Abstract
Different types of models for describing the motion of a kicked ion were suggested and studied. It is shown that certain kinds of jumping behavior of the exerting electromagnetic field can lead to a type of noninvertible property, which changes this conservative system into a "quasi-dissipative" one. The quasi-dissipative behaviors allow the particle to move along a confined chaotic "quasi-attractor" in many regions of the parameter space. If the exerting electromagnetic field is discontinuous but the system is still invertible, it will take an unbounded chaotic diffusion with similar parameter values. We hope that this discovery could provide a helpful idea for confining the plasma.