Erratic Motion in a Convective Optical Flow
- 30 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (26) , 2800-2803
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.2800
Abstract
The Bloch-Maxwell equations of quantum optics are examined as a potential model problem for erratic motion in convective flows. A new type of erratic motion is found in which discrete harmonics accumulate geometrically to form an unresolvable spectral continuum.Keywords
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