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"Punchets" are hybrids between ratchets and pumps, combining a spatially periodic static potential, typically asymmetric under space inversion, with a local driving that breaks time-reversal invariance, and are intended to model metal or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Thomas Dittrich , Nicolás Medina Sánchez

The phase shift's influence of two strong pulsed laser waves on effective interaction of electrons was studied. Considerable amplification of electrons repulsion in the certain range of phase shifts and waves intensities is shown. That…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 S. S. Starodub , S. P. Roshchupkin , V. V. Dubov

Magnetic reconnection is an important physical process in various explosive phenomena in the universe. In the previous studies, it was found that fast re- connection takes place when the thickness of a current sheet becomes on the order of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Satoshi Takeshige , Shinsuke Takasao , Kazunari Shibata

When an electrically conducting non-magnetic particle is subjected to a spatially varying and oscillating applied magnetic field of amplitude $\mathcal{H} + \mathcal{G} \cdot x$ and frequency $\omega$, an oscillating eddy current is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 V. Kumaran

The interaction between a thin foil target and a circularly polarized laser light injected along an external magnetic field is investigated numerically by particle-in-cell simulations. A standing wave appears at the front surface of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Takayoshi Sano , Shogo Isayama , Kenta Takahashi , Shuichi Matsukiyo

A mechanism for explosive magnetic reconnection is investigated by analyzing the nonlinear evolution of a collisionless tearing mode in a two-fluid model that includes the effects of electron inertia and temperature. These effects…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Makoto Hirota , Yuji Hattori , Philip J. Morrison

It is commonly assumed that photocurrent in two-dimensional systems with centrosymmetric lattice is generated at structural inhomogenities, such as p-n junctions. Here, we study an alternative mechanism of photocurrent generation associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Vladimir Silkin , Dmitry Svintsov

We investigate the transport properties of particles driven by colored noise in a flashing ratchet potential, focusing on both non-interacting and single-file interacting regimes. The model incorporates memory effects via a non-Markovian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-18 Karina I. Mazzitello , Daniel G. Zarlenga , Constancio M. Arizmendi

The nonlinear dynamo effect of tearing modes is derived with the resistive MHD equations. The dynamo effect is divided into two parts, parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. Firstly, the force-free plasma is considered. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Luo Yuhang , Gao Zhe

We consider diffusion caused by a combined influence of the Hall effect and electric currents, and argue that such diffusion forms chemical inhomogeneities in plasma. The considered mechanism can be responsible for the formation of element…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Vadim Urpin

The relationship between anomalous superdiffusive behavior and particle trapping probability is analyzed on a rocking ratchet potential with spatially correlated weak disorder. The trapping probability density is shown, analytically and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-18 D. G. Zarlenga , G. L. Frontini , Fereydoon Family , C. M. Arizmendi

Relativistic flying mirrors in plasmas are realized as thin dense electron (or electron-ion) layers accelerated by high-intensity electromagnetic waves to velocities close to the speed of light in vacuum. The reflection of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Zh. Esirkepov , Masaki Kando , James K. Koga

A serious obstacle that impedes the application of low and high temperature superconductor (SC) devices is the presence of trapped flux. Flux lines or vortices are induced by fields as small as the Earth's magnetic field. Once present,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Choongseop Lee , Boldizsar Janko , Imre Derenyi , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Astrophysical current layers, e.g., in pulsar winds, can be electrically charged, while the plasma is charge-symmetric, $e^\pm$. Using PIC simulations, we investigate dynamics and plasmoid formation (tearing instability) in charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Maxim Lyutikov

A physical model of the formation of a vortex current in a plasma channel of lightning discharges due to the anomalous Hall effect caused by relativistic spin-orbit interaction phenomenon is proposed. The existence of fast electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 N. I. Petrov

Motion of an atomic ensemble trapped into a deep optical lattice is considered. We propose a novel approach to construct an atomic ratchet by superimposing two additional lattices whose amplitudes are small and subjected to broadband…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-13 D. V. Makarov , L. E. Kon'kov

This paper is concerned with the analysis of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from plasmonic inclusions in the finite frequency regime beyond the quasi-static approximation. The electric permittivity and magnetic permeability in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Hongjie Li , Shanqiang Li , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang

The purpose of the present work is to apply a recently proposed methodology to enlarge parameter domains for which optimal ratchet currents (RCs) are obtained. This task is performed by adding a suitable periodic perturbation $F_j$ on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-31 Rafael M. da Silva , Cesar Manchein , Marcus W. Beims

Traditionally the charge ratchet effect is considered as a consequence of the extrinsic spatial asymmetry engineered by external asymmetric periodic potentials. Here we demonstrate that electrically and magnetically driven dissipative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Sergey Smirnov , Dario Bercioux , Milena Grifoni , Klaus Richter

A dc voltage drop develops along amorphous indium oxide nanowires that are exposed to an ac bias source. This voltage is anti-symmetric with magnetic field and is characterized by sample specific quasi-periodic magneto-voltage oscillations.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Shachaf Poran , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman