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Magnetic Reconnection is an efficient and fast acceleration mechanism by means of direct electric field acceleration parallel to the magnetic field. Thus, acceleration of particles in reconnection regions is a very important topic in plasma…

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We report on experimental observations of flow induced large amplitude dust-acoustic shock waves (DASW) in a complex plasma. The experiments have been carried out in a $\Pi$ shaped DC glow discharge experimental device using kaolin…

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A vacuum-powered device that shoots ping pong balls at high subsonic speeds has been used for physics demonstrations for more than a decade. It uses physics that are easily understood by students, even though its operation is not…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-02-16 Mark French , Rajarshi Choudhuri , Jim Stratton , Craig Zehrung , Davin Huston

The expansion of a magnetized high-pressure plasma into a low-pressure ambient medium is examined with particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The magnetic field points perpendicularly to the plasma's expansion direction and binary collisions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Mark Eric Dieckmann , Gianluca Sarri , Domenico Doria , Anders Ynnerman , Marco Borghesi

A system of equal mixture of $^6Li$ atomic Fermi gas of two hyperfine states loaded into a cubic three-dimensional optical lattice is studied assuming a negative scattering length (BCS side of the Feshbach resonance). When the interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-09 Z. G. Koinov

The energy distributions of Ta ions produced in a nanosecond laser-heated plasma at 4$\times$10$^{15}$ W/cm$^{2}$ are experimentally and theoretically investigated. They are measured far from the target with an electrostatic spectrometer…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 F. Gobet , M. Comet , J-R. Marques , V. Meot , X. Raymond , M. Versteegen , J. -L. Henares , O. Morice

The self-diffusion phenomenon in a two-dimensional dusty plasma at extremely strong (effective) magnetic fields is studied experimentally and by means of molecular dynamics simulations. In the experiment the high magnetic field is…

Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are performed to study two-dimensional (2D) dusty plasma liquids. Based on the stochastic thermal motion of simulated particles, the longitudinal and transverse phonon spectra are calculated, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Zhenyu Ge , Dong Huang , Shaoyu Lu , Chen Liang , Matteo Baggioli , Yan Feng

Collisional plasma shocks generated from supersonic flows are an important feature in many astrophysical and laboratory high-energy-density plasmas. Compared to single-ion-species plasma shocks, plasma shock fronts with multiple ion species…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 F. Chu , A. L. LaJoie , B. D. Keenan , L. Webster , S. J. Langendorf , M. A. Gilmore

We consider the power coupled to the plasma from a cylindrical source emitting resonance cones, propagative slow waves which exist in low density magnetized plasmas when the signs of the Stix parameters S and P differ. In this work, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Wouter Tierens

Supersymmetric systems derive their properties from conserved supercharges which form a supersymmetric algebra. These systems naturally factorize into two subsystems, which, when considered as individual systems, have essentially the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 M. Lahrz , C. Weitenberg , L. Mathey

A high explosive shock tube of non-ideal gaseous plasma for proton radiography is described. The gas dynamic flow in the shock compressed xenon at initial pressure of 7 bar was investigated in the tube. The velocity of the shock wave in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 N. S. Shilkin , D. S. Yuriev , V. B. Mintsev

We briefly review the research on second sound in ultracold atomic physics, with emphasis on strongly interacting unitary Fermi gases with infinitely large $s$-wave scattering length. Second sound is a smoking-gun feature of superfluidity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-08 Hui Hu , Xing-Can Yao , Xia-Ji Liu

Bose condensation of quasiparticles in physical systems of finite size iz considered for the case of ferromagnetic thin films. It is shown that in accordance with present-day experimental capabilities which permit one to achieve densities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Bugrij , V. M. Loktev

Ultra-intense laser-matter interaction experiments (>10$^{18}$ W/cm$^{2}$) with dense targets are highly sensitive to the effect of laser "noise" (in the form of pre-pulses) preceding the main ultra-intense pulse. These system-dependent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Feister , J. A. Nees , J. T. Morrison , K. D. Frische , C. Orban , E. A. Chowdhury , W. M. Roquemore

The force on a microparticle in a complex plasma by streaming ions, the so-called ion drag force, is not well known. However, it is important for the understanding of interesting phenomena in complex plasmas such as the void formation under…

We establish the global existence and stability of a three-dimensional supersonic conic shock wave for a perturbed steady supersonic flow past an infinitely long circular cone with a sharp angle. The flow is described by a 3-D steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Jun Li , Ingo Witt , Huicheng Yin

The characteristic of the lateral interaction of two plasma plumes in $Ar$ background gas at high pressures was reported in recent publication [Yadav {\it et. al.}, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. {\bf 50}, 053421 (2017)]. Further we have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Sharad K. Yadav , R. K. Singh

We carry out 3D and 2D PIC-simulations of the expansion of a magnetized plasma that initially uniformly fills a half-space and contains a semi-cylindrical region of heated electrons elongated along the surface of the plasma boundary. This…

The frictionless motion of an object through a fluid medium is commonly viewed as a hallmark of superfluidity. According to Landau, kinematic constraints prohibit superfluid behavior in one-dimensional (1D) bosonic systems. Here, using…