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A pair of curved shocks in a collisionless plasma is examined with a two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. The shocks are created by the collision of two electron-ion clouds at a speed that exceeds everywhere the threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-14 M. E. Dieckmann , A. Bock , H. Ahmed , D. Doria , G. Sarri , A. Ynnerman , M. Borghesi

We present observations of wave steepening and signatures of shock formation during expansion of ultracold neutral plasmas formed with an initial density distribution that is centrally peaked and decays exponentially with distance. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 M. K. Warrens , N. P. Inman , G. M. Gorman , B. T. Husick , S. J. Bradshaw , T. C. Killian

In this work, a systematic study, examining the propagation of periodic and solitary wave along the magnetic field in a cold collision-free plasma, is presented. Employing the quasi-neutral approximation and the conservation of momentum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Abbas , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. E. Allen , V. Koukouloyannis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , N. Karachalios

Low-frequency mangnetosonic pulses in a two-ion-species plasma are studied theoretically and by simulation with a one-dimensional electromagnetic simulation code based on a three-fluid model, with particular attention to the dynamics of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mieko Toida , Daiju Dogen , Yukiharu Ohsawa

The high-frequency part of spectrum of electromagnetic waves propagating parallel to the external magnetic field is considered for the macroscopically motionless plasmas with the relativistic temperatures $T\sim m_{e}c^{2}$, where $m_{e}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Pavel A. Andreev

Intense laser-plasma interactions are an essential tool for the laboratory study of ion acceleration at a collisionless shock. With two-dimensional particle-in-cell calculations of a multicomponent plasma we observe two electrostatic…

After approximate replacing of Maxwellian distribution exponent with the rational polynomial fraction we have obtained precise analytical expression for and calculated the principal value of logarithmically divergent integral in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-09-17 V. N. Soshnikov

Plasma is a medium containing free electrons and cations, where each particle group behaves as a conducting fluid with a single velocity and temperature in the presence of electromagnetic fields. The difference in roles electrons and ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Emily Kelting , J. Douglas Wright

Numerical simulations recover ultra slow electron holes (EH) of electron-acoustic genre propagating stably well below the ion acoustic speed where the ion response disallows any known pure electron perturbation. The reason of stability of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 D. Mandal , D. Sharma , H. Schamel

Collisionless shocks tend to send charged particles into the upstream, driving electric currents through the plasma. Using kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate how the background thermal plasma neutralizes such currents in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Siddhartha Gupta , Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Eulerian simulations of the Vlasov-Poisson equations have been employed to analyze the excitation of slow electrostatic fluctuations (with phase speed close to the electron thermal speed), due to a beam-plasma interaction, and their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Karen Pommois , Francesco Valentini , Oreste Pezzi , Pierluigi Veltri

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

Electron-acoustic solitary waves (EASWs) in quantum plasma comprising stationary ions, cold electrons, hot electrons, and kappa-distributed electrons have been investigated. The generalized Kappa-Fermi distribution has been modified to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Aakanksha Singh , Punit Kumar

The emergence of a density bump at the front of a collisionless electrostatic shock wave have been observed experimentally during the ablation of an aluminium foil by a femtosecond laser pulse. We have performed numerical simulations of the…

In this paper, we study the weakly-compressive high-frequency plasma waves which are superposed on a large-amplitude Alfv\'en wave in a multi-fluid plasma consisting of protons, electrons, and alpha particles. For these waves, the plasma…

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

We study the collision frequencies of charged particles in the complex plasmas with the non-Maxwellian velocity distributions. The average collision frequencies of electron-ion, electron-electron and ion-ion are derived in the two-parameter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Ma Baojing , Du Jiulin

We report the results of 1D particle-in-cell simulations of ultrarelativistic shock waves in proton-electron-positron plasmas. We consider magnetized shock waves, in which the upstream medium carries a large scale magnetic field, directed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Elena Amato , Jonathan Arons

Particle acceleration and heating at mildly relativistic magnetized shocks in electron-ion plasma are investigated with unprecedentedly high-resolution two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that include ion-scale shock rippling.…

We consider formation of dissipationless shock waves in Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interaction between atoms. It is shown that big enough initial inhomogeneity of density leads to wave breaking phenomenon followed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Kamchatnov , A. Gammal , R. A. Kraenkel

Generation of anomalously energetic suprathermal electrons was observed in simulation of a high- voltage dc discharge with electron emission from the cathode. An electron beam produced by the emission interacts with the nonuniform plasma in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 D. Sydorenko , I. D. Kaganovich , L. Chen , P. L. G. Ventzek