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An understanding of how turbulent energy is partitioned between ions and electrons in weakly collisional plasmas is crucial for modelling many astrophysical systems. Using theory and simulations of a four-dimensional reduced model of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 T. Adkins , R. Meyrand , J. Squire

Collisional relaxation of Coulomb systems is studied in the strongly coupled regime. We use an optical pump-probe approach to manipulate and monitor the dynamics of ions in an ultracold neutral plasma, which allows direct measurement of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 G. Bannasch , J. Castro , P. McQuillen , T. Pohl , T. C. Killian

We propose a simplified version of local molecular field (LMF) theory to treat Coulomb interactions in simulations of ionic fluids. LMF theory relies on splitting the Coulomb potential into a short-ranged part that combines with other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Natalia A. Denesyuk , John D. Weeks

The evolution equations for a plasma comprising multiple species of charged fluids with relativistic bulk and thermal motion are derived. It is shown that a minimal fluid coupling model allows a natural casting of the evolution equations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Jesse Pino , Hui Li , Swadesh Mahajan

The aim of this work is the investigation of the statistical properties of local electric fields in an ion-electron two component plasmas for coupled conditions. The stochastic fields at a charged or at a neutral point in plasmas involve…

The problem of calculating collective density fluctuations in quantum liquids is revisited. A fully quantum mechanical self-consistent treatment based on a quantum mode-coupling theory [E. Rabani and D.R. Reichman, J. Chem. Phys.116, 6271…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eran Rabani , David R. Reichman

Brown, Preston, and Singleton (BPS) produced an analytic calculation for energy exchange processes for a weakly to moderately coupled plasma: the electron-ion temperature equilibration rate and the charged particle stopping power. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-06-26 Lowell S. Brown , Robert L. Singleton

Using the kinetic theory we discuss how the particle and energy densities of the quark-gluon plasma fluctuate in a space-time cell. The fluctuations in the equilibrium plasma and in that one from the early stage of ultrarelativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Fluctuations of electric and magnetic fields in the collisionless plasma are found as a solution of the initial value linearized problem. The plasma initial state is on average stationary and homogeneous. When the state is stable, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

The paper addresses the problem of relaxation of open quantum systems. Using the path integral methods we found an analytical expression for time-dependent density matrix of two coupled quantum oscillators interacting with different baths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Illarion Dorofeyev

High speed camera imaging is a powerful tool to probe the spatiotemporal features of unsteady processes in plasmas, usually assuming light fluctuations to be a proxy for the plasma density fluctuations. In this article, we systematically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Simon Vincent , Vincent Dolique , Nicolas Plihon

In this paper the influence of large-scale decreasing and increasing gradients of the density of magnetized plasma on the relaxation process of a continuously injected relativistic electron beam with an energy of 611 keV ($v_b=0.9c$) and a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Vladimir Annenkov , Evgeniia Volchok

Thermalization in an expanding parton plasma is studied within the framework of Boltzmann equation in the absence of any mean fields. In particular, we study the time-dependence of the relaxation time to the lowest order in finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 H. Heiselberg , Xin-Nian Wang

The Alcator C-Mod mirror Langmuir probe system has been used to sample data time series of fluctuating plasma parameters in the outboard mid-plane far scrape-off layer. We present a statistical analysis of one second long time series of…

The self-consistent relaxation theory is employed to describe the collective ion dynamics in strongly coupled Yukawa classical one-component plasmas. The theory is applied to equilibrium states corresponding to intermediate screening…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Anatolii V. Mokshin , Ilnaz I. Fairushin , Igor M. Tkachenko

The spectral line shapes for hydrogen-like heavy ion emitters embedded in strongly correlated two-component electron-ion plasmas are investigated with numerical simulations. For that purpose the microfield fluctuations are calculated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. B. Nersisyan , C. Toepffer , G. Zwicknagel

We investigate the rates for multielectron recombination within a dense plasma environment in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). We find that these multielectron recombination rates can be high within dense plasmas, and they should be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 B. Ziaja , F. Wang , E. Weckert

The local equilibration time of quantum many-body systems has been conjectured to satisfy a `Planckian bound', $\tau_{\rm eq}\gtrsim \frac{\hbar}{T}$. We provide a sharp and universal definition of this time scale, and show that it is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-04 Luca V. Delacretaz

Electron-ion interactions play a central role for the energy relaxation processes and ultra-fast structure dynamics in laser-heated matter. The accurate prediction of the electron-ion energy exchange in a transient excited two-temperature…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Jia Zhang , Rui Qin , Wenjun Zhu , Jan Vorberger

This report addresses the moments, ${\mathfrak{G}_n}\left( {\mathbf{q}} \right) = \int_{ - \infty }^{ + \infty } {{\omega ^n}S\left( {{\mathbf{q}},\omega } \right)\mathrm{d}\omega },\,n \in \mathbb{N},\,n \geq - 1$, of the quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Basil J B Crowley