Collision-induced two-ion chaos

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Mar 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990natur.344..305b&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 344, March 22, 1990, p. 305-309.

Physics

37

Chaos, Ionic Collisions, Radio Frequencies, Spiral Galaxies, Celestial Mechanics, Coulomb Collisions, Radiation Pressure, Stability

Scientific paper

Two ions confined to a radio-frequency trap and cooled by radiation pressure exhibit deterministic chaos. Theoretical analysis of the two-ion dynamics reveals that the route to chaos is due solely to ion-ion collisions. During a collision, the nonlinear Coulomb interaction introduces a transient instability, which gives way to stable single-particle-like motion as the ions move apart. The chaotic dynamics are characterized by a strange attractor that resembles a spiral galaxy.

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