Periodic compression of an adiabatic gas: Intermittency enhanced Fermi acceleration
arXiv:1212.5482 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/103/40003
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.
6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in EPL (http://epljournal.edpsciences.org/)
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