Power-Law Distributions for a Trapped Ion Interacting with a Classical Buffer Gas

Autor:	Devoe, Ralph G.
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Physics - Atomic Physics
Zdroj:	Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063001 (2009)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.063001
Popis:	Classical collisions with an ideal gas generate non-Maxwellian distribution functions for a single ion in a radio frequency ion trap. The distributions have power-law tails whose exponent depends on the ratio of buffer gas to ion mass. This provides a statistical explanation for the previously observed transition from cooling to heating. Monte Carlo results approximate a Tsallis distribution over a wide range of parameters and have ab initio agreement with experiment.
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0637 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv