard dynamics. The goal is to give a complete description of periodic billiard trajectories within…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Vladimir Dragovic , Milena Radnovic

The structure of the semiclassical trace formula can be used to construct a quasi-classical evolution operator whose spectrum has a one-to-one correspondence with the semiclassical quantum spectrum. We illustrate this for marginally…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Debabrata Biswas

We study combinatorics of billiard partitions which arose recently in the description of periodic trajectories of ellipsoidal billiards in d-dimensional Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces. Such partitions uniquely codify the sets of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 George E. Andrews , Vladimir Dragovic , Milena Radnovic

We construct an autonomous chaotic Hamiltonian ratchet as a channel billiard subdivided by equidistant walls attached perpendicularly to one side of the channel, leaving an opening on the opposite side. A static homogeneous magnetic field…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-03 Walter Acevedo , Thomas Dittrich

Periodic orbits are the central ingredients of modern semiclassical theories and corrections to these are generally non-classical in origin. We show here that for the class of generic polygonal billiards, the corrections are predominantly…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Debabrata Biswas

We introduce a class of convex, higher-dimensional billiard models which generalise stadium billiards. These models correspond to the free motion of a point-particle in a region bounded by cylinders cut by planes. They are motivated by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-07 Thomas Gilbert , David P. Sanders

Light propagation on a two-dimensional curved surface embedded in a three-dimensional space has attracted increasing attention as an analog model of four-dimensional curved spacetime in laboratory. Despite recent developments in modern…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Chenni Xu , Itzhack Dana , Li-Gang Wang , Patrick Sebbah

We experimentally studied evolution of quasi-eigenmodes as classical dynamics undergoing a transition from being regular to chaotic in open quantum billiards. In a deformation-variable microcavity we traced all high-Q cavity modes in a wide…

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