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We consider a further extension of our previous works in the treatment of the three-dimensional general relativistic Poynting-Robertson effect, which describes the motion of a test particle around a compact object as affected by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 Vittorio De Falco , Maciek Wielgus

The main issue of the pulsar magnetosphere is how the rotation power is converted into both particle beams which causes pulsed emissions, and a highly relativistic wind of electron-positron plasmas which forms surrounding nebulae shining in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Tomohide Wada , Shinpei Shibata

Strong magnetically dominated Alfv\'enic turbulence is an efficient engine of non-thermal particle acceleration in a relativistic collisionless plasma. We argue that in the limit of strong magnetization, the type of energy distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn

In this paper, the collective dynamics of the large aspect ratio dusty plasma is studied over a wide range of discharge parameters. An inductively coupled diffused plasma, which creates an electrostatic trap to confine the negatively…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Mangilal Choudhary , S. Mukherjee , P. Bandyopadhyay

Twisted, or vortex, particles refer to freely propagating non-plane-wave states with helicoidal wave fronts. In this state, the particle possesses a non-zero orbital angular momentum with respect to its average propagation direction.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Igor P. Ivanov , Nikolai Korchagin , Alexandr Pimikov , Pengming Zhang

Angular momentum and torque are important principles for basic and applied physics on any spatial scales, for example, in elementary particles, cold gases, optical tweezers, quantum information technology, metamaterials, gyroscopes or…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-16 Y. Fang , J. Kuttruff , P. Baum

We study the transport of a spin-orbit-coupled atomic matter wave using a moving Dirac $\delta$-potential well. In a spin-orbit-coupled system, bound states can be formed in both ground and excited energy levels with a Dirac $\delta$…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-08 Jieli Qin , Lu Zhou

Rich observational phenomenology associated with Pulsar B in PSR J0737$-$3039A/B system resembles in many respects phenomena observed in the Earth and Jupiter magnetospheres, originating due to the wind-magnetosphere interaction. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Maxim Lyutikov

We perform 2D and 3D kinetic simulations of reconnection-mediated turbulent flares in a magnetized electron-positron plasma, with weak and strong radiative cooling. Such flares can be generated around neutron stars and accreting black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 J. Nättilä , A. M. Beloborodov

General relativistic quantum dynamics of twisted (vortex) Dirac particles is constructed. The Hamiltonian and equations of motion in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation are derived for a twisted relativistic electron in arbitrary electric…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Alexander J. Silenko , Pengming Zhang , Liping Zou

The control of spin and orbital angular momentum without relying on magnetic materials is commonly accomplished by breaking of inversion symmetry, which enables charge-to-spin conversion and spin selectivity in electron transfer processes…

Single particle states in the atomic trap employing the rotating magnetic field are found using the full time-dependent instantaneous trapping potential. These states are compared with those of the effective time-averaged potential. We show…

Illumination of a two-dimensional system by a twisted light beam is considered in order to find specific effects caused by twisting. Direct interband transitions between the valence and conduction bands are supposed. The generation rates of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 L. S. Braginsky , M. M. Mahmoodian , L. I. Magarill , M. V. Entin

In this report, we present a dynamical systems' approach to study the exact nonlinear wave-particle interaction in relativistic regime. We give a particular attention to the effect of wave obliquity on the dynamics of the orbits by studying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 A. Osmane , A. M. Hamza

The self-organization of magnetospheric plasma is brought about by inward diffusion of magnetized particles. Not only creating a density gradient toward the center of a dipole magnetic field, the inward diffusion also accelerates particles…

Rotating turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. Previous works suggest that such turbulence could be described as an ensemble of interacting inertial waves across a wide range of length scales. For turbulence in macroscopic quantum…

White dwarf-neutron star binaries generate detectable gravitational radiation. We construct Newtonian equilibrium models of corotational white dwarf-neutron star (WDNS) binaries in circular orbit and find that these models terminate at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-22 Vasileios Paschalidis , Morgan MacLeod , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

We develop a waveform model to describe the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary systems with comparable and intermediate mass-ratios. This model incorporates first-order conservative self-force corrections to the energy and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-11 E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar , Jonathan R. Gair , Sean T. McWilliams

A new mechanism of particle acceleration to ultra high energies, driven by the rotational slow down of a pulsar (Crab pulsar, for example), is explored. The rotation, through the time dependent centrifugal force, can very efficiently excite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-11 Swadesh Mahajan , George Machabeli , Zaza Osmanov , Nino Chkheidze

We study here the curious particle dynamics resulting from electro-osmotic flow around a microchannel junction corner whose dielectric walls are weakly polarizable. The hydrodynamic velocity field is obtained via superposition of a linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Matan Zehavi , Gilad Yossifon