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Transport in Hamiltonian systems

Journal Article · · IFS Newsl.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5471288
A new theory of transport which can be applied to the calculation of diffusion near the stochastic threshold has been developed. In this theory, attention is focused on the remnants of invariant surfaces which remain after destruction of the invariants by a perturbation. These remnants, called cantori, provide effective barriers for particle motion well above the breakdown level of perturbation. The theory is formulated in terms of the flux of trajectories through a cantorus. Near the breakdown the flux grows as the 3.01 power of the perturbation amplitude independent of the specific dynamics. Preliminary calculations on simple maps have verified the importance of the cantori as effective barriers in transport and the scaling of the transport times with the inverse of the theoretical flux.
OSTI ID:
5471288
Journal Information:
IFS Newsl.; (United States), Journal Name: IFS Newsl.; (United States) Vol. 3:1; ISSN IFSNE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English