English
Related papers

Related papers: Electron hole instability in linearly sub-critical…

200 papers

The selfgenerated wave fluctuations are particularly interesting in the solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas, where Coulomb collisions are rare and cannot explain the observed states of quasi-equilibrium. Linear theory predicts that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Lazar , S. Poedts , R. Schlickeiser , D. Ibscher

Eulerian simulations of the Vlasov-Poisson equations have been employed to analyze the excitation of slow electrostatic fluctuations (with phase speed close to the electron thermal speed), due to a beam-plasma interaction, and their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Karen Pommois , Francesco Valentini , Oreste Pezzi , Pierluigi Veltri

Suprathermal electrons and inertial drifting electrons, so called electron beam, are crucial to the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatic solitary waves observed in several astrophysical plasmas. In this paper, the propagation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Ashkbiz Danehkar

Electron acoustic waves (EAWs) are nonlinear plasma modes characterized by electron trapping, which suppresses the usual Landau damping. Despite being predicted in the 1990s, their excitation and decay mechanisms remain a subject of active…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 F. Valentini , T. M. O'Neil , D. H. Dubin

Many-component electron-hole plasma is considered in the Coupled Quantum Wells (CQW). It is found that the homogeneous state of the plasma is unstable if the carrier density is sufficiently small. The instability results in the breakdown…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 V. S. Babichenko , I. Ya. Polishchuk

Depending on the physical conditions involved the beam plasma systems may reveal new unstable regimes triggered by the wave instabilities of different nature. We show through linear theory and numerical simulations the existence of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 R. A. López , M. Lazar , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , P. S. Moya

The confinement of energetic particles (EP) is crucial for an efficient heating of tokamak plasmas. Plasma instabilities such as Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can redistribute the EP population making the plasma heating less effective, and leading…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 A. Biancalani , A. Bottino , M. Cole , C. Di Troia , Ph. Lauber , A. Mishchenko , B. Scott , F. Zonca

We discuss models of the modulational instability in a cold exciton system in coupled quantum wells. One mechanism involves exciton formation in a photoexcited electron-hole system in the presence of stimulated binding processes which build…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-13 L S Levitov , B D Simons , L V Butov

Electromagnetic (EM) instabilities and turbulence driven by the electron-temperature gradient are considered in a local slab model of a tokamak-like plasma. The model describes perturbations at scales both larger and smaller than the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 T. Adkins , A. A. Schekochihin , P. G. Ivanov , C. M. Roach

In the presence of non-minimal gravitational couplings, matter field perturbations on a static black hole spacetime may develop unphysical poles in their linearized equations. Physical solutions confined in the domain between the event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Hsu-Wen Chiang , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Aofei Sang

Global gyrokinetic simulations find a strong helically-trapped electron mode (HTEM) driven by density gradients in the optimized stellarator W7-X fusion experiment. The eigenmode structure localizes in the inner side of the torus with an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Javier H Nicolau , Xishuo Wei , Pengfei Liu , Gyungjin Choi , Zhihong Lin

The collision of two expanding plasma clouds is investigated, emphasizing instabilities and electron energization in the plasma mixing layer. This work is directly relevant to laboratory experiments with explosively-created laser or z-pinch…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 M. A. Malkov , V. I. Sotnikov

The electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in low-temperature plasmas exhibits features not fully captured by classical collisional models, particularly across the transition from kinetic to hydrodynamic regimes. This work attributes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Joel Saucedo , Uday Lamba , Hasitha Mahabaduge

Electron sheaths form near the surface of objects biased more positive than the plasma potential, such as in the electron saturation region of a Langmuir probe trace. Generally, the formation of electron sheaths requires that the…

When a laser field is incident on an overdense plasma it is unable to penetrate inside it. Nevertheless, a part of its energy gets transferred to the electrons through a variety of mechanisms (e.g. vacuum and $\vec{J}\times \vec{B}) heating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Amita Das

We report the results of a complete modal and nonmodal linear stability analysis of the electrohydrodynamic flow (EHD) for the problem of electroconvection in the strong injection region. Convective cells are formed by Coulomb force in an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mengqi Zhang , Fulvio Martinelli , Jian Wu , Peter J. Schmid , Maurizio Quadrio

In this paper, we address the theoretical resolution of the Vlasov-Gauss system from the linear regime to the strongly nonlinear one, when significant trapping has occurred. The electric field is that of a sinusoidal electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Didier Benisti

This paper explores the role of nonlinear electrodynamics on the stable configuration of thin-shell wormholes formulated from two equivalent geometries of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole with nonlinear electrodynamics. For this purpose, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Faisal Javed , G. Fatima , G. Mustafa , Ali Ovgun

We present a one-dimensional model which gives a novel physical interpretation to the specific state of an ensemble of electrons continuously injected into an electrostatic potential well immersed in a strong applied magnetic field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Y. Bliokh , J. G. Leopold , Ya. E. Krasik

We outline transient quasi-magnetostatic phenomena associated with Weibel-type instabilities, mainly, the formation and decay of the current sheets and filaments. We consider a collisionless anisotropic plasma cloud with hot electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Vladimir Kocharovsky , Anton Nechaev , Mikhail Garasev