title: Quasiresonance: switching internal energy transfer on and off.
abstract: Quasiresonance involves a slow "external" switching on and off of an interaction between internal degrees of freedom described by action-angle variables having approximate resonances. The resonances or near-resonances spawn slow coordinates that fail to be adiabatic, but the remaining coordinates may be fast enough to have conserved actions. The interaction either can be imposed externally as a time dependent coupling or can arise autonomously due to interactions with other degrees of freedom. A resonance transformation into slow and fast angles reveals the action corresponding to the fast angle is adiabatic and conserved to very high accuracy. This paper extends our work on quasiresonance to new systems and regimes, including the He-H2 system, collisions with a periodic lattice, perturbative interactions, and discussion of quasiresonance in higher dimensional systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Antonia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.forename: Eric J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Heller