Complex Route to Chaos in Velocity Driven Atoms

Abstract

The oscillations of linear triatomic molecule with the first atom driven at a constant velocity upsilon are studied numerically. As upsilon increases, we observe a sequence of transitions from quasiperiodicity to chaos, mode locking, chaos, model locking, chaos, another mode locking and then to chaos before atoms break off. The largest Lyapunov exponent does not rise linearly with the driven velocity. The mode locking structure for the last onset to chaos has a universal fractal dimension 0.871 + 0.001 at a winding number far from the golden mean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 05, 1990
Accession Number
ADA230051

Entities

People

  • C. T. White
  • Donald W. Brenner
  • Phouc X. Tran

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Frequency
  • Military Research
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • New York
  • Oscillation
  • Power Spectra
  • Relative Motion
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Sequences
  • Subatomic Particles
  • Transitions
  • United States
  • Virginia

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.