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Periodic compression of an adiabatic gas: Intermittency enhanced Fermi acceleration
- Source :
- EPL 103, 40003 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- A gas of noninteracting particles diffuses in a lattice of pulsating scatterers. In the finite horizon case with bounded distance between collisions and strongly chaotic dynamics, the velocity growth (Fermi acceleration) is well described by a master equation, leading to an asymptotic universal non-Maxwellian velocity distribution scaling as v ~ t. The infinite horizon case has intermittent dynamics which enhances the acceleration, leading to v ~ t ln t and a non-universal distribution.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in EPL (http://epljournal.edpsciences.org/)
- Subjects :
- Nonlinear Sciences - Chaotic Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- EPL 103, 40003 (2013)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1212.5482
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/103/40003