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Electromagnetic wave propagation through cold collision free plasma is studied using the nonlinear perturbation method. It is found that the equations can be reduced to the modified Kortweg-de Vries equation.

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The propagation of nonlinear waves in a lattice of repelling particles is studied theoretically and experimentally. A simple experimental setup is proposed, consisting in an array of coupled magnetic dipoles. By driving harmonically the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-07-19 A. Mehrem , N. Jiménez , L. Salmerón-Contreras , X. García-Andrés , L. M. García-Raffi , R. Picó , V. Sánchez-Morcillo

Computing is not understanding. This is exemplified by the multiple and discordant interpretations of Landau damping still present after seventy years. For long deemed impossible, the mechanical N-body description of this damping, not only…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-15 Dominique Escande , Didier Bénisti , Yves Elskens , David Zarzoso , Fabrice Doveil

It is shown in linear approximation that in the case of one-dimensional problem of transverse electron waves in a half-infinite slab of homogeneous Maxwellian collisionless plasma with the given boundary field frequency two wave branches of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 V. N. Soshnikov

Recent theoretical studies revealed the existence of topologically-protected surface plasma waves (TSPWs) in cold magnetized plasmas assumed uniform along the direction of a uniaxial magnetic field. Reflections-free propagation of the TSPWs…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Roopendra Singh Rajawat , Gennady Shvets

It is shown that the generalized discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation can be reduced in a small amplitude approximation to the KdV, mKdV, KdV(2) or the fifth-order KdV equations, depending on values of the parameters. In dispersionless…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 A. M. Kamchatnov , A. Spire , V. V. Konotop

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

Straightforward method for the derivation of linearized version of stochastic stability analysis of the nonlinear differential equations is presented. Methods for the study of large time behavior of the moments are exposed. These general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 Gyorgy Steinbrecher , Xavier Garbet

The dispersion characteristics of an circularly polarized electromagnetic wave of arbitrary amplitude, propagating in a highly (thermally and kinematically) relativistic plasma, are shown to approach those of a linear wave in an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Swadesh Mahajan , Manasvi Lingam

This paper describes a general investigation of stationary oscillations of galaxies. It begins with a linear analysis of modes of oscillation with continuous spectra of real frequencies. Such modes are gravitational analogues of the van…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter O. Vandervoort

We consider a homogeneous plasma composed of $N$ particles of the same electric charge which interact through a Coulomb potential. In the large plasma parameter limit, classical kinetic theories justify that the empirical density is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ouassim Feliachi , Freddy Bouchet

A two-dimensional generalized hydrodynamics (GH) model is developed to study the full spectrum of both longitudinal and transverse dust acoustic waves (DAW) in strongly coupled complex (dusty) plasmas, with memory-function-formalism being…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nitin Upadhyaya , Z. L. Miskovic , L. -J. Hou

The Lifshitz formula for the dispersive forces is generalized to the materials, which cannot be described with the local dielectric response. Principal nonlocality of poor conductors is related with the finite screening length of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-29 Vitaly B. Svetovoy

Spectral singularities and the coherent perfect absorption are two interrelated concepts that have originally been introduced and studied for linear waves interacting with complex potentials. In the meantime, the distinctive asymptotic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-22 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

The low-frequency acoustic-like modes in a pair plasma (electron-positron or pair-ion) is studied by employing a kinetic theory model based on the Vlasov and Poisson's equation with emphasizing the Tsallis's nonextensive statistics. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 E. Saberian , A. Esfandyari-Kalejahi

On the viewpoint of corpuscular model an electromagnetic radiation can be regarded as a system composed of photons with different energies and momenta, which provides us a method being different from the Maxwell wave theory to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Zhigang Bu , Yuee Luo , Hehe Li , Wenbo Chen , Peiyong Ji

A specific set of dimensionless plasma and turbulence parameters is introduced to characterize the nature of turbulence and its dissipation in weakly collisional space and astrophysical plasmas. Key considerations are discussed for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Gregory G. Howes

Electrostatic waves in a collision-free unmagnetized plasma of electrons with fixed ions are investigated for electron equilibrium velocity distribution functions that deviate slightly from Maxwellian. Of interest are undamped waves that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Valentini , D. Perrone , F. Califano , F. Pegoraro , P. Veltri , P. J. Morrison , T. M. O'Neil

In the present paper the linearized problem of half-space plasma oscillations in external longitudinal alternating electric field is solved analytically. Specular - accommodative boundary conditions of electron reflection from the plasma…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 N. V. Gritsienko , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

In transport phenomena, perturbation waves are a result of interaction of molecules in gases and liquids, charged particles (ions, electrons) in plasma, conduction electrons and phonons in solid bodies. General statistical theory of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 Isaac Shnaid