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Super-strongly magnetized plasmas play a crucial role in extreme environments of magnetar and laboratory laser experiments, demanding comprehensive understanding of how quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects influence plasma behaviour.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Mahmoud Alawashra , Jan Benáček , Martin Pohl , Mikhail Medvedev

We study relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks using unprecedentedly large particle-in-cell simulations of two-dimensional pair plasma. High energy particles accelerated by the shock are found to drive magnetic field evolution on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Uri Keshet , Boaz Katz , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Eli Waxman

The Lagrangian formulation of the scalar and spinor quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the presence of strong laser fields in a plasma medium is considered. We include the plasma influence in the free Lagrangian analogously to the "Furry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Erez Raicher , Shalom Eliezer , Arie Zigler

In this paper we explicate a method of magneto quantum hydrodynamics (MQHD) for the study of the quantum evolution of a system of spinning fermions in an external electromagnetic field. The fundamental equations of microscopic quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Mariya Ivanovna Trukhanova

We describe main ideas of method of many-particle quantum hydrodynamics allows to derive equations for description of quantum plasma evolution. We also present definitions of collective quantum variables suitable for quantum plasmas. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 P. A. Andreev , L. S. Kuz'menkov

Intense electromagnetic fields are created in the quark-gluon plasma by the external ultra-relativistic valence charges. The time-evolution and the strength of this field are strongly affected by the electrical conductivity of the plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Evan Stewart , Kirill Tuchin

Plasma in the earth's magnetosphere is subjected to compression during geomagnetically active periods and relaxation in subsequent quiet times. Repeated compression and relaxation is the origin of much of the plasma dynamics and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Gurudas Ganguli , Chris Crabtree , Alex Fletcher , Bill Amatucci

Quantum plasmas is a rapidly expanding field of research, with applications ranging from nanoelectronics, nanoscale devices and ultracold plasmas, to inertial confinement fusion and astrophysics. Here we give a short systematic overview of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Marklund , G. Brodin

Magnetars are proposed to be peculiar neutron stars which could power their X-ray radiation by super-strong magnetic fields as high as $\gtrsim 10^{14}$ G. However, no direct evidence for such strong fields is obtained till now, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Xue-Yu Xiong , Chun-Yuan Gao , Ren-Xin Xu

Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE) describes magnetically dominated relativistic plasma via non-linear equations for the electromagnetic field alone. Such plasma is thought to play a key role in the physics of pulsars and active black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Samuel E. Gralla , Ted Jacobson

The filamentation instability occurring when a non relativistic electron beam passes through a quantum magnetized plasma is investigated by means of a cold quantum magnetohydrodynamic model. It is proved that the instability can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Bret

We predict the existence of new nonlinear electromagnetic wave modes in pair plasmas. The plasma may be either non-magnetized or immersed in an external magnetic field. The existence of these modes depends on the interaction of an intense…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mattias Marklund , Padma K. Shukla , Gert Brodin , Lennart Stenflo

QED cascades play an important role in extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars. They can also be produced by passing a relativistic electron beam through an intense laser field. Signatures of collective pair plasma effects in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Kenan Qu , Sebastian Meuren , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Plasma-filled magnetospheres can extract energy from a spinning black hole and provide the power source for a variety of observed astrophysical phenomena. These magnetospheres are described by the highly nonlinear equations of force-free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Alexandru Lupsasca , Maria J. Rodriguez , Andrew Strominger

We study the long term evolution of magnetic fields generated by a collisionless relativistic $e^+e^-$ shock which is initially unmagnetized. Our 2D particle-in-cell numerical simulations show that downstream of such a Weibel-mediated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chang , A. Spitkovsky , J. Arons

Following the basic principles of a charge separated pulsar magnetosphere \citep{goldreich1969}, we consider the magnetosphere be stationary in space, instead of corotating, and the electric field be uploaded from the potential distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-01 K. H. Tsui

A theory for abelian plasma permeated by photons has been developed considering QED (quantum electrodynamics) generalized in Podolsky electrodynamics framework for consideration of higher order terms in electromagnetic theory. The theory…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Prabhat Singh , Punit Kumar

In this work, a many body relativistic quantum field theory for the collective modes of spinor quantum electrodynamic theory (QED) plasmas is developed. We introduce the thermo field dynamics into the QED plasma study. The nontrivial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Shan Wu , Ji-ying Zhang

The onset and evolution of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas is determined by several mechanisms, including instabilities, dynamo effects and ultra-high energy particle flows through gas, plasma and interstellar-media.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Flacco , J. Vieira , A. Lifschitz , F. Sylla , S. Kahaly , M. Veltcheva , L. O. Silva , V. Malka

For quantum effects to be significant in plasmas it is often assumed that the temperature over density ratio must be small. In this paper we challenge this assumption by considering the contribution to the dynamics from the electron spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Brodin , M. Marklund , G. Manfredi