arXiv · nlin/0204046
Deterministic diffusion in flower shape billiards
Abstract
We propose a flower shape billiard in order to study the irregular parameter dependence of chaotic normal diffusion. Our model is an open system consisting of periodically distributed obstacles of flower shape, and it is strongly chaotic for almost all parameter values. We compute the parameter dependent diffusion coefficient of this model from computer simulations and analyze its functional form by different schemes all generalizing the simple random walk approximation of Machta and Zwanzig. The improved methods we use are based either on heuristic higher-order corrections to the simple random walk model, on lattice gas simulation methods, or they start from a suitable Green-Kubo formula for diffusion. We show that dynamical correlations, or memory effects, are of crucial importance to reproduce the precise parameter dependence of the diffusion coefficent.
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Takahisa Harayama, Rainer Klages, Pierre Gaspard. 2002-04-18. Deterministic diffusion in flower shape billiards. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.66.026211
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