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By employing a local two-fluid theory, we investigate an obliquely propagating electromagnetic instability in the lower hybrid frequency range driven by cross-field current or relative drifts between electrons and ions. The theory…

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The study of the evolution of a suprathermal electron beam traveling through a background plasma is relevant for the physics of solar flares and their associated type III solar radio bursts. As they evolve guided by the coronal magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto M. Vasquez , Daniel O. Gomez

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

The two-stream instability (Buneman instability) is traditionally derived as a collisionless instability with the presumption that collisions inhibit this instability. We show here via a combination of a collisional two-fluid model and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Yi Zhou , Paul M. Bellan

Linear acceleration emission is one of the mechanisms that might explain intense coherent emissions of radio pulsars. This mechanism is not well understood, however, because the effects of collective plasma response and nonlinear plasma…

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The quantum hydrodynamic model of the electrostatic waves in the two parallel layers of two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) is developed. It is considered for two regimes: classic regime and quantum regime with the separate spin…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Pavel A. Andreev , T. G. Kiriltseva , Punit Kumar , L. S. Kuz'menkov

The power of second harmonic electromagnetic emission is calculated for the case when strong plasma turbulence is excited by a powerful electron beam in a magnetized plasma. It is shown that the simple analytical model of strong plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 I. V. Timofeev

The conditions for the excitation of current and voltage oscillations in the plasma of a three-electrode current and voltage stabilizer are experimentally investigated. It was found that in the regimes under consideration, the plasma has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 A. S. Mustafaev , A. Yu. Grabovskiy , B. D. Klimenkov

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

We review the modulation stability of parallel propagating/field aligned Whistler Mode Chorus waves propagating in a warm plasma from a formal perspective with a focus on wave-particle interactions. The modulation instability criteria is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Daniel Ratliff , Oliver Allanson

Depending on the physical conditions involved the beam plasma systems may reveal new unstable regimes triggered by the wave instabilities of different nature. We show through linear theory and numerical simulations the existence of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 R. A. López , M. Lazar , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , P. S. Moya

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

A potential resolution for the generation of coherent radio emission in pulsar plasma is the existence of relativistic charge solitons, which are solutions of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE). In an earlier study, Melikidze et al.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Taras Lakoba , Dipanjan Mitra , George Melikidze

It is argued and demonstrated by particle-in-cell simulations that the synchrotron maser instability could develop at the front of a relativistic, magnetized shock. The instability generates strong low-frequency electromagnetic waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Lyubarsky

Electron beams in two-dimensional systems can provide a useful tool to study energy-momentum relaxation of electrons and to generate microwave radiation stemming from plasma-beam instabilities. Naturally, these two applications cannot…

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We examine the electron-ion streaming instabilities driven by drift velocities of the order of the electron thermal velocity in a nonmagnetized plasma by one-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell code which adopts an ion-to-electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jun Guo , Bo Li

The quantum mechanical effect on the plasma two-stream instability is studied based on the dielectric function approach. The analysis suggests that the degenerate plasma relevant to the inertial confinement fusion behaves differently from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Son

We study stable axially and spherically symmetric spatial solitons in plasma with diatomic ions. The stability of a soliton against the collapse is provided by the interaction of induced electric dipole moments of ions with rapidly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Maxim Dvornikov

Propagation of Langmuir solitons in inhomogeneous plasmas is investigated numerically. Through numerical simulation solving Zakharov equations, the solitons are accelerated toward the low density side. As a consequence, isolated cavities…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Y. A. Chen , Y. Nishimura , Y. Nishida , C. Z. Cheng

The interaction of coherent nonlinear structures (such as sub-cycle solitons, electron vortices and wake Langmuir waves) with a strong wake wave in a collisionless plasma can be exploited in order to produce ultra-short electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , F. F. Kamenets , F. Pegoraro