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We extend the classical magnetohydrodynamics formalism to include nonlocal quantum behavior via the phenomenological Bohm potential. We then solve the quantum magnetohydrodynamics equations to obtain a new analytical form of the dynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Tushar Mondal , Gianluca Gregori

Supersonic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a ubiquitous state for many astrophysical plasmas. However, even the basic statistics for this type of turbulence remains uncertain. We present results from supersonic MHD turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen , Salvatore Cielo , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We present a quantum kinetic theory for spin-$1/2$ particles, including the spin-orbit interaction, retaining particle dispersive effects to all orders in $\hbar$, based on a gauge-invariant Wigner transformation. Compared to previous…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Robin Ekman , Haidar Al-Naseri , Jens Zamanian , Gert Brodin

In this Letter, weak turbulence theory is used to investigate interactions among Alfven waves and fast and slow magnetosonic waves in collisionless low-beta plasmas. The wave kinetic equations are derived from the equations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

We study the modulation of fast magnetosonic waves (MSWs) in rotating inhomogeneous low-$\beta$ magnetoplasmas with the effects of gravitation and the Coriolis force. By employing the standard multiple-scale reductive perturbation technique…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 J. Turi , A. P. Misra

The expansion of a dense plasma into a dilute plasma across an initially uniform perpendicular magnetic field is followed with a one-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation over MHD time scales. The dense plasma expands in the form of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 M E Dieckmann , D Folini , R Walder , L Romagnani , E d'Humieres , A Bret , T Karlsson , A Ynnerman

The propagation properties of ion-acoustic solitary and shock waves in the magnetized viscous plasma with nonthermal trapped electrons are investigated. The Cairns-Gurevich distribution as the electron distribution is considered to describe…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Rui Huo , Jiulin Du

The nonlinear evolution of collisionless plasmas is typically a multi-scale process where the energy is injected at large, fluid scales and dissipated at small, kinetic scales. Accurately modelling the global evolution requires to take into…

The propagation of ion acoustic shocks in nonthermal plasmas is investigated, both analytically and numerically. An unmagnetized collisionless electron-ion plasma is considered, featuring a superthermal (non-Maxwellian) electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Sultana , G. Sarri , I. Kourakis

Compressional waves propagating in the partially ionised solar lower atmospheric plasmas can easily steepen into nonlinear waves, including shocks. Here we investigate the effect of weak dispersion generated by Hall currents perpendicular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 I. Ballai , E. Forgacs-Dajka , A. Marcu

Warm dense matter (WDM)--an exotic, highly compressed state of matter between solid and plasma phases is of high current interest, in particular for astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion. For the latter, in particular the propagation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 F. Graziani , Z. Moldabekov , B. Olson , M. Bonitz

The electromagnetic instabilities excited by the temperature anisotropy have been always one of the interesting issues in real high-density physical systems, where the relativistic and quantum effects due to spin can be important. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 M. Mahdavi , H. Khanzadeh

We consider a recently derived kinetic model for weakly relativistic quantum plasmas. We find that that the effects of spin-orbit interaction and Thomas precession may alter the linear dispersion relation for a magnetized plasma in case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Martin Stefan , Gert Brodin

A theoretical investigation has been carried out on the propagation of nonlinear ion-acoustic shock waves (IASHWs) in a collsionless magnetized degenerate quantum plasma system composed of inertial non-relativistic positively charged light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 M. K. Islam , S. Biswas , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , M. Salahuddin , A. A. Mamun

We extend the classical two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) formalism to include quantum effects such as electron Fermi pressure, Bohm pressure and spin couplings. At scales smaller than the electron skin-depth, the Hall effect and electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Daniel O. Gomez , Alejandra Kandus

This article deals with rotating magnetohydrodynamic flows of a thin stratified layer of astrophysical plasma in a gravitational field with a free-surface in a vertical external magnetic field. Magnetohydrodynamic equations are obtained in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Maria Fedotova , Dmitry Klimachkov , Arakel Petrosyan

Oblique propagation of the spin-electron acoustic waves in degenerate magnetized plasmas is considered in terms of quantum kinetics with the separate spin evolution, where the spin-up electrons and the spin-down electrons are considered as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Pavel A. Andreev

The propagation of a gravitational wave (GW) through a magnetized plasma is considered. In particular, we study the excitation of fast magnetosonic waves (MSW) by a gravitational wave, using the linearized general-relativistic hydromagnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 D. Papadopoulos , N. Stergioulas , L. Vlahos , J. Kuijpers

The stability of subcritical perpendicular fast magnetosonic shocks, which are propagating at 1.7 times the fast magnetosonic speed, is investigated using two-dimensional PIC simulations. The plasma, composed of electrons and fully ionized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 ME Dieckmann , L Palodhi , M Francois , D Folini , R Walder

Solar prominences are partially ionised plasmas displaying flows and oscillations. These oscillations show time and spatial damping and, commonly, have been explained in terms of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. We study the spatial damping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Carbonell , P. Forteza , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester