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Computational studies of multiple-particle nonlinear dynamics in a spatio-temporally periodic potential
Myers, Owen D. Wu, Junru Marshall, Jeffrey S. Danforth, Christopher M.
Myers, Owen D.
Wu, Junru
Marshall, Jeffrey S.
Danforth, Christopher M.
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10.1063/1.4885895
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The spatio-temporally periodic (STP) potential is interesting in Physics due to the intimate coupling between its time and spatial components. In this paper, we begin with a brief discussion of the dynamical behaviors of a single particle in a STP potential and then examine the dynamics of multiple particles interacting in a STP potential via the electric Coulomb potential. For the multiple particles' case, we focus on the occurrence of bifurcations when the amplitude of the STP potential varies. It is found that the particle concentration of the system plays an important role; the type of bifurcations that occur and the number of attractors present in the Poincaré sections depend on whether the number of particles in the simulation is even or odd. In addition to the nonlinear dynamical approach, we also discuss dependence of the squared fractional deviation of particles' kinetic energy of the multiple particle system on the amplitude of the STP potential which can be used to elucidate certain transitions of states; this approach is simple and useful particularly for experimental studies of complicated interacting systems. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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2014-06-28
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Myers OD, Wu J, Marshall JS, Danforth CM. Computational studies of multiple-particle nonlinear dynamics in a spatio-temporally periodic potential. Journal of Applied Physics. 2014 Jun 28;115(24):244908.