Period-adding route in sparkling bubbles

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Sep;72(3 Pt 2):037204. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.037204. Epub 2005 Sep 13.

Abstract

Chains of bubbles are seen rising along the wall whenever champagne is poured into a glass. The careful observation of a given bubble chain often reveals that the interbubble distance suddenly changes during the degassing process, indicating different bubbling regimes in this elusive phenomenon of effervescence. We report the transitions between these different bubbling regimes that present sequences of multiple periods known as the period-adding route.