What is the role of chaotic scattering in irreversible processes?
We study kinetic properties of simple mechanical models of deterministic diffusion like the scattering of a point particle in a billiard of Lorentz type and the multibaker area-preserving map. We show how dynamical chaos and, in particular, chaotic scattering are related to the transport property of diffusion. Moreover, we show that the Liouvillian dynamics of the multibaker map can be decomposed into the eigenmodes of diffusive relaxation associated with the Ruelle resonances of the Perron-Frobenius operator.
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Centre for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, Code Postal 231, Blvd. du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.