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Chaotic dynamics of a classical radiant cavity

Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, Italo Guarneri

chao-dynarXiv:chao-dyn/9904026

Abstract

The statistical properties of a classical electromagnetic field in interaction with matter are numerically investigated on a one-dimensional model of a radiant cavity, conservative and with finite total energy. Our results suggest a trend towards equipartition of energy, with the relaxation times of the normal modes of the cavity increasing with the mode frequency according to a law, the form of which depends on the shape of the charge distribution.

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