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Using the hydrodynamic model in the electrostatic approximation, we describe the formation of graphene surface plasmons when a charge is in motion either perpendicular or parallel to a graphene sheet. In the first case, the electron-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , N. Asger Mortensen

Using the high temperature approximation we study, within the linear response theory, the wake in the quark-gluon plasma by a fast parton owing to dynamical screening in the space like region. When the parton moves with a speed less than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Purnendu Chakraborty , Munshi G. Mustafa , Markus H. Thoma

The wake following a vessel in water is a signature interference effect of moving bodies, and, as described by Lord Kelvin, is contained within a constant universal angle. However, wakes may accompany different kinds of moving disturbances…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-09 Matthew Wampler , Peter Schauss , Eugene B Kolomeisky , Israel Klich

From the analysis of a set of airborne images of ship wakes, we show that the wake angles decrease as $U^{-1}$ at large velocities, in a way similar to the Mach cone for supersonic airplanes. This previously unnoticed Mach-like regime is in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marc Rabaud , Frédéric Moisy

We determine experimentally the angle $\alpha$ of maximum wave amplitude in the far-field wake behind a vertical surface-piercing cylinder translated at constant velocity $U$ for Bond numbers $\mathrm{Bo}_D = D / \lambda_c$ ranging between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Moisy , M. Rabaud

Excitations in the form of quantized vortex rings are known to exist in superfluid $^{4}He$ at energies and momenta exceeding those of the Landau phonon-roton spectrum. They form a vortex branch of elementary excitations spectrum which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Eugene B. Kolomeisky

The wake behind a large object (such as the moon) moving rapidly through a plasma (such as the solar wind) contains a region of depleted density, into which the plasma expands along the magnetic field, transverse to the flow. It is shown…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 I. H. Hutchinson

According to Kelvin, a point pressure source uniformly traveling over the surface of deep calm water leaves behind universal wake pattern confined within $39^{\circ}$ sector and consisting of the so-called transverse and diverging…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-16 Jonathan Colen , Eugene B. Kolomeisky

In this Research Perspective, we briefly review the diffusion wake, a distinctive consequence of the Mach-cone wake induced by the supersonic jets in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The diffusion wake depletes soft hadrons in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Zhong Yang , Xin-Nian Wang

Electron skew scattering by impurities is one of the major mechanisms behind the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic nanostructures. It is particularly strong at the surface of topological insulators where electron dynamics is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Cooper Finnigan , Dmitry K. Efimkin

Gravity waves generated by an object moving at constant speed at the water surface form a specific pattern commonly known as the Kelvin wake. It was proved by Lord Kelvin that such a wake is delimited by a constant angle $\simeq…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-27 Alexandre Darmon , Michael Benzaquen , Elie Raphaël

A century-long argument made by Lord Kelvin that all swimming objects have an effective Mach number of 3, corresponding to the Kelvin angle of 19.5 degree for ship waves, has been recently challenged with the conclusion that the Kelvin…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Xihang Shi , Xiao Lin , Fei Gao , Hongyi Xu , Zhaoju Yang , Baile Zhang

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 diffusion wake accompanying the jet-induced Mach cone provides a unique probe of the properties of quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It can be characterized by a depletion of soft hadrons in the opposite direction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-15 Zhong Yang , Tan Luo , Wei Chen , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

An interaction of upstream extra particles with a monolayer highly-ordered complex plasma is studied. A principally new abnormal turbulent wake formed behind the supersonic upstream particle is discovered. An anomalous type of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 S. Zhdanov , C. -R. Du , M. Schwabe , V. Nosenko , H. M. Thomas , G. E. Morfill

Surface modes are coupled electromagnetic/electrostatic excitations of free electrons near the vacuum-plasma interface and can be excited on a sufficiently dense plasma half-space. They propagate along the surface plane and decay in either…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Lazar , P. K. Shukla , A. Smolyakov

The surface gravity wave pattern that forms behind a steadily moving disturbance is well known to comprise divergent waves and transverse waves, contained within a distinctive V-shaped wake. In this paper, we are concerned with a…

A Hamiltonian two-field gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs) in a magnetized electron-proton plasma, retaining ion finite-Larmor-radius corrections and parallel magnetic field fluctuations, is used to study the inverse cascades…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 George Miloshevich , Dimitri Laveder , Thierry Passot , Pierre-Louis Sulem

The excitation of electromagnetic (EM) wake waves in electron plasma by an one-dimensional bunch of charged particles has been considered in the presence of intense monochromatic circularly polarized electromagnetic (CPEM) pump wave. In the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Elbakian , H. B. Nersisyan

We develop an analytical method to find plasmons generated by microwaves in a two-dimensional electron gas with defects. The excitations are expressed in terms of the wake field of a charged particle moving in plasma. The result explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Eduard Takhtamirov , Roderick V. N. Melnik
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