Transition from regular to chaotic dynamics for weakly bound rotating clusters

Abstract

The measure of regular and chaotic component in dynamics of van-der-Waals clusters has been obtained by Monte Carlo method at different values of the total energy and the angular momentum. The nonmonotonic dependence of the volume of chaotic component on the angular momentum has been determined. The reason of transition to the chaotic regime has been revealed.

Keywords

• chaotic dynamics
• Monte Carlo method
• van der Waals clusters