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Ion-acoustic modes propagating in unmagnetized dusty plasmas are studied by applying a generic collisionless fluid model. An Eulerian-to-Lagrangean variable transformation leads to a new system of evolution equations, which may be combined…

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In this review we give an overview of recent work on quantum kinetic theories of plasmas. We focus, in particular, on the case where the electrons are fully degenerate. For such systems, perturbation methods using the distribution function…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Gert Brodin , Robin Ekman , Jens Zamanian

A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE) has been derived by employing reductive perturbation method for investigating the modulational instability of dust-ion-acoustic waves (DIAWs) in a four-component plasma having stationary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 S. Banik , R. K. Shikha , A. A. Noman , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , T. S. Roy , A. A. Mamun

Using analytical theory and hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations, we demonstrate that, in a collisionless plasma, long-wavelength ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) with amplitudes $\delta n/n_0 \gtrsim 2/\beta$ (where $\beta\gg{1}$ is the ratio of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 M. W. Kunz , J. Squire , A. A. Schekochihin , E. Quataert

Based on the quantum hydrodynamic model, a new relationship between the electrostatic-potential and the electron-density in the ultra-dense plasma is derived. Propagation of arbitrary amplitude nonlinear ion waves is, then, investigated in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-21 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Interaction of external monochromatic, linearly polorized plane EM-wave with nonlinear one-dimensional wake wave, generated by relativistic electron bunch moving in cold plasma, is considered. At definite conditions on parameters of plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ts. Amatuni

Electron-beam plasma interaction has long been a topic of great interest. Despite the success of Quasi-Linear (QL) theory and Weak Turbulence (WT) theory, their validities are limited by the requirement of sufficiently dense mode spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Haomin Sun , Jian Chen , Igor D. Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Dmytro Sydorenko

We examine dust acoustic (DA) solitary structures in an unmagnetized, collisionless dusty electron positron ion (epi) plasma in which electrons and positrons are described by finite temperature Fermi Dirac statistics and ions obey a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Rupak Dey , Gadadhar Banerjee

The propagation of electrostatic waves in an unmagnetized collisionless pair-ion plasma with immobile positively charged dusts is studied for both large- and small-amplitude perturbations. Using a two-fluid model for pair-ions, it is shown…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 A. P. Misra , N. C. Adhikary

The nonlinear propagation of electromagnetic (EM) electron-cyclotron waves (whistlers) along an external magnetic field, and their modulation by electrostatic small but finite amplitude ion-acoustic density perturbations are investigated in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 A. P. Misra , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla

Turbulent, relativistic nonthermal plasmas are ubiquitous in high-energy astrophysical systems, as inferred from broadband nonthermal emission spectra. The underlying turbulent nonthermal particle acceleration (NTPA) processes have…

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A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a magnetized plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , G. Brodin , M. Servin

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas, where the wave frequency, $\omega_0$, is much larger than the plasma frequency, $\omega_{\rm P}$. We show that in pair plasmas nonlinear effects are weak for $a_0 \ll…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-09 Emanuele Sobacchi , Masanori Iwamoto , Lorenzo Sironi , Tsvi Piran

Using a two-fluid approach, we consider the properties of relativistically nonlinear (arbitrary $a_0$), circularly polarized \EM\ waves propagating along magnetic field in electron-ion and pair plasmas. Dispersion relations depend on how…

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A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a plasma is reported. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon scattering is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Lennart Stenflo , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund , Padma K. Shukla

The impacts of dust density inhomogeneity and dust size distribution (DSD) on linear dust acoustic (DA) wave propagation have been investigated theoretically in an inhomogeneous unmagnetized dusty plasma having powerlaw DSD. Two different…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Gadadhar Banerjee , Sarit Maitra , Chitrita Dasgupta

In simulations of a 12.5PW laser (focused intensity I = 4x10^23W/cm^2) striking a solid aluminium target 10% of the laser energy is converted to gamma-rays. A dense electron-positron plasma is generated with a maximum density of 10^26/m^3;…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 C. P. Ridgers , C. S. Brady , R. Duclous , J. G. Kirk , K. Bennett , T. D. Arber , A. R. Bell

Arbitrary amplitude ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) are studied using Sagdeev-Potential approach in electron-positron-ion plasma with ultra-relativistic or non-relativistic degenerate electrons and positrons and the matching criteria of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-18 Abdolrasoul Esfandyari-Kalejahi , Massoud Akbari-Moghanjoughi , Ehsan Saberian

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in plasma in the degenerate regime is studied theoretically and numerically. Different from normal SRS with the non-degenerate eigen electrostatic mode excited, the degenerate SRS is developed at plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Yao Zhao , Suming Weng , Zhengming Sheng , Jianqiang Zhu