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We revisit a time-dependent, oval-shaped billiard to investigate a phase transition from bounded to unbounded energy growth. In the static case, the phase space exhibits a mixed structure. The chaotic sea in the static scenario leads to…

We demonstrate that the free motion of any two-dimensional rigid body colliding elastically with two parallel, flat walls is equivalent to a billiard system. Using this equivalence, we analyze the integrable and chaotic properties of this…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 N. L. Balazs , Rupak Chatterjee , A. D. Jackson

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

In this article we study the dynamics of one-dimensional relativistic billiards containing particles with positive and negative energy. We study configurations with two identical positive masses and symmetric positions with two massless…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Alfonso Artigue

We claim that looking at probability distributions of \emph{finite time} largest Lyapunov exponents, and more precisely studying their large deviation properties, yields an extremely powerful technique to get quantitative estimates of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-20 Roberto Artuso , Cesar Manchein

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

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

The literature is rich with studies, analyses, and examples on parameter estimation for describing the evolution of chaotic dynamical systems based on measurements, even when only partial information is available through observations.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-07 Michele Baia , Tommaso Matteuzzi , Franco Bagnoli

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

Using the supersymmetry technique, we calculate the joint distribution of local densities of electron wavefunctions in two coupled disordered or chaotic quantum billiards. We find novel spatial correlations that are absent in a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Tschersich , K. B. Efetov

We study the thermal rectification phenomenon in ``billiard'' systems with interacting particles. This interaction induces a local dynamical response of the billiard to an external thermodynamic gradient. To explain this dynamical effect we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-15 Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio

In a recent letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 164101 (2008)] and within the context of quantized chaotic billiards, random plane wave and semiclassical theoretical approaches were applied to an example of a relatively new class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Denis Ullmo , Steven Tomsovic , Arnd Baecker

It is well known that typical Hamiltonian systems have divided phase space consisting of regions with regular dynamics on KAM tori and region(s) with chaotic dynamics called chaotic sea(s). This complex structure makes rigorous analysis of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-11 Leonid A. Bunimovich , Giulio Casati , Tomaz Prosen , Gregor Vidmar

We present numerical evidence which strongly suggests that irrational triangular billiards (all angles irrational with $\pi$) are mixing. Since these systems are known to have zero Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, they may play an important role…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Giulio Casati , Tomaz Prosen

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 the aspects of quantum chaos in mushroom billiards introduced by Bunimovich. This family of billiards classically has the property of mixed phase space with precisely one entirely regular and one fully chaotic (ergodic) component,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Matic Orel , Črt Lozej , Marko Robnik , Hua Yan

We adapt ideas from geometrical optics and classical billiard dynamics to consider particle trajectories with constant velocity on a cone with specular reflections off an elliptical boundary formed by the intersection with a tilted plane,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-06 Lara Braverman , David R. Nelson

Neutrino billiards serve as a model system for the study of aspects of relativistic quantum chaos. These are relativistic quantum billiards consisting of a spin-1/2 particle which is confined to a planar domain by imposing boundary…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-16 Barbara Dietz

We study, by numerical simulations and semi-rigorous arguments, a two-parameter family of convex, two-dimensional billiard tables, generalizing the one-parameter class of oval billiards of Benettin--Strelcyn [Phys. Rev. A 17, 773 (1978)].…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-07 Péter Bálint , Miklós Halász , Jorge Hernández-Tahuilán , David P. Sanders

We study quantum-mechanical tunneling between symmetry-related pairs of regular phase space regions that are separated by a chaotic layer. We consider the annular billiard, and use scattering theory to relate the splitting of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Eyal Doron , Steffen D. Frischat