Survival probability for the stadium billiard

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2009.09.019zbMATH Open1180.37046arXiv0812.3095OpenAlexW2082520175MaRDI QIDQ845042FDOQ845042


Authors: Carl P. Dettmann, Orestis Georgiou Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 5 February 2010

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the open stadium billiard, consisting of two semicircles joined by parallel straight sides with one hole situated somewhere on one of the sides. Due to the hyperbolic nature of the stadium billiard, the initial decay of trajectories, due to loss through the hole, appears exponential. However, some trajectories (bouncing ball orbits) persist and survive for long times and therefore form the main contribution to the survival probability function at long times. Using both numerical and analytical methods, we concur with previous studies that the long-time survival probability for a reasonably small hole drops like Constant/time; here we obtain an explicit expression for the Constant.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3095




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