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The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

While collisionless plasmas are ubiquitously present near astrophysical compact objects, the impact that their composition has on the high-energy emission is presently unknown. We present the first investigation of particle-acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Claudio Meringolo , Mario Imbrogno , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Sergio Servidio , Luciano Rezzolla

Electron dynamics and energization are one of the key components of magnetic field dissipation in collisionless reconnection. In 2D numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection, the main mechanism that limits the current density and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 F. Pucci , S. Usami , H. Ji , X. Guo , R. Horiuchi , S. Okamura , W. Fox , J. Jara-Almonte , M. Yamada , J. Yoo

In solar flares and other astrophysical systems, a major challenge for solving particle acceleration problem associated with magnetic reconnection is the enormous scale separation between kinetic scales and observed reconnection scale.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-08 Xiaocan Li , Fan Guo , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

Electron accelerations at high Mach number collision-less shocks are investigated by means of two-dimensional electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell simulations with various Alfven Mach numbers, ion-to-electron mass ratios, and the upstream…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-01 Yosuke Matsumoto , Takanobu Amano , Masahiro Hoshino

Direct laser acceleration (DLA) offers a compact source of high-charge, energetic electrons for generating secondary radiation or neutrons. While DLA in high-density plasma optimizes the energy transfer from a laser pulse to electrons, it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Talia Meir , Kale Weichman , Alexey Arefiev , John P. Palastro , Ishay Pomerantz

Magnetic reconnection, the rearrangement of magnetic field topology, is a fundamental physical process in magnetized plasma systems all over the universe1,2. Its process is difficult to be directly observed. Coronal structures, such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Leping Li , Jun Zhang , Hardi Peter , Eric Priest , Huadong Chen , Lijia Guo , Feng Chen , Duncan Mackay

We investigate shock structure and particle acceleration in relativistic magnetized collisionless electron-ion shocks by means of 2.5D particle-in-cell simulations with ion-to-electron mass ratios (m_i/m_e) ranging from 16 to 1000. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The 2003 October 28 (X17.2) eruptive flare was a unique event. The coronal electric field and the {\pi}-decay {\gamma}-ray emission flux had the highest values ever inferred in solar flares. This study reveals physical links between the…

The early acceleration of protons and electrons in the nonrelativistic collisionless shocks with three obliquities are investigated through 1D particle-in-cell simulations. In the simulations, the charged particles possessing a velocity of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Jun Fang , Chun-Yan Lu , Jing-Wen Yan , Huan Yu

A model of nonlinear electromagnetic fields with a dimensional parameter $\beta$ is proposed. From PVLAS experiment the bound on the parameter $\beta$ was obtained. Electromagnetic fields are coupled with the gravitation field and we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-15 S. I. Kruglov

An electron mobility enhancement is the very important phenomenon of an electron in the electronic device, where the high electronic device performance has the good electron mobility, which is obtained by the overall electron drift velocity…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-13 N. Pornsuwancharoen , P. Youplao , I. S. Amiri , J. Ali , P. Yupapin

Magnetic reconnection, a fundamentally important process in many aspects of astrophysics, is believed to be initiated by the tearing instability of an electric current sheet, a region where magnetic field abruptly changes direction and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 James Leake , Lars Daldorff , James Klimchuk

We develop a model for stochastic acceleration of electrons in solar flares. As in several previous models, the electrons are accelerated by turbulent fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") via transit-time-damping (TTD) interactions. (In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Peera Pongkitiwanichakul , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Using a kinetic simulation of magnetic reconnection it was recently shown that magnetic-field-aligned electric fields (E||) can be present over large spatial scales in reconnection exhausts. The largest values of E|| are observed within…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Jan Egedal , William Daughton , Ari Le , Anette L Borg

Fermi acceleration is believed as a crucial process for the acceleration of energetic electrons within flux ropes (FRs) during magnetic reconnection. However, in finite-length FRs with a large core field, the finite contracting and the…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Z. H. Zhong , H. Zhang , M. Zhou , D. B. Graham , R. X. Tang , X. H. Deng , Yu. V. Khotyaintsev

Solar flares are accessible to a broad variety of observational methods to see and investigate the {\em magnetic reconnection} phenomenon in high-temperature strongly-magnetized plasma of the solar corona. An analysis of the topological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-30 Boris V. Somov

A long laser beam propagating through an underdense plasma produces a positively charged ion channel by expelling plasma electrons in the transverse direction. We consider the dynamics of a test electron in a resulting two-dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexey V. Arefiev , Vladimir N. Khudik , Marius Schollmeier

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process that converts magnetic energy into bulk flow energy, thermal energy, and nonthermal particle acceleration. Despite its importance, the statistical properties of the turbulent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Yue Hu , Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi , Siyao Xu

Surface plasmon (SP) excitation in intense laser interaction with solid target can be exploited for enhancing secondary emissions, in particular efficient acceleration of high charge electron bunches. Previous studies have mostly used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 J. Sarma , A. McIlvenny , N. Das , M. Borghesi , A. Macchi
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