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We perform direct analysis of mirror mode instabilities from the general dielectric tensor for several model distributions, in the longwavelength limit. The growth rate at the instability threshold depends on the derivative of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Gedalin , Yu. E. Lyubarsky , M. Balikhin , R. J. Strangeway , C. T. Russell

Parallel thermal conduction along stochastic magnetic field lines may be reduced because the heat conducting electrons become trapped and detrapped between regions of strong magnetic field (magnetic mirrors). The problem reduces to a simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Leonid Malyshkin , Russell Kulsrud

The equations of electromagnetic fields in a medium is usually written in the rest frame of the medium. We outline a method of generalizing the discussion to arbitrary inertial frames. In the discussion, we also include the possibility that…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Palash B. Pal

We analyze here the minimal conditions for directional motion (net flow in phase space) of a molecular motor placed on a mirror-symmetric environment and driven by a center-symmetric and time-periodic force field. The complete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Cilla , F . Falo , L. M. Floria

Employing the Sagdeev pseudo-potential technique the ion acoustic solitary structures have been investigated in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma consisting of adiabatic warm ions, nonthermal electrons and isothermal positrons. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Ashesh Paul , Anup Bandyopadhyay

Anisotropic mirrors are used to form a laser resonator exhibiting non-Hermitian, parity-time (PT) symmetric, polarization states. The relative angle of the two mirrors principal axes is used to control the degree of non-hermiticity. A sharp…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-17 Jean-François Bisson , Yves Christian Nonguierma

The electromagnetic modes possibly unstable in strongly magnetized plasmas are identified. The regime where this instability might stand out compared to the incoherent electron-cyclotron radiation is explored. These modes are relevant to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 S. Son , Sung Joon Moon

The formation of vortex structures at reflection of electron beam from the double layer of the Jupiter ionosphere is investigated in this paper. And also the influence of these vortex structures on the formation of dense upward electron…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-15 V. I. Maslov , O. K. Cheremnykh , A. P. Fomina , R. I. Kholodov , O. P. Novak , R. T. Ovsiannikov

The selfgenerated wave fluctuations are particularly interesting in the solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas, where Coulomb collisions are rare and cannot explain the observed states of quasi-equilibrium. Linear theory predicts that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Lazar , S. Poedts , R. Schlickeiser , D. Ibscher

Nonlinear effects of the trapping of resonant particles by the combined action of the electric field and the magnetic mirror force is studied using a gyrokinetic description that includes the finite Larmor radius effects. A general…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Dusan Jovanovic , Olga Alexandrova , Milan Maksimovic , Milivoj Belic

It is shown that a strongly magnetized isothermal pair plasma near the surface of a pulsar supports low-frequency (in comparison to electron cyclotron frequency) toroidal electrostatic plasma modes in the equatorial region. Physically, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 U. A. Mofiz , M. R. Amin , P. K. Shukla

The spectra of polaritons in bigyrotropic medium are received. The ion and electron polarizations of medium under influence of high-frequency electromagnetic and external magnetostatic field are considered. It is shown that by varying of…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-24 I. V. Dzedolik , O. S. Karakchieva

Event horizon-scale observations of low-luminosity black hole accretion flows favor magnetically arrested disks, characterized by dynamically important magnetic fields ($\beta\lesssim1$, where $\beta$ is the ratio of plasma thermal pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-10 Vedant Dhruv , Lorenzo Sironi , Jordy Davelaar , Aaron Tran

We present a theoretical formulation of competition among electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Raman processes. The latter become important when the medium can no longer be considered to be dilute. Unlike the standard…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Agarwal , T. N. Dey , Daniel J. Gauthier

It is shown that the ion-proton magnetosphere is unstable in a limited area of the P - Pdot plane against transitions to a self-sustaining inverse Compton scattering mode in which the particles accelerated are mainly protons with a small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 P. B. Jones

We analyze the classical dynamics of a system composed of a one-dimensional cavity with a perfect, fixed mirror and a movable mirror with non-zero transparency interacting with a monochromatic laser. The movable mirror can deviate far from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Luis Octavio Castaños , Ricardo Weder

A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation is derived to investigate the modulational instability (MI) of ion-acoustic (IA) waves (IAWs) in a double pair plasma system containing adiabatic positive and negative ion fluids along with super-thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 N. Ahmed , A. Mannan , N. A. Chowdhury , A. A. Mamun

Nonlinear interaction of a low density electron beam with a uniform plasma is studied using two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. We focus on formation of coherent phase space structures in the case, when a wide…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 I. V. Timofeev

This paper summarizes the studies of plasma kinetic instabilities in the electron cyclotron frequency range carried out over the last decade at the Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences. We investigate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 A G Shalashov , M E Viktorov , D A Mansfeld , S V Golubev

Recapitulation of the resonance condition for the fundamental and higher electron cyclotron harmonics in the Electron Cyclotron Maser Instability (ECMI) enables radiation below and confirms the possibility of radiation in a narrow band…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 W. Baumjohann , R. A. Treumann