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We report angle-resolved Raman scattering observations of the temperature dependent Landau damping of the acoustic plasmon in an electron bilayer system realised in a GaAs double quantum well structure. Corresponding calculations of the…

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Compressive fluctuations are a minor yet significant component of astrophysical plasma turbulence. In the solar wind, long-wavelength compressive slow-mode fluctuations lead to changes in $\beta_{\parallel \mathrm p}\equiv 8\pi n_{\mathrm…

The fast solar wind is a collisionless plasma permeated by plasma waves on many different scales. A plasma wave represents the natural interplay between the periodic changes of the electromagnetic field and the associated coherent motions…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch

We develop a method for investigating the relationship between the shape of a 1-particle distribution and non-linear electrostatic oscillations in a collisionless plasma, incorporating transverse thermal motion. A general expression is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-07-30 D. A. Burton , A. Noble

Landau damping is the mechanism of plasma and beam stabilization; it arises through energy transfer from collective modes to the incoherent motion of resonant particles. Normally this resonance requires the resonant particle's frequency to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Alexandru Macridin , Alexey Burov , Eric Stern , James Amundson , Panagiotis Spentzouris

A Landau fluid model for a collisionless electron-proton magnetized plasma, that accurately reproduces the dispersion relation and the Landau damping rate of all the magnetohydrodynamic waves, is presented. It is obtained by an accurate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-02 P. Goswami , T. Passot , P. L. Sulem

Ion cyclotron damping is a key mechanism for the dissipation of electromagnetic wave energy in weakly collisional plasmas. This study presents a combined approach using Liouville mapping and the field-particle correlation technique to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Rui Huang , Gregory G. Howes

Energy dissipation in collisionless plasmas is one of the most outstanding open questions in plasma physics. Magnetic reconnection and turbulence are two phenomena that can produce the conditions for energy dissipation. These two phenomena…

We analyze measured proton and electron temperatures in the high-speed solar wind in order to calculate the separate rates of heat deposition for protons and electrons. When comparing with other regions of the heliosphere, the fast solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Steven R. Cranmer , William H. Matthaeus , Benjamin A. Breech , Justin C. Kasper

Acceleration and transport of high-energy particles and fluid dynamics of atmospheric plasma are interrelated aspects of solar flares. We present here self-consistently combined Fokker-Planck modeling of particles and hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Wei Liu , Vahe Petrosian , John T. Mariska

We simulate the acceleration processes of collisionless particles in a shock structure with magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) fluctuations. The electromagnetic field is represented as a sum of MHD shock solution ($\Mag_0, \Ele_0$) and torsional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takayuki Muranushi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We demonstrate a novel technique for the measurement of the charge carried by a colloidal particle. The technique uses the phenomenon of the resonance of a particle held in an optical tweezers trap and driven by a sinusoidal electric field.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Seth Roberts , Tiffany A. Wood , William J. Frith , Paul Bartlett

Single-detector 3D dynamic light scattering (3D-DLS) emerges as a reliable technique to determine the drift velocity of out-of-equilibrium colloidal particles. In particular, our investigation reveals the appearance of oscillations of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-08 José López-Molina , Arturo Moncho-Jordá , María Tirado-Miranda

The polarization ratios $F=|E_\perp|^2/|E|^2$ of beam-generated turbulent Langmuir/$\mathcal{Z}$-mode ($\mathcal{LZ}$) waves and electromagnetic emissions radiated at plasma frequency $\omega_p$ by such sources are studied in weakly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Francisco Javier Polanco-Rodríguez , Catherine Krafft , Philippe Savoini

NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission is currently investigating the local plasma environment of the inner-heliosphere ($< $0.25$R_\odot$) using both {\em{in-situ}} and remote sensing instrumentation. Connecting signatures of…

Hybrid particle-field methods are computationally efficient approaches for modelling soft matter systems. So far applications of these methodologies have been limited to constant volume conditions. Here, we reformulate particle-field…

Magnetized high-energy-density plasmas can often have strong electromagnetic fluctuations whose correlation scale is smaller than the electron Larmor radius. Radiation from the electrons in such plasmas, which markedly differs from both…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Brett D. Keenan , Mikhail V. Medvedev

It is shown that partial incoherence, in the form of stochastic phase noise, of a Langmuir wave in an unmagnetized plasma gives rise to a Landau-type damping. Starting from the Zakharov equations, which describe the nonlinear interaction…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Fedele , P. K. Shukla , M. Onorato , D. Anderson , M. Lisak

A concise review is given on the past two decades' results from laboratory experiments on collisionless magnetic reconnection in direct relation with space measurements, especially by Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. Highlights…

Weakly collisional plasmas contain a wealth of information about the dynamics of the plasma in the particle velocity distribution functions, yet our ability to exploit fully that information remains relatively primitive. Here we aim to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Frederick Skiff , Gregory G. Howes