Edson D Leonel and P V E McClintock 2004 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 8949 doi:10.1088/0305-4470/37/38/004
Dynamical properties of a particle in a time-dependent double-well potential
Edson D Leonel and P V E McClintock
Show affiliationsSome chaotic properties of a classical particle interacting with a time-dependent double-square-well potential are studied. The dynamics of the system is characterized using a two-dimensional nonlinear area-preserving map. Scaling arguments are used to study the chaotic sea in the low-energy domain. It is shown that the distributions of successive reflections and of corresponding successive reflection times obey power laws with the same exponent. If one or both wells move randomly, the particle experiences the phenomenon of Fermi acceleration in the sense that it has unlimited energy growth.
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05.45.Mt Quantum chaos; semiclassical methods
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Issue 38 (24 September 2004)
Received 25 June 2004
Published 8 September 2004
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Dynamical properties of a particle in a time-dependent double-well potential
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