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The anisotropic diffusion of electrons with various rigidity and the anomalous conductivity of a collisionless plasma in the presence of Weibel-generated quasi-static turbulent and uniform external magnetic fields are examined. Using an…

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

Two-dimensional fluid simulations of interchange turbulence for geometry and parameters relevant for the scrape-off layer of confined plasmas are presented. We observe bursty ejection of particles and heat from the bulk plasma in the form…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Odd Erik Garcia , Volker Naulin , Anders H. Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

This paper presents the plasma potential distribution across magnetic field lines in an argon/oxygen plasma created by 13.56 MHz CCRF discharge consisting of a pair of ring electrodes. It is found that the radial plasma density, electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Pawandeep Singh , Swati , Shantanu Kumar Karkari

The dispersion properties of elliptically polarized electromagnetic (EM) waves in a magnetized electron-positron-pair (EP-pair) plasma are studied with the effects of particle dispersion associated with the Bohm potential, the Fermi…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 M. Shahmansouri , A. P. Misra

Weakly collisional space plasmas are rarely in local thermal equilibrium and often exhibit non-Maxwellian electron and ion velocity distributions that lead to the growth of microinstabilities, that is, enhanced electric and magnetic fields…

We identify a possible mechanism of the plasmon instabilities in periodically gated two-dimensional electron systems with a modulated electron density (plasmonic crystals) under direct current. The instability occurs due to the amplified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov , Victor Ryzhii , Michael S. Shur

The physics of plasmas containing positive and negative ions is discussed with special attention to the recently produced pair-ion plasma containing ions of equal mass and opposite charge. The effects of the density gradient in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Vranjes , D. Petrovic , B. P. Pandey , S. Poedts

The dispersion equation, describing the instability development of vortex turbulence excitation in cylindrical plasma in crossed radial electric and axial magnetic fields with taking into account the longitudinal inhomogeneity and finite…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 V. I. Maslov , I. P. Levchuk , I. N. Onishchenko , V. B. Yuferov

Spin-polarized electron transport driven by inhomogeneous magnetic dynamics is discussed in the limit of a large exchange coupling. Electron spins rigidly following the time-dependent magnetic profile experience spin-dependent fictitious…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Matthew Mecklenburg

We investigate the inverse cascade of magnetic energy in decaying, collisionless plasmas with moderate to high-$\beta$ values via first-principles numerical simulations and analytical theory. We find that pressure-anisotropy-driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Zhuo Liu , Muni Zhou , Nuno F. G. Loureiro

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of collisionless jets of electrons and positrons in an ambient electron-proton plasma have revealed an acceleration of positrons at the expense of electron kinetic energy. The dominant instability within…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 M E Dieckmann , S J Spencer , M Falk , G Rowlands

We present 1X2V continuum Vlasov-Maxwell simulations of interpenetrating plasma beams with mobile ions. While the early-time evolution is similar to the stationary-ion case, the late-time dynamics are dominated by the ion-Weibel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Vivek Shrivastav , Mani K Chettri , Hemam D. Singh , Britan Singh , Rupak Mukherjee

Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are employed to investigate electron transport characteristics in Hall thrusters, with particular focus on how magnetic field configuration affects the electron transport due to electron drift…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Yinjian Zhao , Kunpeng Zhong

A long standing puzzle in fusion research comes from experiments where a sudden peripheral electron temperature perturbation is accompanied by an almost simultaneous opposite change in central temperature, in a way incompatible with local…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 F. Sattin , D. F. Escande

A rigorous analytical study of the dispersion relations of weakly amplified transverse fluctuations with wave vectors ($\vec{k}\parallel \vec{B}$) parallel to the uniform background magnetic field $\vec{B}$ in an anisotropic bi-Maxwellian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Schlickeiser , T. Skoda

We show that in a neutral magnetized plasma there exist microscopic oscillatory modes, with wavelengths of the order of magnitude of the mean interparticle distance, which become unstable when the electron density exceeds a limit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 M. Marino , M. Zuin , A. Carati , E. Martines , L. Galgani

Many models for anomalous transport consider the turbulent ExB transport arising from electrostatic micro-instabilities. In this paper we investigate whether the perturbed magnetic field that is associated with such instabilities at small…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 J W Connor , R J Hastie , A Zocco

The Weibel instability driven by two symmetric counter-streaming relativistic electron plasmas, also referred to as current-filamentation instability, is studied in a constant and uniform external magnetic field aligned with the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Grassi , M. Grech , F. Amiranoff , F. Pegoraro , A. Macchi , C. Riconda

Plasmas with electromagnetic fields turbulent at sub-Larmor-scales are a feature of a wide variety of high-energy-density environments, and are essential to the description of many astrophysical/laboratory plasma phenomena. Radiation from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Brett D. Keenan , Alexander L. Ford , Mikhail V. Medvedev