title: Phase mixing, induced relaxation, and chaos in one-dimensional dynamical systems.
abstract: This paper investigates the mechanism of induced phase mixing, which leads to effective dissipation in classical nonlinear dynamical systems with a fast modulation of the potential. The suggested model can be applied to a classical dynamical description of cold atomic clouds in optical traps. We show that the parametric nonadiabatic modulation of the laser intensity can provide a tool for dynamical control of the effective relaxation in such systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bulatov
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Vugmeister
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rabitz