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The evolution of a linearly-polarized, long-wavelength Alfv\'en wave --propagating in a collisionless magnetized plasma with a sheared parallel-directed velocity flow-- is here studied by means of two-dimensional hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell (HVM)…

Using analytical theory and hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations, we demonstrate that, in a collisionless plasma, long-wavelength ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) with amplitudes $\delta n/n_0 \gtrsim 2/\beta$ (where $\beta\gg{1}$ is the ratio of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 M. W. Kunz , J. Squire , A. A. Schekochihin , E. Quataert

Linear properties of kinetic Alfv\'{e}n waves (KAWs) and kinetic slow waves (KSWs) are studied in the framework of two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics. We obtain the wave dispersion relations that are valid in a wide range of the wave frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 J. S. Zhao , Y. Voitenko , M. Y. Yu , J. Y. Lu , D. J Wu

An asymmetric pair of coupled nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (CNLS) equations has been derived through a multiscale perturbation method applied to a plasma fluid model, in which two wavepackets of distinct carrier wavenumbers and amplitudes are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 N. Lazarides , Giorgos P. Veldes , D. J. Frantzeskakis , Ioannis Kourakis

One-parameter families of exact two-component solitary-wave solutions for interacting high-frequency (HF) and low-frequency (LF) waves are found in the framework of Zakharov-type models, which couple the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-29 Gromov Evgeny , Malomed Boris

The properties of the nonlinear frequency shift (NFS) especially the fluid NFS from the harmonic generation of the ion-acoustic wave (IAW) in multi-ion species plasmas have been researched by Vlasov simulation. The pictures of the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 Q. S. Feng , C. Z. Xiao , Q. Wang , C. Y. Zheng , Z. J. Liu , L. H. Cao , X. T. He

In this paper, we establish nonlinear Landau damping below survival threshold for collisionless charged particles following the meanfield Vlasov theory near general radial equilibria. In absence of collisions, the long-range Coulomb pair…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Toan T. Nguyen

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are ubiquitous in space plasmas and a main component of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the heliosphere. As pump waves they are prone to parametric instability by which they can generate cyclotron and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Eckart Marsch , Daniel Verscharen

The heliosphere is predominantly a partially ionized plasma that consists of electrons, ions and significant neutral atoms. Nonlinear interactions amongst these species take place through direct collision or charge exchange processes. These…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. E. Kellum , Dastgeer Shaikh

The evolution of a solar flare accelerated non-thermal electron population and associated plasma emission is considered in collisional inhomogeneous plasma. Non-thermal electrons collisionally evolve to become unstable and generate Langmuir…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-10 Heather Ratcliffe , Eduard. P. Kontar

A new experimental platform based on laser-plasma interaction is proposed to explore the fundamental processes of wave coupling at the origin of interplanetary radio emissions. It is applied to the study of electromagnetic (EM) emission at…

We analyze the instability of an unpolarized uniform quantum plasma consisting of two oppositely charged fermionic components with varying mass ratios, against charge and spin density waves (CDWs and SDWs). Using density functional theory,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-22 Zhaoyu Han , Shiwei Zhang , Xi Dai

Unmagnetized collisionless plasma system consisting of positive- and negative ions, and electrons are considered to study the head-on collision of ion-acoustic shock waves (IASWs) and its effects on the formation of shock (monotonic and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 M S Alam , M R Talukder

Influence of quantum effects on the internal waves and the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in plasma is investigated. It is shown that quantum pressure always stabilizes the RT instability. The problem is solved both in the limit of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaly Bychkov , Mattias Marklund , Mikhail Modestov

Degenerate plasmas with motionless ions show existence of three surface waves: the Langmuir wave, the electromagnetic wave, and the zeroth sound. Applying the separated spin evolution quantum hydrodynamics to half-space plasma we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Pavel A. Andreev , L. S. Kuz'menkov

Starting from the Wigner-Moyal equation coupled to Poisson's equation, a simplified set of equations describing nonlinear Landau damping of Langmuir waves is derived. This system is studied numerically, with a particular focus on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 G. Brodin , J. Zamanian , J. T. Mendonca

Using two-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations, we explore the nonlinear "interruption" of standing and traveling shear-Alfv\'en waves in collisionless plasmas. Interruption involves a self-generated pressure anisotropy removing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 J. Squire , M. W. Kunz , E. Quataert , A. A. Schekochihin

The interaction of classical gravitational waves (GW) with matter is studied within a quantum mechanical framework. The classical equations of motion in the long wave-length limit is quantized and a Schroedinger equation for the interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. D. Speliotopoulos

We investigate driven wave turbulence in non-Abelian plasmas, in the framework of kinetic theory where both elastic and inelastic processes are considered in the small angle approximation. The gluon spectrum, that forms in the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Yacine Mehtar-Tani

Resonances with electromagnetic whistler-mode waves are the primary driver for the formation and dynamics of energetic electron fluxes in various space plasma systems, including shock waves and planetary radiation belts. The basic and most…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 A. V. Artemyev , A. I. Neishtadt , A. A. Vasiliev , D. Mourenas