Dynamics of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field with a Kicked Electric Field
Dynamics of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field with a Kicked Electric Field
This web map is generated from the Hamiltonian for charged particles in an electric field in the presence of a constant uniform magnetic field with a periodically kicked linear oscillator. For , with integer values of , the kicks and oscillations enter into resonance and the particles diffuse, eventually covering the entire phase space. This is one classic example of chaotic dynamics.
α=2π/q
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