<< ️(AA) present a comprehensive discussion of a transition from integrability to nonintegrability in an oval billiard with a static boundary. This transition is controlled by a deformation parameter ๐, which modifies the boundary shape from circular, corresponding to ๐=0 and an integrable dynamics, to oval for ๐≠0, where nonintegrability emerges. >>
<< ️The deformation of the circular billiard gives rise to a chaotic layer that develops along a well-defined stripe in phase space. By introducing a set of transformations that isolate this chaotic stripe, (They) characterize the diffusive spreading of ensembles of trajectories and identify an observable, ๐_(rms,sat), which plays the role of an order parameter for the transition. >>
<< For small deformations, the saturation value of the diffusion obeys the scaling law ๐_(rms,sat)∝๐^(˜๐ผ), with a critical exponent ˜๐ผ=0.507(2), vanishing continuously as ๐→0. The associated susceptibility, ๐=๐๐_(rms,sat)/๐๐, diverges in the same limit, signaling the presence of critical behavior analogous to that observed in second-order (continuous) phase transitions in statistical mechanics. >>
Edson D. Leonel, Mayla A. M. de Almeida, Juan Pedro Tarigo, et al. Describing a universal critical behavior in a transition from order to chaos. Phys. Rev. E 113, 054220. May 28, 2026.
arXiv: 2602.17810v1 [nlin.CD]. Feb 19, 2026.
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Keywords: gst, billiard, oval billiard, transitions, order, disorder, elementary excitations, small deformations, topological defects, criticality, chaotic stripes, chaos.