Breaking down the Fermi acceleration with inelastic collisions
arXiv:0903.1838 · doi:10.1088/1751-8113/40/50/F02
Abstract
The phenomenon of Fermi acceleration is addressed for a dissipative bouncing ball model with external stochastic perturbation. It is shown that the introduction of energy dissipation (inelastic collisions of the particle with the moving wall) is a sufficient condition to break down the process of Fermi acceleration. The phase transition from bounded to unbounded energy growth in the limit of vanishing dissipation is characterized.
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