Phase mixing in time-independent Hamiltonian systems

Details Phase mixing in time-independent Hamiltonian systems Phase mixing in time-independent Hamiltonian systems

1998-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809100v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages + 11 Postscript figures, latex, no macros. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.02063.x

Everything you ever wanted to know about what has come to be known as ``chaotic mixing:'' This paper describes the evolution of localised ensembles of initial conditions in 2- and 3-D time-independent potentials which admit both regular and chaotic orbits. The coarse-grained approach towards an invariant, or near-invariant, distribution was probed by tracking (1) phase space moments through order 4 and (2) binned reduced distributions f(Z_a,Z_b,t) for a,b=x,y,z,p_x,p_y,p_z, computed at fixed time intervals. For ``unconfined'' chaotic orbits in 2-D systems not stuck near islands by cantori, the moments evolve exponentially: Quantities like the dispersion in p_x, which start small and eventually asymptote towards a larger value, initially grow exponentially in time at a rate comparable to the largest short time Lyapunov exponent. Quantities like ||, that can start large but eventually asymptote towards zero, decrease exponentially. With respect to a discrete L^p norm, reduced distributions f(t) generated from successive decay exponentially towards a near-invariant f_{niv}, although a plot of Df(t)=||f(t)-f_{niv}|| can exhibit considerable structure. Regular ensembles behave very differently, both moments and Df evolving in a fashion better represented by a power law time dependence. ``Confined'' chaotic orbits, initially stuck near regular islands because of cantori, exhibit an intermediate behaviour. The behaviour of ensembles evolved in 3-D potentials is qualitatively similar, except that, in this case, it is relatively likely to find one direction in configuration space which is ``less chaotic'' than the other two, so that quantities like L_{ab} depend more sensitively on which phase space variables one tracks.

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