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We investigate dynamical properties of chaotic trajectories in mushroom billiards. These billiards present a well-defined simple border between a single regular region and a single chaotic component. We find that the stickiness of chaotic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo G. Altmann , Adilson E. Motter , Holger Kantz

Here we are concerned with a special issue of billiard invisibility, where a bounded set with a piecewise smooth boundary in Euclidean space is identified with a body with mirror surface, and the billiard in the complement of the set is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Alexander Plakhov , Vera Roshchina

We present an efficient method to solve scattering problems in two-dimensional open billiards with two leads and a complicated scattering region. The basic idea is to transform the scattering region to a rectangle, which will lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gursoy B. Akguc , Thomas H. Seligman

Quantum walks are at present an active field of study in mathematics, with important applications in quantum information and statistical physics. In this paper, we determine the influence of basic chaotic features on the walker behavior.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 C. Alonso-Lobo , Gabriel G. Carlo , F. Borondo

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

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

We propose a model of Sinai billiards with moving scatterers, in which the locations and shapes of the scatterers may change by small amounts between collisions. Our main result is the exponential loss of memory of initial data at uniform…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Mikko Stenlund , Lai-Sang Young , Hongkun Zhang

We explore the effects of the proximity to a superconductor on the level density of a billiard for the two extreme cases that the classical motion in the billiard is chaotic or integrable. In zero magnetic field and for a uniform phase in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-08 J. A. Melsen , P. W. Brouwer , K. M. Frahm , C. W. J. Beenakker

We consider the motion of two massive particles along a straight line. A lighter particle bounces back and forth between a heavier particle and a stationary wall, with all collisions being ideally elastic. It is known that if the lighter…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Joshua Skinner , Anatoly Neishtadt

In this paper, we continue to study billiards inside cones $K\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ over strictly convex closed $C^3$ manifolds with non-degenerate second fundamental form. Recently we proved that the billiard is superintegrable, i.e., the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Andrey E. Mironov , Siyao Yin

A short overview of the billiard approach for cosmological-type models with n Einstein factor-spaces is presented. We start with the billiard representation for pseudo-Euclidean Toda-like systems of cosmological origin. Then we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 V. D. Ivashchuk , V. N. Melnikov

We present numerical and experimental results for the development of islands of stability in atom-optics billiards with soft walls. As the walls are soften, stable regions appear near singular periodic trajectories in converging (focusing)…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ariel Kaplan , Nir Friedman , Mikkel Andersen , Nir Davidson

We study stochastic billiards in infinite planar domains with curvilinear boundaries: that is, piecewise deterministic motion with randomness introduced via random reflections at the domain boundary. Physical motivation for the process…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-30 Mikhail V. Menshikov , Marina Vachkovskaia , Andrew R. Wade

In this work we completely describe the dynamics of triangle tiling billiards. In the first part of this work, we propose a geometric approach of dynamics by introducing natural foliations associated to it. In the second part, we exploit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Olga Paris-Romaskevich

An N-component continuous-time dynamic system is considered whose components evolve autonomously all the time except for in discrete asynchronous instances of pairwise interactions. Examples include chaotically colliding billiard balls and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Boris D. Lubachevsky

Dynamical billiards are paradigmatic examples of chaotic Hamiltonian dynamical systems with widespread applications in physics. We study how well their Lyapunov exponent, characterizing the chaotic dynamics, and its dependence on external…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-02 George Datseris , Lukas Hupe , Ragnar Fleischmann

In order to understand the origin of one-body dissipation in nuclei, we analyze the behavior of a gas of classical particles moving in a two-dimensional cavity with nuclear dimensions. This "nuclear" billiard has multipole-deformed walls…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Baldo , G. F. Burgio , A. Rapisarda , P. Schuck

Have you ever taken a disputed decision by tossing a coin and checking its landing side? This ancestral "heads or tails" practice is still widely used when facing undecided alternatives since it relies on the intuitive fairness of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Lluís Hernández-Navarro , Jordi Piñero

The barrier billiard is the simplest example of pseudo-integrable models with interesting and intricate classical and quantum properties. Using the Wiener-Hopf method it is demonstrated that quantum mechanics of a rectangular billiard with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-05 Eugene Bogomolny

The paper establishes the property of splittability of billiard boundary sequences in n dimensional cube into subsequences of fractional parts. This reveals a new property of integrable and weak perturbated Hamilton systems: under a simple…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Yu. Shahverdian