Chaotic behavior and period doubling in plasmas
- 3 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (5) , 551-554
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.551
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.Keywords
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