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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E Année : 2023

Stochastic heating of free electrons in multiple electromagnetic waves: A simple physical analysis

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It is established that charged particles crossing the interference field of two colliding electromagnetic (EM) waves can behave chaotically, leading to a stochastic heating of the particle distribution. A fine understanding of the stochastic heating process is crucial to the optimization of many physical applications requiring a high EM energy deposition to these charged particles. Predicting key stochastic heating features (particle distribution, chaos threshold) is usually achieved using a heavy Hamiltonian formalism required to model particle dynamics in chaotic regimes. Here, we explore an alternative and more intuitive path, which makes it possible to reduce the equations of motion of particles to rather simple and well-known physical systems such as Kapitza and gravity pendulums. Starting from these simple systems, we first show how to estimate chaos thresholds by deriving a model of the stretching and folding dynamics of the pendulum bob in phase space. Based on this first model, we then derive a random walk model for particle dynamics above the chaos threshold, which can predict major features of stochastic heating for any EM polarization and angle $\theta_i$ .
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cea-04453346 , version 1 (12-02-2024)

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G Blaclard, F Quéré, G Bonnaud, H Vincenti. Stochastic heating of free electrons in multiple electromagnetic waves: A simple physical analysis. Physical Review E , 2023, 107, pp.034205. ⟨10.1103/physreve.107.034205⟩. ⟨cea-04453346⟩
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