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Minimum number of drive frequencies needed for chaos in the kicked rotor

Determine the minimal number of distinct harmonic components in the time-periodic drive of the kicked rotor Hamiltonian H(t)=L^2/(2I)+K cos(θ) Σ_{n∈ℤ} δ(t−nT) that are sufficient to produce classical chaotic dynamics, and characterize how the onset of chaos depends on the number and amplitudes of these frequency components.

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Background

In the comparison between the high-harmonic-generation simple-man model and the kicked rotor, the authors emphasize that a train of pulses can be represented as an infinite sum over harmonic frequencies (plus a DC component). They note that understanding the transition from single-frequency driving to multi-frequency excitation in producing chaos is incomplete.

They explicitly pose the question of how many frequencies are required to observe chaos, indicating a concrete unresolved aspect of the kicked-rotor dynamics under multi-harmonic drives.

References

This raises several additional questions: 1) How many frequencies are necessary to begin to observe chaos in the kicked rotor?

Attochaos I: The classically chaotic postcursor of high harmonic generation (2405.05804 - Berkheim et al., 9 May 2024) in Section “Future Work”, Subsection “From simple-man to kicked rotor”