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Dynamics of an excitable glow-discharge plasma under external forcing
Nurujjaman1, A N Sekar Iyengar
1Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Sharada Nagar, Chikkabommasandra, Bangalore 560065, India. jaman_nonlinear@yahoo.co.in
Abstract:
Glow discharge plasma in the excitable regime shows rich dynamical behavior under external forcing. By perturbing the plasma with a subthreshold sawtooth periodic signal, we obtained small subthreshold oscillations that showed resonance with the perturbation frequency. The resonance phenomenon can be useful to estimate characteristic of an excitable system. However, for suprathreshold perturbation, frequency entrainment was observed. In this case, the system showed harmonic frequency entrainment for the perturbation frequencies greater than the characteristic frequency of the system and the excitable behavior for the perturbation frequencies well below the characteristic frequency. The experiments were performed in a glow-discharge plasma where excitability was achieved at a suitable discharge voltage and gas pressure.
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