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N-body description of Debye shielding and Landau damping

Plasma Physics 2015-12-09 v2 Classical Physics

Abstract

This paper brings further insight into the recently published N-body description of Debye shielding and Landau damping [Escande D F, Elskens Y and Doveil F 2014 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 57 025017]. Its fundamental equation for the electrostatic potential is derived in a simpler and more rigorous way. Various physical consequences of the new approach are discussed, and this approach is compared with the seminal one by Pines and Bohm [Pines D and Bohm D 1952 Phys. Rev. 85 338--353].

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@article{arxiv.1506.06468,
  title  = {N-body description of Debye shielding and Landau damping},
  author = {D. F. Escande and F. Doveil and Yves Elskens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06468},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

invited talk to 42nd EPS conference on plasma physics (Lisbon, 2015), submitted to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion