Decay of ordered and chaotic systems

29 October 1990

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 65 (18) , 2213-2216
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.2213

Abstract

We study the decay of classical systems with regular and chaotic dynamics by investigating the escape of a particle from a container with a small hole. For the case of ergodic motion, we find an exponential decay law, whereas the nonchaotic system decays according to a power law.

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