TY - JOUR
T1 - Negative Mass Instability for Interacting Particles in a 1D Box
T2 - Theory and Application
AU - Strasser, D.
AU - Geyer, T.
AU - Pedersen, H. B.
AU - Heber, O.
AU - Goldberg, S.
AU - Amarant, B.
AU - Diner, A.
AU - Rudich, Y.
AU - Sagi, I.
AU - Rappaport, M.
AU - Tannor, D. J.
AU - Zajfman, D.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - We demonstrate that the synchronization effect observed [Pedersen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 055001 (2001)], when a bunch of ions oscillates between two mirrors in an electrostatic ion beam trap, can be explained as a negative mass instability. We derive simple necessary conditions for the existence of a regime in which this dispersionless behavior occurs and demonstrate that in this regime, the ion trap can be used as a high resolution mass spectrometer.
AB - We demonstrate that the synchronization effect observed [Pedersen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 055001 (2001)], when a bunch of ions oscillates between two mirrors in an electrostatic ion beam trap, can be explained as a negative mass instability. We derive simple necessary conditions for the existence of a regime in which this dispersionless behavior occurs and demonstrate that in this regime, the ion trap can be used as a high resolution mass spectrometer.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.283204
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.283204
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AN - SCOPUS:0037207382
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 89
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 28
ER -