Chaotic features in classical scattering processes between ions and atoms
arXiv:chao-dyn/9608009 · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/29/19/003
Abstract
A numerical study has been done of collisions between protons and hydrogen atoms, treated as classical particles, at low impact velocities. The presence of chaos has been looked for by investigating the processes with standard techniques of the chaotic--scattering theory. The evidence of a sharp transition from nearly regular scattering to fully developed chaos has been found at the lower velocities.
10 pages, Latex, 3 figures (available upon request to the authors), submitted to Journal of Physics B