Dissipation Effects in the Ratchetlike Fermi Acceleration.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 513023, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2009/513023 Research Article Dissipation Effects in the Ratchetlike Fermi Acceleration Cesar Manchein and Marcus W. Beims Departamento de Fısica, Universidade Federal do Parana, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brazil ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Cesar Manchein, cmanchein@fisica.ufpr.br Received 23 April 2009; Accepted 29 June 2009 Recommended by Edson Denis Leonel Ac-driven asymmetric pulses can be used to control the Fermi acceleration between three different motions, A: the accelerated mode, D: the decelerated mode, and H: the hyperaccelerated mode. In this paper we show that dissipation strongly affects the particles velocity, reducing the possibility for an accurate control of the dynamics. The saturation time, where the mean velocity starts to be constant due to dissipation, decays with a power law ∼ γ −β , where γ is the dissipation parameter and β is close to 1. The value of the saturated mean velocity also decays with a power law with exponent β ∼ 0.6 for case H, and β ∼ 0.3 for case A. In case D this velocity is almost constant for small dissipations. Copyright q 2009 C. Manchein and M. W. Beims. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fermi acceleration is a topic which got attention in various areas of physics, ranging from nonlinear physics 1–8, atom optics 9–11, plasma physics 12, 13 to astrophysics 14– 16. After the first model proposed by Fermi 17, essentially two differen