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We perform first-principles relativistic particle-in-cell simulations of aligned pulsar magnetosphere. We allow free escape of particles from the surface of a neutron star and continuously populate the magnetosphere with neutral pair plasma…

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We present the basic prerequisites of electromagnetism in flat spacetime and provide the description of electromagnetism in terms of the Faraday tensor. We generalise electromagnetic theory to a general relativistic setting, introducing the…

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The concept "Classical Electromagnetism" in the title of the paper here refers to a theory built on three foundations: relativity principles, the original Maxwell's equations, and the mathematics of exterior calculus. In this theory of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leif Pettersson

In this paper we present the results of time-dependent simulations of dipolar axisymmetric magnetospheres of neutron stars carried out both within the framework of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and within the framework of resistive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Komissarov

We investigate the linear dynamics of an electromagnetic field propagating in curved spacetime in the presence of plasma. The dynamical equations are generically more involved and richer than the effective Proca equation adopted as a model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Enrico Cannizzaro , Andrea Caputo , Laura Sberna , Paolo Pani

In this thesis, we consider the dynamics of vortices in the easy plane insulating ferromagnet in two dimensions. In addition to the quasiparticle excitations, here spin waves or magnons, this magnetic system admits a family of vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lara Thompson

In the usual Clifford algebra formulation of electrodynamics the Faraday bivector field F is decomposed into the observer dependent sum of a relative vector E and a relative bivector e_5 B by making a space-time split, which depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomislav Ivezic

We perform a three-dimensional (3D) global simulation of Earth's magnetosphere with kinetic reconnection physics to study the flux transfer events (FTEs) and dayside magnetic reconnection with the recently developed magnetohydrodynamics…

In structured light with controllable degrees of freedom (DoFs), the vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) give access to provide additional degrees of freedom for information transfer, and in classic field, the propagation…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-16 Minhui Xiong , Ren Wang , Qinyu Zhou , Bing-Zhong Wang

Planetary magnetospheres exhibit diverse environments where Ultra-low frequency (ULF) pulsations induce nonlinear ponderomotive effects. Since suprathermal populations modeled by Kappa distributions are ubiquitous in these regions, their…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Joaquín Espinoza-Troni , Felipe A Asenjo , Pablo S Moya

Crustal quakes of highly magnetized neutron stars can disrupt their magnetospheres, triggering energetic phenomena like X-ray and fast radio bursts (FRBs). Understanding plasma wave dynamics in these extreme environments is vital for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Jens F. Mahlmann , Miguel Á. Aloy , Xinyu Li

By describing the dynamical evolution of a test charged particle in the presence of an electromagnetic field as a succession of infinitesimal Lorentz boosts and rotations it is possible to obtain the Lorentz Force of Electrodynamics. A…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 J. Buitrago

This article studies the vortical nature and structure of phase-space holes -- nonlinear B.G.K. trapping modes found in the phase-space collision-free plasmas. A fluid-like outlook of the particles' phase-space is explored, which makes it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Allen Lobo , Vinod Kumar Sayal

A theory for lifting equations of motion for charged particle dynamics, subject to given electromagnetic like forces, up to a gauge-free system of coupled Hamiltonian Vlasov-Maxwell like equations is given. The theory provides very general…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 P. J. Morrison

We present a comprehensive introduction to spacetime algebra that emphasizes its practicality and power as a tool for the study of electromagnetism. We carefully develop this natural (Clifford) algebra of the Minkowski spacetime geometry,…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-03 Justin Dressel , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

Numerous variations have been proposed on the original suggestion by Blandford and Znajek that magnetic fields could be used to extract rotational energy from black holes. A new categorization of these variations is proposed so that they…

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The effect of quantum coherence involving macroscopic degree of freedom, and occurring in systems far larger than individual atoms are one of the topical fields in modern physics. Because of material dispersion, a phenomenological approach…

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An energy extracting black hole magnetosphere can be defined by the location of its inner Alfv\'{e}n surface, which determines the rate of black hole energy extraction along a given magnetic field line. We study how the location of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-24 Kevin Thoelecke , Masaaki Takahashi , Sachiko Tsuruta

We study the effects of frame-dragging on the structure of force-free magnetospheres around rotating black holes. For slowly rotating black holes, analytic explorations often focus on transforming an exact force-free solution applicable to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-15 Kevin Thoelecke , Masaaki Takahashi , Sachiko Tsuruta

We present a numerical model in which a cold pair plasma is ejected with relativistic speed through a polar cap region and flows almost radially outside the light cylinder. Stationary axisymmetric structures of electromagnetic fields and…

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