2009/04/02 by Jean‐François Laprise, J F Laprise, Ahmad Hosseinizadeh +9
Physics and Astronomy · #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Theoretical and Computational Physics #nlin.CD
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.0627
19 figures
openalex publication_date 2009/04/02 · arxiv created 2011/07/11 · arxiv updated 2011/07/12 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
For classical billiards we suggest that a matrix of action or length of trajectories in conjunction with statistical measures, level spacing distribution and spectral rigidity, can be used to distinguish chaotic from integrable systems. As examples of 2D chaotic billiards we considered the Bunimovich stadium billiard and the Sinai billiard. In the level spacing distribution and spectral rigidity we found GOE behaviour consistent with predictions from random matrix theory. We studied transport properties and computed a diffusion coefficient. For the Sinai billiard, we found normal diffusion, while the stadium billiard showed anomalous diffusion behaviour. As example of a 2D integrable billiard we considered the rectangular billiard. We found very rigid behaviour with strongly correlated spectra similar to a Dirac comb. These findings present numerical evidence for universality in level spacing fluctuations to hold in classically integrable systems and in classically fully chaotic systems.