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Growth of the Wang-Casati-Prosen counter in an integrable billiards
by Z. Hwang, C. A. Marx, J. Seaward, S. Jitomirskaya, M. Olshanii
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Maxim Olshanii |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202108_00061v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | Aug. 1, 2022 |
| Date submitted: | June 24, 2022, 5:34 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Maxim Olshanii |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
This work is motivated by an article by Wang, Casati, and Prosen [Phys.~Rev.~E vol.~89, 042918 (2014)] devoted to a study of ergodicity in two-dimensional irrational right-triangular billiards. Numerical results presented there suggest that these billiards are generally not ergodic. However, they become ergodic when the billiard angle is equal to $\pi/2$ times a Liouvillian irrational, a class of numbers with properties lying in between irrational and rational. In particular, Wang et al.\ study a special integer counter that reflects the irrational contribution to the velocity orientation; they conjecture that this counter is localized in the generic case, but grows in the Liouvillian case.% We propose a generalization of the Wang-Casati-Prosen counter: this generalization allows to include rational billiards into consideration. We show that in the case of a $\ang{45} \!\! : \!\ang{45} \!\! : \! \ang{90}$ billiard, the counter grows indefinitely, consistent with the Liouvillian scenario suggested by Wang et al.
Author comments upon resubmission
(a) completely changed the order of presentation; (b) expanded the introduction by a factor of two; (c) clearly presented the position of our system of interest on the integrable->rational->Liouvillian->generic axis for right-triangular billiards. We want to express our wholehearted thank you: our manuscript improved visibly. Hoping for an affirmative answer.
Published as SciPost Phys. 14, 017 (2023)