title: Rotating leaks in the stadium billiard.
abstract: The open stadium billiard has a survival probability, P(t), that depends on the rate of escape of particles through the leak. It is known that the decay of P(t) is exponential early in time while for long times the decay follows a power law. In this work, we investigate an open stadium billiard in which the leak is free to rotate around the boundary of the stadium at a constant velocity, ω. It is found that P(t) is very sensitive to ω. For certain ω values P(t) is purely exponential while for other values the power law behaviour at long times persists. We identify three ranges of ω values corresponding to three different responses of P(t). It is shown that these variations in P(t) are due to the interaction of the moving leak with Marginally Unstable Periodic Orbits (MUPOs).
authors.affiliation: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
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authors.lastname: Appelbe