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Strongly coupled plasmas in which the interaction energy exceeds the kinetic energy play an important role in many astrophysical and laboratory systems including compact stars, laser plasmas and dusty plasmas. They exhibit many unusual…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-19 M. Bonitz , H. Kählert , T. Ott , H. Löwen

New unstable temperature gradient driven modes in an inhomogeneous plasma are identified. These modes represent transient $\omega \simeq k_{\Vert }v_{th}^{(e,i)}$ sound oscillations in magnetized plasma that are kinetically destabilized via…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Smolyakov , M. Yagi , Y. Kishimoto

An intense X wave propagating perpendicularly to dc magnetic field is unstable with respect to a parametric decay into an electron Bernstein wave and a lower-hybrid wave. A modified theory of this effect is proposed that extends to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 I. Y. Dodin , A. V. Arefiev

The evolution of electromagnetic (EM) solitons due to nonlinear coupling of circularly polarized intense laser pulses with low-frequency electron-acoustic perturbations is studied in relativistic degenerate dense astrophysical plasmas with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Sima Roy , Amar P. Misra

The equations of state for degenerate electron and neutron gases are studied in the presence of magnetic fields. After including quantum effects to study the structural properties of these systems, it is found that some hypermagnetized…

In this work, we present a linear stability analysis of fully-ionized rotating plasma disks with a temperature gradient and a sub-thermal background magnetic field (oriented towards the axial direction). We describe how the plasma reacts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alessio Franco , Giovanni Montani , Nakia Carlevaro

Compton scattering of gamma rays propagating in a pair plasma can drive the formation of a relativistic electron positron beam. This process is scrutinised theoretically and numerically via particle-in-cell simulations. In addition, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Bertrand Martinez , Thomas Grismayer , Luís O. Silva

In recent years, a strong reduction of plasma turbulence in the presence of energetic particles has been reported in a number of magnetic confinement experiments and corresponding gyrokinetic simulations. While highly relevant to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Di Siena , T. Görler , E. Poli , A. Bañón Navarro , A. Biancalani , F. Jenko

Instabilities of transverse waves due to a constant magnetic field in a non-degenerate quantum electron-ion plasmas are studied. A new type of cyclotron oscillation with a small growth rate is disclosed. Excitation of a new quantum mode is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Levan N. Tsintsadze

Recent analytical works on strong magnetized plasma turbulence have hypothesized the existence of a range of scales where the tearing instability may govern the energy cascade. In this paper, we estimate the conditions under which such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nuno F. Loureiro , Stanislav Boldyrev

We show that circularly polarized lasers create plasmas with long-lasting ring-shaped weakly relativistic momentum distributions which, in the presence of an ambient magnetic field, are prone to the electron cyclotron maser instability.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Thales Silva , Pablo J. Bilbao , Luis O. Silva

We show that in a neutral magnetized plasma there exist microscopic oscillatory modes, with wavelengths of the order of magnitude of the mean interparticle distance, which become unstable when the electron density exceeds a limit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 M. Marino , M. Zuin , A. Carati , E. Martines , L. Galgani

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

Buneman instability is often driven in magnetic reconnection. Understanding how velocity shear in the beams driving the Buneman instability affects the growth and saturation of waves is relevant to turbulence, heating, and diffusion in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 H. Che , M. V. Goldman , D. L. Newman

The dynamics of a relativistic blast wave propagating through magnetized medium is considered taking into account possible inhomogeneities of density and magnetic field and additional energy supply. Under the simplifying assumption of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim Lyutikov

Electrostatic Gravitational or Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in an inhomogeneous magnetized multi-ions plasma with some fraction of quantum mechanical electrons. The effect of Bohm potential, temperature degeneracy and magnetic field are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 A. Mushtaq , Sajad Ali , Zahida Ehsan

Nonlinear dynamics of the electron-cyclotron instability driven by the electron $\mathbf{E\times B}$ current in crossed electric and magnetic field is studied. In nonlinear regime the instability proceeds by developing a large amplitude…

In the study on nonlinear wave-wave processes in an ionosphere and a magnetosphere usually the main attention is paid to investigation of plasma turbulence at well developed stage, when the wide spectrum of plasma wave is present. On the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Volokitin , B. Atamaniuk

In this work, we present a novel kind of energetic particle modes with frequencies in the range of thermal ion diamagnetic and/or transit frequencies in burning plasmas. It is shown that the continuum structure can be broken by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Yang Li

Nonlinear radio waves modulate the plasma, scatter on the modulations, and develop an intermittent power spectrum -- perhaps. Rudiments of theory, numerical simulations, and qualitative modeling of nonlinear scattering are presented.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-10 Andrei Gruzinov