Chaotic dynamics of the elliptical stadium billiard in the full parameter space

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Abstract: 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 shape parameters delta and gamma, this system reveals a rich interplay of integrable, mixed and fully chaotic behavior. Poincare sections, the box counting method and the stability analysis determine the structure of the parameter space and the borders between regions with different behavior. Results confirm the existence of a large fully chaotic region surrounding the straight line delta=1-gamma corresponding to the Bunimovich circular stadium billiard. Bifurcations due to the hour-glass and multidiamond orbits are described. For the quantal elliptical stadium billiard, statistical properties of the level spacing fluctuations are examined and compared with classical results.


The authors explore classical and quantal dynamics of the elliptical stadium billiards in the full two-parameter space, analyzing two distinct groups of these billiards, separated from each other by the set of Bunimovich billiards. The existence and stability of some selected orbits are investigated by means of the Poincaré plots and orbit diagrams. Properties of the elliptic islands, their evolution and the bifurcations induced by the variation of the shape parameters are presented. The extention of the chaotic region of the phase space is numerically estimated by means of the box-counting method. Moreover, the authors consider the quantum-mechanical version of the elliptical stadium billiards, present selected results for the level spacing statistics, and compare them with the classical results for the chaotic fraction of the phase space.




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