Modul:   MAT760  Ergodic theory and dynamical systems seminar

Tiling billiard in the wind-tree model

Vortrag von Magali Jay

Sprecher eingeladen von: Prof. Dr. Corinna Ulcigrai

Datum: 29.05.24  Zeit: 13.30 - 14.30  Raum: ETH HG G 19.1

In this talk, I will present the meeting of different dynamical systems: tiling billiards, the wind-tree model and Eaton lenses. The three of them are motivated by physics. The wind-tree model was instoduced by Paul and Tatyana Ehrenfest to study a gaz: a particule is moving in a plane where obstacles are periodically placed, on which the particule bounces. The Eaton lenses are a periodic array of lenses in the plane, in which we consider a light ray that is reflected each time it crosses a lens. In the beginning of the 2000's, physicists have conceived metamaterials with negative index of refraction. Tilling billiards' trajectories consist of light rays moving in a arrangement of metamaterials with opposite indew of refraction. After having introduced these dynamical systems, I will consider a mix of them: an arrangement of rectangles in the plane, like in the wind-tree model, but made of metamaterials, like for tiling billiards. I study the trajectories of light in this plane. They are refracted each time they cross a rectangle. I show that these trajectories are traped in a strip, for almost every parameter. This behavior is similar to the one of Eaton lenses.