Classical particle in a complex elliptic potential

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/16/165201MaRDI QIDQ3561008zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel W. Hook, Karta Kooner, Carl M. Bender

Publication date 17 May 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1548

zbMATH Keywords

equilibria and periodic trajectoriesetc.)Hamilton's equationsnumerical methods in complex analysis (potential theoryperturbation theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Perturbation theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H09) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Equilibria and periodic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K42)

Abstract: This paper reports a numerical study of complex classical trajectories of a particle in an elliptic potential. This study of doubly-periodic potentials is a natural sequel to earlier work on complex classical trajectories in trigonometric potentials. For elliptic potentials there is a two-dimensional array of identical cells in the complex plane, and each cell contains a pair of turning points. The particle can travel both horizontally and vertically as it visits these cells, and sometimes the particle is captured temporarily by a pair of turning points. If the particle's energy lies in a conduction band, the particle drifts through the lattice of cells and is never captured by the same pair of turning points more than once. However, if the energy of the particle is not in a conduction band, the particle can return to previously visited cells.

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