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Previously developed method for finding asymptotic solutions of Vlasov equations using two-dimensional (in coordinate x and time t) Laplace transform is here applied to consider transversal oscillations and waves in low-collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

By splitting the Coulomb interaction into long-range and short-range components, we decompose the energy of a quantum electronic system into long-range and short-range contributions. We show that the long-range part of the energy can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Toulouse , Francois Colonna , Andreas Savin

The relaxed state of a magnetized relativistic hot plasma composed of inertial electrons and positrons having different relativistic temperatures and a fraction of static positive ions is studied. From the steady-state solutions of vortex…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Usman Shazad , M. Iqbal

We emphasize that a knowledge of energy and entropy densities of quark gluon plasma - a thermalized de-confined matter, formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions fixes the formation temperature and the product of gluon fugacity and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-22 Dinesh K. Srivastava , Rupa Chatterjee , Munshi G. Mustafa

The relaxation of a weakly collisional plasma, which is of fundamental interest to laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, can be described by the Boltzmann-Poisson equations with the Lenard-Bernstein collision operator. We perform a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Uddipan Banik , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We study the equilibration of a parton plasma in terms of its parton compositions and its state of thermalization. In studying the evolution of the plasma, one has to assume a small value of the strong coupling constant. This value is by no…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. H. Wong

We calculate the electron-ion temperature equilibration rate in a fully ionized, weakly to moderately coupled plasma, using an exact treatment of the Fermi-Dirac electrons. The temperature is sufficiently high so that the quantum-mechanical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lowell S. Brown , Robert L. Singleton

The relaxation of a relativistic hot electron-positron plasma with a small fraction of cold electrons and ion species is investigated, and a quadruple Beltrami (QB) relaxed state is derived. The QB state is a non-force-free state that is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Usman Shazad , M. Iqbal

We derive the mutual coherence function of an electron beam propagating through a static or dynamic Coulomb-disordered medium and show that its decay introduces an intrinsic coherence-reduction mechanism relevant for electron microscopy in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yury A. Budkov

Recent theories of hot-electron relaxation in dense hydrogen or deuterium are examined in the light of recent molecular-dynamics simulations as well as various theoretical developments within the two-temperature model. The theoretical work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

This article is devoted to the long-time dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium and to the possible emergence of collisional relaxation. More precisely, we consider a tagged particle coupled to a large number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Mitia Duerinckx , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

Transport properties of high-energy-density plasmas are influenced by the ion collision rate. Traditionally, this rate involves the Coulomb logarithm, $\ln\Lambda$. Typical values of $\ln\Lambda$ are $\approx 10~\mbox{to}~20$ in kinetic…

In this short note, we present some work on investigating electron temperatures and potentials in steady or unsteady dilute plasma flows. The analysis is based on the detailed fluid model for electrons. Ionization, normalized electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Shiying Cai , Chunpei Cai , Xin He

Does overall thermal equilibrium exist between ions and electrons in a weakly collisional, magnetised, turbulent plasma---and, if not, how is thermal energy partitioned between ions and electrons? This is a fundamental question in plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Yohei Kawazura , Michael Barnes , Alexander A. Schekochihin

We have shown that there exists low-frequency growing modes driven by a global temperature gradient in electron and ion plasmas, by linear perturbation analysis within the frame work of plasma Kinetic theory. The driving force of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Hattori , Keiichi Umetsu

We present long-time simulations of expanding ultracold neutral plasmas, including a full treatment of the strongly coupled ion dynamics. Thereby, the relaxation dynamics of the expanding laser-cooled plasma is studied, taking into account…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Pohl , T. Pattard , J. M. Rost

As recently manifested , the quench dynamics of isolated quantum systems consisting of a finite number of particles, is characterized by an exponential spreading of wave packets in the many-body Hilbert space. This happens when the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-23 Samy Mailoud , Fausto Borgonovi , Felix Izrailev

When \lambda_{T} << d_{T}, where \lambda_{T} is the de Broglie wavelength and d_{T}, the distance of closest approach of thermal electrons, a classical analysis of the energy of a plasma can be made. In all the classical analysis made until…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Merav Opher , Reuven Opher

We calculate suppression of inter- and intralayer superconducting currents due to equilibrium phase fluctuations and find that, in contrast to a recent prediction, the effect of thermal fluctuations cannot account for linear temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Artemenko , S. V. Remizov

We investigate electromagnetic buoyancy instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with the heat flux based on not the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, but using the multicomponent plasma approach when the momentum equations are solved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Anatoly Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri