Mathieu Function
In mathematics, the Mathieu functions are certain special functions useful for treating a variety of problems in applied mathematics, including:
- vibrating elliptical drumheads,
- quadrupoles mass filters and quadrupole ion traps for mass spectrometry
- wave motion in periodic media, such as ultracold atoms in an optical lattice
- the phenomenon of parametric resonance in forced oscillators,
- exact plane wave solutions in general relativity,
- the Stark effect for a rotating electric dipole,
- in general, the solution of differential equations that are separable in elliptic cylindrical coordinates.
They were introduced by Émile Léonard Mathieu (1868) in the context of the first problem.
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