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The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

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Ionization is a fundamental process in intense laser-matter interactions, and is known to cause plasma defocusing and intensity clamping. Here, we investigate theoretically the propagation dynamics of an intense laser pulse in a helium gas…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-25 Xiaohui Gao , Bonggu Shim

The presence of neutral species in a plasma has been shown to greatly affect the properties of magnetohydrodynamic waves. For instance, the interaction between ions and neutrals through momentum transfer collisions causes the damping of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-16 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Liquid atomic metallic hydrogen is the simplest, lightest, and most abundant of all liquid metals. The role of nucleon motions or ion dynamics has been somewhat ignored in relation to the dissociative insulator-metal transition. Almost all…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-12 Mohamed Zaghoo , Rachel Husband , Isaac F. Silvera

The highly advanced treatment of surfaces as etching and deposition is mainly enabled by the extraordinary properties of technological plasmas. The primary factors that influence these processes are the flux and the energy of various…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Thomas Mussenbrock

To address the long-standing unresolved issue of "isotope effect" in plasma transport, this study investigates the hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) isotope dependence of a nonlinear turbulence system. The analysis focuses on the zonal flow (ZF)…

In this paper, we study the effects of an in-homogeneous magnetic field on the quark gluon plasma dynamics, within the Magneto-Hydrodynamic framework. We have investigated the effect of an inhomogeneous external magnetic field on the…

The effect of the finite ion Larmor radius on the dynamics of two counterstreaming weakly collisional plasma flows in a magnetic field of an arch configuration is considered. Hybrid numerical simulations show that in a system whose…

Prominences or filaments are cool clouds of partially ionized plasma living in the solar corona. Ground- and space-based observations have confirmed the presence of oscillatory motions in prominences and they have been interpreted in terms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Roberto Soler , Jose Luis Ballester

It has been recently predicted theoretically that due to nuclear motion light and heavy hydrogen molecules exposed to strong electric field should exhibit substantially different tunneling ionization rates (O.I. Tolstikhin, H.J. Worner and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 X. Wang , H. Xu , A. Atia-Tul-Noor , B. T. Hu , D. Kielpinski , R. T. Sang , I. V. Litvinyuk

We demonstrate that the nontrivial dispersion of a plasma driven by a high-intensity laser pulse qualitatively affects fundamental nonperturbative QED processes triggered by the laser pulse even in the case that no electrons remain in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 F. Mackenroth

The ionization dynamic of argon plasma irradiated by an intense laser is investigated to understand transient physics in dynamic systems. This study demonstrates that significant delayed ionization responses and stepwise ionization…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 M. S. Cho , A. L. Milder , W. Rozmus , H. P. Le , H. A. Scott , D. T. Bishel , D. Turnbull , S. B. Libby , M. E. Foord

Oscillations and propagating waves are commonly seen in high-resolution observations of filament threads, i.e., the fine-structures of solar filaments/prominences. Since the temperature of prominences is typically of the order of 10^4 K,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Soler , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

Recent JWST observations of HII regions in the Central Molecular Zone have shown a highly filamentary morphology distinct from HII regions in other parts of the galaxy. We present magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of strongly magnetized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Samuel Crowe , Yisheng Tu , Zhi-Yun Li , Jeong-Gyu Kim , John Bally

A high energy density plasma embedded in a neutral gas is able to launch an outward-propagating nonlinear electrostatic ionization wave that traps energetic electrons. The trapping maintains a strong sheath electric field, enabling rapid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Haotian Mao , Kathleen Weichman , Zheng Gong , Todd Ditmire , Hernan Quevedo , Alexey Arefiev

The ionization efficiency of helicon plasma discharge is explored by changing the low axial magnetic field gradients near the helicon antenna. The highest plasma density is found for a most possible diverging field near the antenna by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Sonu Yadav , Prabal K Chattopadhyay , Kshitish K. Barada , Soumen Ghosh , Joydeep Ghosh

It is demonstrated that the ionization events in the vicinity of a small floating grain can increase the ion flux to its surface. In this respect the effect of electron impact ionization is fully analogous to that of the ion-neutral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Sergey A. Khrapak , Gregor E. Morfill

In light of novel and past experimental results, we demonstrate how Weibel-mediated filamentary structures can develop in the expanding plasma plume of a laser-irradiated foil. The transverse ballistic cooling that occurs during the…

The effects of laser-plasma interactions (LPI) on the dynamics of inertial confinement fusion hohlraums is investigated via a new approach that self-consistently couples reduced LPI models into radiation-hydrodynamics numerical codes. The…

Scaling laws for the transport and heating of trace heavy ions in low-frequency, magnetized plasma turbulence are derived and compared with direct numerical simulations. The predicted dependences of turbulent fluxes and heating on ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Barnes , F. I. Parra , W. Dorland