Velocity space degrees of freedom of plasma fluctuations
Plasma Physics
2018-08-13 v1
Abstract
We present the first measurements of a plasma velocity-space cross-correlation matrix. A singular value decomposition is applied to this inherently Hermitian matrix, and the relation between the eigenmodes and the plasma kinetic fluctuation modes is explored. A generalized wave admittance is introduced for these eigenmodes.
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@article{arxiv.1808.03392,
title = {Velocity space degrees of freedom of plasma fluctuations},
author = {Sean Mattingly and Fred Skiff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03392},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Published in Physics of Plasma Letters. This is the version that was sent in and accepted