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N\'eel spin-orbit torque allows a charge current pulse to efficiently manipulate the N\'eel vector in antiferromagnets, which offers a unique opportunity for ultrahigh density information storage with high speed. However, the reciprocal…

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The waves generated by high-energy proton and alpha particles streaming from solar flares into regions of colder plasma are explored using particle-in-cell simulations. Initial distribution functions for the protons and alphas consist of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 A. Fitzmaurice , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

With first-principles kinetic simulations, we show that a large-scale Alfv\'en wave (AW) propagating in an inhomogeneous background decays into kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs), triggering ion and electron energization. We demonstrate that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Fabio Bacchini , Francesco Pucci , Francesco Malara , Giovanni Lapenta

The results of a comprehensive investigation into the effects of toroidicity-induced Alfv\'{e}n eigenmodes (TAE) and energetic particle modes on the NBI-generated fast-ion population in MAST plasmas are reported. Fast-ion redistribution due…

Generation of Alfv\'en and slow magneto-acoustic waves in weakly ionized atmospheres by excitation of the charges-only component of the two fluid (charges and neutrals) plasma is shown to be more or less efficient depending on the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Paul S. Cally

Weakly ionized plasmas can be found in the lower layers of the solar and stellar atmospheres and in structures such as prominences and spicules. A variety of density perturbations and bulk flows detected in these environments have been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 David Martínez-Gómez

In this work, we put forward a general phase-space transport theory in axisymmetric tokamak plasmas based upon the concept of zonal state (ZS). Within this theoretical framework, the ZS corresponds to a renormalized plasma nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Matteo Valerio Falessi , Liu Chen , Zhiyong Qiu , Fulvio Zonca

The aim of this study is to analyze the stability of Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) in the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) plasma for steady state operations. The analysis is done using the gyro-fluid code FAR3d including the effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 J. Varela , J. Huang , D. A. Spong , J. Chen , V. Chan , L. Garcia , A. Wingen , Y. Ghai , Y. Zou

This study presents theoretical and numerical investigation of the coupled longitudinal and radial wakefields excited by ultrarelativistic electron beams propagating through a cold plasma channel subjected to an external axial magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Ali Asghar Molavi Choobini , Mehran Shahmansouri

In this paper, results of 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations are reported for the magnetic reconnection of non-perfectly antiparallel magnetic fields. The magnetic field has a component perpendicular to the computational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiromitsu Kigure , Kunio Takahashi , Kazunari Shibata , Takaaki Yokoyama , Satoshi Nozawa

The acceleration of electrons at 1-10 keV energies is the cause of the polar aurora displays, and an important factor of magnetic energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth. Two main families of acceleration processes are observed:…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabrice Mottez

The evolution of the coupled drift wave (DW) and energetic-particle-induced geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) nonlinear system is investigated using the fully nonlinear coupled DW-EGAM two-field equations, with emphasis on the turbulence…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Ningfei Chen , Guangyu Wei , Zhiyong Qiu

The kinetic effects of electrons are important to long wavelength magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)instabilities and short wavelength drift-Alfvenic instabilities responsible for turbulence transport in magnetized plasmas, since the non-adiabatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 J. Bao , D. Liu , Z. Lin

We demonstrate theoretically and numerically the zonal-flow/drift-wave feedback mechanism for the LH transition in an idealised model of plasma turbulence driven by a small scale instability. Zonal flows are generated by a secondary…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-17 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

The non-linear evolution of a magnetic island is studied using the Vlasov gyro-kinetic code GKW. The interaction of electromagnetic turbulence with a self-consistently growing magnetic island, generated by a tearing unstable $\Delta' > 0$…

The excitation of THz radiation by the interaction of an ultra short laser pulse with the modes of a miniature corrugated plasma waveguide is considered. The axially corrugated waveguide supports the electromagnetic (EM) modes with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Chenlong Miao , John P. Palastro , Thomas M. Antonsen

We report on the observation of edge electric currents excited in bi-layer graphene by terahertz laser radiation. We show that the current generation belongs to the class of second order in electric field phenomena and is controlled by the…

We study the generation of parallel electric fields by virtue of propagation of ion cyclotron waves (with frequency 0.3 w_{ci}) in the plasma with a transverse density inhomogeneity. Using two-fluid, cold plasma linearised equations, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David Tsiklauri