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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

We consider classical billiards in plane, connected, but not necessarily bounded domains. The charged billiard ball is immersed in a homogeneous, stationary magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. The part of dynamics which is not…

chao-dyn · Physics 2010-12-09 N. Berglund , H. Kunz

Billiards are flat cavities where a particle is free to move between elastic collisions with the boundary. In chaos theory these systems are simple prototypes, their conservative dynamics of a billiard may vary from regular to chaotic,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-19 T. Araújo Lima , R. B. do Carmo

Chaos is a phenomenon that occurs in many aspects of contemporary science. In classical dynamics, chaos is defined as a hypersensitivity to initial conditions. The presence of chaos is often unwanted, as it introduces unpredictability,…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-25 C. Liu , A. Di Falco , D. Molinari , Y. Khan , B. S. Ooi , T. F. Krauss , A. Fratalocchi

We investigate a class of mechanical billiards, where a particle moves in a planar region under the influence of an n-centre potential and reflects elastically on a straight wall. Motivated by Boltzmann's original billiard model we explore…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Stefano Baranzini

Chaotic properties of symmetrical two-dimensional stadium-like billiards with elliptical arcs are studied numerically and analytically. For the two-parameter truncated elliptical billiard the existence and linear stability of several…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-13 V. Lopac , A. Simic

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 coherent tunneling phenomenon is investigated in rectangular billiards divided into two domains by a classically unclimbable potential barrier. We show that by placing a pointlike scatterer inside the billiard, we can control the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Taksu Cheon , T. Shigehara

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

Spatially homogeneous cosmological models reduce to Hamiltonian systems in a low dimensional Minkowskian space moving on the total energy shell $H=0$. Close to the initial singularity some models (those of Bianchi type VIII and IX) can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Graham

N point particles move within a billiard table made of two circular cavities connected by a straight channel. The usual billiard dynamics is modified so that it remains deterministic, phase space volumes preserving and time reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Adrian Muntean , Omar Richardson , Lamberto Rondoni

The statistical properties of a classical electromagnetic field in interaction with matter are numerically investigated on a one-dimensional model of a radiant cavity, conservative and with finite total energy. Our results suggest a trend…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Italo Guarneri

Investigating the canonical problem of a periodic multilayered stack containing isotropic chiral layers, we homogenized it as a uniaxial bianisotropic medium and derived its effective constitutive parameters. The stack shows a resonant…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-08 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

In two previous papers the author described ``Islands of Instability" that may appear in wavefunction models with nonlinear evolution (of a type proposed originally in the context of the Measurement Problem). Such ``IsoI" represent a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 W. David Wick

We assume that the level spectra of quantum systems in the initial phase of transition from integrability to chaos are approximated by superpositions of independent sequences. Each individual sequence is modeled by a random matrix ensemble.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-14 A. Y. Abul-Magd

When applied to dynamical systems, both classical and quantum, time periodic modulations can produce complex non-equilibrium states which are often termed 'chaotic`. Being well understood within the unitary Hamiltonian framework, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 I. I. Yusipov , S. V. Denisov , M. V. Ivanchenko

Dynamical properties of the elliptical stadium billiard, which is a generalization of the stadium billiard and a special case of the recently introduced mushroom billiards, are investigated analytically and numerically. In dependence on two…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Lopac , I. Mrkonjic , N. Pavin , D. Radic

The seminal physical model for investigating formulations of nonlinear dynamics is the billiard. Gravitational billiards provide an experimentally accessible arena for their investigation. We present a mathematical model that captures the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 Alexandre E. Hartl , Bruce N. Miller , Andre P. Mazzoleni

An attractor of a piecewise-smooth continuous system of differential equations can bifurcate from a stable equilibrium to a more complicated invariant set when it collides with a switching manifold under parameter variation. Here numerical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-24 D. J. W. Simpson

We present an extensive numerical study of spectral statistics and eigenfunctions of quantized triangular billiards. We compute two million consecutive eigenvalues for six representative cases of triangular billiards, three with generic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-25 Črt Lozej , Giulio Casati , Tomaž Prosen