Irregular diffusion in the bouncing ball billiard

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dc.creatorMatyas, L.
dc.creatorKlages, R.
dc.date2002-11-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:34:25Z
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dc.descriptionWe call a system bouncing ball billiard if it consists of a particle that is subjected to a constant vertical force and bounces inelastically on a one-dimendional vibrating periodically corrugated floor. Here we choose circular scatterers that are very shallow, hence this billiard is a deterministic diffusive version of the well-known bouncing ball problem on a flat vibrating plate. Computer simulations show that the diffusion coefficient of this system is a highly irregular function of the vibration frequency exhibiting pronounced maxima whenever there are resonances between the vibration frequency and the average time of flight of a particle. In addition there exist irregularities on finer scales that are due to higher-order dynamical correlations pointing towards a fractal structure of this curve. We analyze the diffusive dynamics by classifying the attracting sets and by working out a simple random walk approximation for diffusion, which is systematically refined by using a Green-Kubo formula.
dc.description26 pages in Latex, Elsevier style; 11 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0211023
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0211023
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/80363
dc.subjectChaotic Dynamics
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleIrregular diffusion in the bouncing ball billiard
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