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We study, by numerical and analytical means, the evolution of a uniform one-dimensional collisionless plasma initiated between plane absorbing walls. The ensuing flow is described by rarefaction waves that propagate symmetrically inward…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Alexander V. Khrabrov , Igor D. Kaganovich , Jian Chen , Heng Guo

Turbulence in the magnetized plasma is well understood to be the consequence of wave interactions. When the Hall effect is added to the minimum magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the MHD waves become dispersive and different nonlinear interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Erik C. Hansen , Prerana Sharma , Swadesh M. Mahajan

Dispersion effects induce new instabilities and dynamics in the weakly nonlinear description of light propagation in fiber Bragg gratings. A new family of dispersive localized pulses that propagate with the group velocity is numerically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Martel , M. Higuera , J. D. Carrasco

We develop a theoretical and computational framework for beam-plasma collective oscillations in intense charged-particle beams at intermediate energies (10-100 MeV). In Part I, we formulate a kinetic field theory governed by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Brandon Yee , Wilson Collins , Michael Iofin , Jiayi Fu

We generalise the celebrated semiclassical wavepacket approach from the adiabatic to the non-adiabatic regime. A unified description covering both of these regimes is particularly desired for systems with spatially varying band structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Ci Li , Wang Yao

In this letter, we provide an experimental demonstration of amplitude-dependent dispersion tuning of surface acoustic waves interacting with nonlinear resonators. Leveraging the similarity between the dispersion properties of plate edge…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Setare Hajarolasvadi , Paolo Celli , Brian L. Kim , Ahmed E. Elbanna , Chiara Daraio

The nonlinear evolution of the Weibel instability driven by the anisotropy of the electron distribution function in a collisionless plasma is investigated in a spatially one-dimensional configuration with a Vlasov code in a two-dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-16 L. Palodhi , F. Califano , F. Pegoraro

Electron acoustic waves (EAWs) are nonlinear plasma modes characterized by electron trapping, which suppresses the usual Landau damping. Despite being predicted in the 1990s, their excitation and decay mechanisms remain a subject of active…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 F. Valentini , T. M. O'Neil , D. H. Dubin

The dispersion equation of MGD plasma waves measured in a reference frame with a relative speed from that where they are generated is derived. The analysis leads further from what is known for waves produced in stationary plasmas in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 H. Pérez-de-Tejada , Eric Gómez-Gómez

It is well-known that the resonance phenomena can destroy the adiabatic invariance and cause chaos and mixing. In the present paper we show that the nonlinear wave-particle resonant interaction may cause the emergence of large-scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Fan Wu , Dmitri Vainchtein , Anton Artemyev

This paper presents a simple model for such processes as chaos spreading or turbulence spillover into stable regions. In this simple model the essential transport occurs via inelastic resonant interactions of waves on a lattice. The process…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin , Jens Juul Rasmussen

We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yeontaek Choi , Young-Sam Kwon , Sanggyu Jo , Sergey Nazarenko

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

Nonlinear wave--coupling is studied in a multi-species degenerate astrophysical plasma consisting of two electron species (at different temperatures): a highly degenerate main component plus a smaller classical relativistic flow immersed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 N. L. Shatashvili , S. M. Mahajan , V. I. Berezhiani

The time-asymptotic behavior of undamped, nonlinear oscillators with a random frequency is investigated analytically and numerically. We find that averaged quantities of physical interest, such as the oscillator's mechanical energy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirone Mallick , Philippe Marcq

Transverse and longitudinal dielectric permittivity elements are derived for radio frequency waves in a laboratory dipole magnetic field plasma (LDMFP) accounting for the finite ring current radius. The main feature of LDMFP is the fact…

The propagation of arbitrary amplitude ion-acoustic (IA) solitary waves (SWs) is studied in unmagnetized, collisionless, homogeneous electron-positron-ion (e-p-i) plasmas with finite temperature degeneracy of both electrons and positrons.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Rupak Dey , Gadadhar Banerjee , Amar P. Misra

Resonant electron interaction with whistler-mode chorus waves is recognized as one of the main drivers of radiation belt dynamics. For moderate wave intensity, this interaction is well described by quasi-linear theory. However, recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 D. Vainchtein , X. -J. Zhang , A. V. Artemyev , D. Mourenas , V. Angelopoulos , R. M. Thorne

Light forces induced by scattering and absorption in elastic dielectrics lead to local density modulations and deformations. These perturbations in turn modify light propagation in the medium and generate an intricate nonlinear response. We…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-01 Matthias Sonnleitner , Monika Ritsch-Marte , Helmut Ritsch

Bandyopadhyay and Das [Phys. Plasmas, 9, 465-473, 2002] have derived a nonlinear macroscopic evolution equation for ion acoustic wave in a magnetized plasma consisting of warm adiabatic ions and non-thermal electrons including the effect of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Jayasree Das , Anup Bandyopadhyay , K. P. Das