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Fully numerical mesh solutions of 2D and 3D quantum equations of Schroedinger and Hartree-Fock type allow us to work with wavefunctions which possess a very flexible geometry. This flexibility is especially important for calculations of…

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We report analytical and numerical investigations of sub-ion-scale turbulence in low-beta plasmas, focusing on the spectral properties of the fluctuations and electron heating. In the isothermal limit, the numerical results strongly support…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-05 Muni Zhou , Zhuo Liu , Nuno F. Loureiro

This work presents a new theoretical and numerical model describing all possible linear interactions between upper-hybrid wave turbulence and random density fluctuations in a solar wind plasma; not only linear processes as wave reflection,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Catherine Krafft , Alexandr Volokitin

(abbreviated version of the abstract) We study the physics of cyclotron line formation in the high-energy spectra of accreting X-ray pulsars using Monte Carlo methods, assuming that the line-forming region is a low-density electron plasma…

Chaotic electromagnetic fields are common in many relativistic plasma environments, where they can be excited by instabilities on kinetic spatial scales. When strong electric fluctuations exist on sub-electron scales, they may lead to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Brett D. Keenan , Mikhail V. Medvedev

In this paper we present a model based on dynamics of the electrons in the plasma using a simplified Boltzmann equation coupled with a Poisson equation. The motivation arose to simulate active plasma resonance spectroscopy which is used for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Juergen Geiser , Thomas Zacher

Clear evidence for a positive correlation is established between the magnitude of magnetic fluctuations in the lower-hybrid frequency range and enhancement of reconnection rates in a well-controlled laboratory plasma. The fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hantao Ji , Stephen Terry , Masaaki Yamada , Russell Kulsrud , Aleksey Kuritsyn , Yang Ren

We perform quantum calculations of fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields in $AA$ collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. We find that in the quantum picture the field fluctuations are much smaller than predictions of the classical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-22 B. G. Zakharov

Fluctuations of electric and magnetic fields in the collisionless plasma are found as a solution of the initial value linearized problem. The plasma initial state is on average stationary and homogeneous. When the state is stable, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We develop a simple model of shape resonances in electron-molecule collisions that is based on the modified effective-range expansion and analytical solutions of the Schrodinger equation for the long-range part of the interaction potential.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-06-02 Zbigniew Idziaszek , Grzegorz Karwasz

Owing to its numerical simplicity, a two-dimensional two-electron model atom, with each electron moving in one direction, is an ideal system to study non-perturbatively a fully correlated atom exposed to a laser field. Frequently made…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Bauer

Understanding electron and ion heating phenomenon in capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasma discharges is vital for many plasma processing applications. In this article, using particle-in-cell simulation technique we investigate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Sarveshwar Sharma , Nishant Sirse , Miles M Turner , Animesh Kuley

Spectra of Thomson and Compton radiation, emitted during electron scattering off an intense laser beam, are calculated using the frameworks of classical and strong-field quantum electrodynamics, respectively. Both approaches use a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 M Twardy , K Krajewska , J Z Kamiński

{This work aims to investigate the spectral structure of the parallel electric field generated by strong anisotropic and balanced Alfvenic turbulence in relation with the problem of electron acceleration from the thermal population in solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. H. Bian , E. P. Kontar , J. C. Brown

Observations reveal nearly power-law spectra of magnetic and density plasma fluctuations at subproton scales in the solar wind, which indicates the presence of a turbulent cascade. We discuss the three-field and two-field models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-06 Stanislav Boldyrev , Jean Carlos Perez

Conduction electrons in metallic nano-objects ($\rm 1\,nm = 10^{-9}\, m$) behave as mobile negative charges confined by a fixed positively-charged background, the atomic ions. In many respects, this electron gas displays typical plasma…

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The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

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A system of reduced equations is proposed for the electron motion in the strongly-radiation dominated regime for an arbitrary electromagnetic field configuration. The developed approach is used to analyze various scenarios of an electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 A. S. Samsonov , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov

Experimental results on an auto-oscillatory pattern observed in a complex plasma are presented. The experiments are performed with an argon plasma which is produced under microgravity conditions using a capacitively-coupled rf discharge at…

The alignment dependence of the ionization behavior of H$_2$ exposed to intense ultrashort laser pulses is investigated on the basis of solutions of the full time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation within the fixed-nuclei and dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yulian V. Vanne , Alejandro Saenz