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By employing a local two-fluid theory, we investigate an obliquely propagating electromagnetic instability in the lower hybrid frequency range driven by cross-field current or relative drifts between electrons and ions. The theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hantao Ji , Russell Kulsrud , William Fox , Masaaki Yamada

Charged particles interacting with electromagnetic waves have a portion of their energy tied up in wave-driven oscillations. When these waves are localized to the exhaust of linear magnetic confinement systems this ponderomotive effect can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 T. Rubin , I. E. Ochs , N. J. Fisch

We report a first principles study of the coupled evolution of energetic ions, background majority ions, electrons and electromagnetic fields in magnetised plasma during the linear phase of the lower hybrid drift instability. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 J W S Cook , R O Dendy , S C Chapman

We present the first observation of an instability in an expanding ultracold plasma. We observe periodic emission of electrons from an ultracold plasma in weak, crossed magnetic and electric fields, and a strongly perturbed electron density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 X. L. Zhang , R. S. Fletcher , S. L. Rolston

The magnetosphere of a pulsar is composed of relativistic plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We study the intrinsic Faraday rotation in the pulsar magnetosphere by critically examining the wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chen Wang , Jinlin Han , Dong Lai

Perpendicular electron dynamics and the associated collisions are discussed in relation to the collisional drift wave instability. In addition, the limit of small parallel wave numbers of this instability is studied and it is shown to yield…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts

A novel third order nonlinear evolution equation governing the dynamics of high frequency electrostatic drift waves has been derived in the framework of a plasma fluid model in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma. The linear dispersion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Siba Prasad Acharya , M. S. Janaki

The drift waves in field-reversed configurations without a toroidal magnetic field, therefore no shear, play an important role in plasma transport. The short connection length of the poloidal field in these systems leads to significant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-10 A. Surjalal Sharma

Small magnetic fluctuations ($B_1/B_0 \sim 10^{-4}$) are intrinsically present in a magnetic confinement plasma due to turbulent currents. While the perpendicular transport of particles and heat is typically dominated by fluctuations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Kaiyu Zhang , Wladimir Zholobenko , Andreas Stegmeir , Konrad Eder , Frank Jenko

Magnetized plasmas with equilibrium density gradients support drift-wave turbulence, which is often regulated by self-generated zonal flows. In this work, we experimentally examine the effect of increasing the magnetic field on turbulence…

We demonstrate analytically that, in toroidal plasmas, scattering by drift wave turbulence could lead to appreciable damping of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes via generation of short-wavelength electron Landau damped kinetic Alfven waves. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Liu Chen , Zhiyong Qiu , Fulvio Zonca

A second order nonlinear equation with variable coefficients has been derived to govern the dynamics of high frequency electrostatic drift waves in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma in a moving frame of (2 + 1) spatio-temporal dimensions.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Siba Prasad Acharya

Stochastic acceleration of electrons and protons by waves propagating parallel to the large scale magnetic fields of magnetized plasmas is studied with emphasis on the feasibility of accelerating particles from a thermal background to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Vahé Petrosian , Siming Liu

A formulation for the parametric instability of electromagnetic (EM) waves in magnetized pair plasma is developed. The linear growth rate of induced Compton scattering is derived analytically for frequencies below the cyclotron frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Rei Nishiura , Shoma F. Kamijima , Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

Spin dynamics of two-dimensional electrons in moderate in-plane electric fields is studied theoretically. The streaming regime is considered, where each electron accelerates until reaching the optical phonon energy, then it emits an optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 D. S. Smirnov , L. E. Golub

We consider "shuttling" of spin-polarized electrons between two magnetic electrodes (half-metals) by a movable dot with a single electronic level. If the magnetization of the electrodes is antiparallel we show that the transmittance of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Y. Gorelik , S. I. Kulinich , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , V. M. Vinokur

We present turbulent properties of electrostatic drift waves in a nonuniform collisional plasma composed of magnetised electrons and ions in the presence of immobile dust particles. For this purpose, we derive a pair of nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 A. Kendl , P. K. Shukla

Magneto-acoustic waves in partially ionized plasmas are damped due to elastic collisions between charged and neutral particles. Here, we use a linearized two-fluid model to describe the influence of this collisional interaction on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 David Martínez-Gómez

I present the numerical computation of speed and direction of the drift of a spiral wave in an excitable medium in the presence of an electric field. In contrast to earlier results, the drift speed presents a strong variation close to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Herve Henry

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye