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Quantumlike statistics of deterministic wave-particle interactions in a circular cavity
Gilet, Tristan
2016In Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 93, p. 042202
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Keywords :
Walking droplets; Quantum mechanics
Abstract :
[en] A deterministic low-dimensional iterated map is proposed here to describe the interaction between a bouncing droplet and Faraday waves confined to a circular cavity. Its solutions are investigated theoretically and numerically. The horizontal trajectory of the droplet can be chaotic: it then corresponds to a random walk of average step size equal to half the Faraday wavelength. An analogy is made between the diffusion coefficient of this random walk and the action per unit mass h/m of a quantum particle. The statistics of droplet position and speed are shaped by the cavity eigenmodes, in remarkable agreement with the solution of Schrödinger equation for a quantum particle in a similar potential well.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Gilet, Tristan  ;  Université de Liège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Microfluidique
Language :
English
Title :
Quantumlike statistics of deterministic wave-particle interactions in a circular cavity
Publication date :
2016
Journal title :
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
ISSN :
1539-3755
eISSN :
1550-2376
Publisher :
American Physical Society, College Park, United States - Maryland
Volume :
93
Pages :
042202
Peer reviewed :
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