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Plasma current filamentation of an ultrarelativistic electron beam impinging on an overdense plasma is investigated, with emphasis on radiation-induced electron polarization. Particle-in-cell simulations provide the classification and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Magnetic nozzles are a key component of electrodeless plasma thrusters, acting as their main acceleration stage. Non-stationary phenomena common to the entire range of $E \times B$ devices, such as oscillations and instabilities, are likely…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Matteo Ripoli , Eduardo Ahedo , Mario Merino

The fundamental higher-order Landau plasma modes are known to be generally heavily damped. We show that these modes for the ion component in a weakly ionized plasma can be substantially modified by ion-neutral collisions and a dc electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Roman Kompaneets , Alexei V. Ivlev , Sergey V. Vladimirov , Gregor E. Morfill

In both canonical ensemble and grand canonical ensemble, the thermodynamic stability and phase structure of Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg-AdS black hole are studied. We derive the Hawking temperature, Helmholtz free energy, Gibbs potential,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Yinan Zhao , Hongbo Cheng

Understanding the partitioning of turbulent energy between ions and electrons in weakly collisional plasmas is crucial for the accurate interpretation of observations and modelling of various astrophysical phenomena. Many such plasmas are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 T. Adkins , R. Meyrand , J. Squire

Emergent hydrodynamics (EHD) bridges short-time unitarity with late-time thermodynamics, universal transport phenomena characterize the manner and speed of transport and thermalization. Typical non-integrable systems with few conserved…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-23 Andrew Stasiuk , Garrett Heller , Lance Berkey , Bo Xing , Paola Cappellaro

Plasma dipole oscillation (PDO) depicted as harmonic motion of a spatially localized block of electrons has, until now, been hypothetical. In practice, the plasma oscillation occurs always as a part of a plasma wave. Studies on radiation…

We consider excitons in a two-dimensional periodic potential and study the linear response of the excitonic superfluid to an electromagnetic wave at low and high densities. It turns out that the static structure factor for small wavevectors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 O. L. Berman , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , Y. E. Lozovik , K. Ziegler

We study the linear stability of weakly magnetized differentially rotating plasmas in both collisionless kinetic theory and Braginskii's theory of collisional, magnetized plasmas. We focus on the very weakly magnetized limit that is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Eliot Quataert , Tobias Heinemann , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The discovery of long-lived electrostatic coherent structures with large-amplitude electric fields ($1 \leq E \leq 500 $ mV/m) by the Van Allen Probes has revealed alternative routes through which planetary radiation belts' acceleration can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Adnane Osmane , Drew L. Turner , Lynn B. Wilson , Andrew P. Dimmock , Tuija Pulkkinen

In the present paper we consider the nonlinear interaction of high frequency intense electromagnetic (EM) beam with degenerate electron plasmas. In a slowly varying envelop approximation the beam dynamics is described by the couple of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 V. I. Berezhiani , Z. N. Osmanov , S. M. Mahajan , S. V. Mikeladze

We investigate the energetics of the electron-hole liquid in stoichiometric divalent metal hexaborides. The ground state energy of an electron-hole plasma is calculated using RPA and Hubbard schemes and compared to the binding energy of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Zhitomirsky , T. M. Rice

The aim of this study is to analyze the destabilization of Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) by multiple energetic particles (EP) species in DIII-D and LHD discharges. We use the reduced MHD equations to describe the linear evolution of the poloidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia , Y. Todo , J. Huang , M. Murakami

Tokamak operational regimes with small edge localized modes (ELMs) could be a solution to the problem of large transient heat loads in future fusion reactors because they provide quasi-continuous exhaust while keeping a good plasma…

We study the formation of spontaneous spin polarization in inhomogeneous electron systems with pair interaction localized in a small region that is not separated by a barrier from surrounding gas of non-interacting electrons. Such a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Bagun S. Shchamkhalova

Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can be destabilized by energetic particles in neutral beam injection (NBI) heated plasmas through inverse Landau damping and couplings with gap modes in the shear Alfven continua. We describe the linear evolution of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 J. Varela , D. Spong , L. Garcia

Alfv\'en eigenmodes (AEs) and energetic particle modes (EPMs) are often excited by energetic particles (EPs) in tokamak plasmas. One of the main open questions concerning EP driven instabilities is the non-linear evolution of the mode…

Understanding electron and ion heating phenomenon in capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasma discharges is vital for many plasma processing applications. In this article, using particle-in-cell simulation technique we investigate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Sarveshwar Sharma , Nishant Sirse , Miles M Turner , Animesh Kuley

Hollow cathodes are becoming the bottleneck of many electric propulsion systems, because of the sputtering and erosion on both cathodes and thrusters from the generation of anomalously energetic ions. So far, it is believed that energetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yinjian Zhao , Baisheng Wang , Tianhang Meng

Self-trapping of an electron due to its interaction with bending fluctuations in a flexible crystalline membrane is considered. Due to the dependence of the electron energy on the corrugations of the membrane, the electron can create around…

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