Classical cross section for chaotic potential scattering
- 7 August 1989
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 22 (15) , 2925-2938
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/22/15/011
Abstract
The authors investigate the differential cross section for a scattering system for which the existence of topological chaos in the phase space has already been shown in a previous paper. The most important result is the arrangement of an infinity of rainbow singularities into a fractal structure with a binary organisation. Its scaling behaviour is given by the eigenvalues of some periodic orbits. They discuss to what extent these results are typical for any chaotic scattering system.Keywords
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