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EPL
Volume 103, Number 4, August 2013
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| Article Number | 40003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/103/40003 | |
| Published online | 12 September 2013 | |
Periodic compression of an adiabatic gas: Intermittency-enhanced Fermi acceleration
1 School of Mathematics, University of Bristol - Bristol BS8 1TW, UK, EU
2 Departamento de Física, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista - Av. 24A, 1515, Bela Vista, CEP: 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
Received: 3 May 2013
Accepted: 23 August 2013
A gas of non-interacting particles diffuses in a lattice of pulsating scatterers. In the finite-horizon case with bounded distance between collisions and strongly chaotic dynamics, the velocity growth (Fermi acceleration) is well described by a master equation, leading to an asymptotic universal non-Maxwellian velocity distribution scaling as 
. The infinite-horizon case has intermittent dynamics which enhances the acceleration, leading to 
and a non-universal distribution.
PACS: 05.20.Dd – Kinetic theory / 05.45.Ac – Low-dimensional chaos
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