Chaotic behavior and period doubling in plasmas
Abstract
We report the first experimental observation of chaotic behavior and period doubling in a pulsed plasma discharge sensitive to initial and boundary conditions. The Feigenbaum constants have been measured experimentally in one of the observed chaotic discharge routes.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.551
- Bibcode:
- 1987PhRvL..59..551C
- Keywords:
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- Chaos;
- Period Doubling;
- Plasma Jets;
- Plasma Oscillations;
- Branching (Mathematics);
- Fast Fourier Transformations;
- Power Spectra;
- Vacuum;
- Plasma Physics;
- 52.25.Gj;
- 05.45.+b;
- 52.35.Ra;
- Fluctuation and chaos phenomena;
- Plasma turbulence