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For a symmetric Hamiltonian system, lower bounds for the number of relative equilibria surrounding stable and formally unstable relative equilibria on nearby energy levels are given.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juan-Pablo Ortega , Tudor S. Ratiu

We study the collision dynamics of a spinning cue ball approaching a static object ball with equal mass on a plane, common in billiards. While typical collisions in billiards are nearly perfectly elastic, with a restitution coefficient…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Hyeong-Chan Kim

We consider the radially vibrating spherical quantum billiard as a representative example of vibrating quantum billiards. We derive necessary conditions for quantum chaos in $d$-term superposition states. These conditions are symmetry…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mason A. Porter , Richard L. Liboff

The geometry of a billiard boundary fundamentally governs its dynamics, ranging from integrable to mixed and fully chaotic regimes. Bean- and peanut-shaped billiards have varying curvature with both focusing and defocusing walls without a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-07 Pranaya Pratik Das , Tanmayee Patra , Biplab Ganguli

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

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

Relativistic systems of particles interacting pairwise at a distance (interactions not mediated by fields) in flat spacetime are studied. It is assumed that the interactions propagate at the speed of light in vacuum and that all masses are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Domingo J. Louis-Martinez

A very intuitive description of nucleus-nucleus collision phenomena is provided by the relativistic fluid dynamics. We consider a 1+1 dimensional relativistic imperfect fluid flow to approximate the high energy heavy ion collision. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C Alexa , D Vrinceanu

The classical and quantum behavior of a particle inside a square box under the influence of the gravitational field is studied. Detailed calculations on periodic orbits, probability densities as well as expectation values and uncertainties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Daniel Jaud

In this work, we study a family of fully chaotic billiards that exhibits only rotational symmetries, whose geometry is based on the $C_3$ symmetry system proposed by Leyvraz, Schmit, and Seligman~(LSS) in 1996. Quantum spectral analyses are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-28 R. B. do Carmo , T. Araújo Lima

We consider systems of n particles that move with constant velocity between collisions. Their total momentum but not necessarily their kinetic energy is preserved at collisions. As there are no further constraints, these systems are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Andreas Knauf , Manuel Quaschner

The thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for compact structures composed by mass varying particles are discussed assuming that the so-called dynamical mass behaves like an additional extensive thermodynamic degree of freedom. It then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-07 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

We consider the bosonic fields which describe a particle which may exist in states with spins one and zero with different masses. All the linearly independent solutions of the equation for a free particle are obtained in the form of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. I. Kruglov

In the present work we explore the concept of solitary wave billiards. I.e., instead of a point particle, we examine a solitary wave in an enclosed region and explore its collision with the boundaries and the resulting trajectories in cases…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-04-12 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Zhang

We study an interacting particle system of a finite number of labelled particles on the integer lattice, in which particles have intrinsic masses and left/right jump rates. If a particle is the minimal-label particle at its site when it…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Mikhail Menshikov , Serguei Popov , Andrew Wade

The stability properties of the classical trajectories of charged particles are investigated in a two dimensional stadium-shaped inverse magnetic domain, where the magnetic field is zero inside the stadium domain and constant outside. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zoltán Vörös , Tamás Tasnádi , József Cserti , Péter Pollner

We study the non-equilibrium steady-states of a one-dimensional ($1D1V$) fluid in a finite space region of length $L$. Particles interact among themselves by multi-particle collisions and are in contact with two thermal-wall heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-08 Stefano Lepri , Guido Ciraolo , Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Jamie Gunn , Roberto Livi

Have you ever played or watched a game of pool? If so, you have already seen a billiard system in action. In mathematics and physics, a billiard system describes a ball that moves in straight lines and bounces off walls. Despite these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Weiqi Chu , Matthew Dobson

We call internal-wave billiard the dynamical system of a point particle that moves freely inside a planar domain (the table) and is reflected by its boundary according to this rule: reflections are standard Fresnel reflections but with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Marco Lenci , Claudio Bonanno , Giampaolo Cristadoro

The internal space-time symmetries of relativistic particles are dictated by Wigner's little groups. The $O(3)$-like little group for a massive particle at rest and the $E(2)$-like little group of a massless particle are two different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Y. S. Kim