Peeling the Onion of Order and Chaos in a High-dimensional Hamiltonian System

Abstract

Coexistence of various ordered chaotic states in a Hamiltonian system is studied with the use of a symplectic coupled map lattice. Besides the clustered states for the attractive interaction, a novel chaotic ordered state is found for a system with repulsive interaction, characterized by a dispersed state of particles. The dispersed and clustered states form an onion-like structure in phase space. The degree of order increases towards the center of the onion, while chaos is enhanced at the edge between ordered and random chaotic states. For a longer time scale, orbits itinerate over ordered and random states. The existence of these ordered states leads to anomalous long-time correlation for many quantifiers such as the global diffusion.