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In this paper, we are interested in the speed of convergence of the stochastic billiard evolving in a convex set K. This process can be described as follows: a particle moves at unit speed inside the set K until it hits the boundary, and is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Ninon Fétique

We study the dissipative dynamics of a one-dimensional bosonic system described in terms of the bipartite Bose-Hubbard model with alternating gain and loss. This model exhibits the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry under some specific conditions and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-07 Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Doru Sticlet , Balázs Dóra , Gergely Zaránd

The dynamics of a time-dependent stadium-like billiard are studied by a four dimensional nonlinear mapping. We have shown that even without any dissipation, the particle experiences a decrease on its velocity. Such condition is related with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-22 André L. P. Livorati , Alexander Loskutov , Edson D. Leonel

We report a dynamical phase transition from integrability to non-integrability in a simple oval-like billiard with boundary $R(\theta)=1+\epsilon\cos(p\theta)$. For $\epsilon=0$, the phase space is {\it foliated} by invariant curves…

In this work we study a two species driven diffusive system with open boundaries that exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking in one dimension. In a symmetry broken state the currents of the two species are not equal, although the dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Clincy , M. R. Evans , D. Mukamel

We demonstrate the presence of parity-time (PT) symmetry for the non-Hermitian two-state Hamiltonian of a dissipative microwave billiard in the vicinity of an exceptional point (EP). The shape of the billiard depends on two parameters. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 S. Bittner , B. Dietz , U. Guenther , H. L. Harney , M. Miski-Oglu , A. Richter , F. Schaefer

We study the probability distribution of a current flowing through a diffusive system connected to a pair of reservoirs at its two ends. Sufficient conditions for the occurrence of a host of possible phase transitions both in and out of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-25 Yongjoo Baek , Yariv Kafri , Vivien Lecomte

We study a two-particle circular billiard containing two finite-size circular particles that collide elastically with the billiard boundary and with each other. Such a two-particle circular billiard provides a clean example of an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-04 Sandra Ranković , Mason A. Porter

We present a theory characterizing the phases emerging as a consequence of continuous symmetry-breaking in quantum and classical systems. In symmetry-breaking phases, dynamics is restricted due to the existence of a set of conserved charges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ángel L. Corps , Jorge Dukelsky , Armando Relaño

Deterministic and stochastic coupled oscillators with inertia are studied on the rectangular lattice under the shear-velocity boundary condition. Our coupled oscillator model exhibits various nontrivial phenomena and there are various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-05 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

We explore the dynamical evolution of an ensemble of non-interacting particles propagating freely in an elliptical billiard with harmonically driven boundaries. The existence of Fermi acceleration is shown thereby refuting the established…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-05-25 Florian Lenz , Fotis K. Diakonos , Peter Schmelcher

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

Systems of pinned billiard balls serve as simplified models of collisions, where all particles remain fixed in their positions while their (pseudo-)velocities evolve in accordance with the laws of conservation of energy and momentum. For…

It has been recently suggested that a totally asymmetric exclusion process with two species on an open chain could exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking in some range of the parameters defining its dynamics. The symmetry breaking is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Godreche , J. M. Luck , M. R. Evans , D. Mukamel , S. Sandow , E. R. Speer

Dynamical focusing of ensembles of neutral particles in energy and configuration space has been demonstrated recently [C. Petri et al. 2010, Phys. Rev. E (R) {\bf 82}, 035204] using time-dependent elliptical billiards. The interplay of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-12 Benno Liebchen , Christoph Petri , Mario Krizanac , Peter Schmelcher

In standard (mathematical) billiards a point particle moves uniformly in a billiard table with elastic reflections off the boundary. We show that in transition from mathematical billiards to physical billiards, where a finite size hard…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-23 L. A. Bunimovich

In this work, we perform a statistical study on Dirac Billiards in the extreme quantum limit (a single open channel on the leads). Our numerical analysis uses a large ensemble of random matrices and demonstrates the preponderant role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 A. J. Nascimento Júnior , M. S. M. Barros , J. G. G. S. Ramos , A. L. R. Barbosa

Recently, several studies involving open quantum systems which possess a strong symmetry have observed that every individual trajectory in the Monte Carlo unravelling of the master equation will dynamically select a specific symmetry sector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Joseph Tindall , Dieter Jaksch , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz

The configuration manifold $M$ of a mechanical system consisting of two unconstrained rigid bodies in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 1$, is a manifold with boundary (typically with singularities.) A complete description of the system requires…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Christopher Cox , Renato Feres , Will Ward

We investigate the influence of boundaries and spatial nonreciprocity on nonequilibrium driven-dissipative phase transitions. We focus on a one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear bosons described by a Lindblad master equation, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Ron Belyansky , Cheyne Weis , Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Aashish A. Clerk