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Vassili Gelfreich1, Vered Rom-Kedar, Kushal Shah
1University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
A class of nonrelativistic particle accelerators in which the majority of particles gain energy at an exponential rate is constructed. The class includes ergodic billiards with a piston that moves adiabatically and is removed adiabatically in a periodic fashion. The phenomenon is robust: deformations that keep the chaotic character of the billiard retain the exponential energy growth. The growth rate is found analytically and is, thus, controllable. Numerical simulations corroborate the analytic predictions with good precision. The acceleration mechanism has a natural thermodynamical interpretation and is applied to a hot dilute gas of repelling particles.
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