Stochastically perturbed billiards: fingerprints of chaos and universality classes

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Main Authors: Artuso, Roberto, Burlo, Matteo
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Published: 2026
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author Artuso, Roberto
Burlo, Matteo
author_facet Artuso, Roberto
Burlo, Matteo
contents Billiards tables - a minimal model for particles moving in a confined region - are known to present classical (and quantum) different features according to their shape, ranging from strongly chaotic to integrable dynamics. Here we consider the role of a stochastic perturbation of the elastic reflection law, and show that while chaotic billiards maintain their key statistical feature, the behaviour for integrable billiard tables is completely different: it can be linked, for tiny perturbations, to Evans stochastic billiard, where at each collision the reflected angle is a uniformly distributed stochastic variable on $(-π/2,π/2$). The resulting spatial stationary measure has peculiar aspects, like being typically non uniform along the boundary, differently from any chaotic billiard table.
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spellingShingle Stochastically perturbed billiards: fingerprints of chaos and universality classes
Artuso, Roberto
Burlo, Matteo
Chaotic Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Billiards tables - a minimal model for particles moving in a confined region - are known to present classical (and quantum) different features according to their shape, ranging from strongly chaotic to integrable dynamics. Here we consider the role of a stochastic perturbation of the elastic reflection law, and show that while chaotic billiards maintain their key statistical feature, the behaviour for integrable billiard tables is completely different: it can be linked, for tiny perturbations, to Evans stochastic billiard, where at each collision the reflected angle is a uniformly distributed stochastic variable on $(-π/2,π/2$). The resulting spatial stationary measure has peculiar aspects, like being typically non uniform along the boundary, differently from any chaotic billiard table.
title Stochastically perturbed billiards: fingerprints of chaos and universality classes
topic Chaotic Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11849