A simple procedure for generating a Kappa distribution in PIC simulation
Plasma Physics
2026-03-24 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Space Physics
Abstract
For kinetic modeling of plasma processes in space, a rejection-sampling procedure for generating a Kappa distribution in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation is proposed. A Pareto distribution is employed as an envelope distribution. The procedure only requires uniform variates, and its acceptance efficiency is --.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.04272,
title = {A simple procedure for generating a Kappa distribution in PIC simulation},
author = {Seiji Zenitani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.04272},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, 1 ancillary Jupyter notebook file