Albegraic decay and Fluctuations of the Decay Exponent in Hamiltonian systems

Particle-decay processes in a nonhyperbolic Hamiltonian system are typically characterized by algebraic laws. That is, for a fixed set of parameter values, if one initializes a particle in a chaotic region near some Kol’mogorov-Arnol’d-Moser (KAM) tori, the probability for this particle to remain in the region at time t decays with time algebraically.