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From kinetic Vlasov equation for collisional plasmas distribution function in square-law approximation on sizes of intensivities of electric fields is received. The known integral of collisions of relaxation type, so-called BGK (Bhatnagar,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

A multispecies, collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. Assuming that the electric field decays with sufficient rapidity as $t \to\infty$, we show that the velocity characteristics and spatial averages of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Stephen Pankavich

The first nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations obtained using a moment approach based on the Hermite-Laguerre decomposition of the distribution function are presented, implementing advanced models for the collision operator. Turbulence in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 A. C. D. Hoffmann , B. J. Frei , P. Ricci

We investigate the transformation of the distribution function in the relativistic case, a problem of interest in plasma when particles with high (relativistic) velocities come into play as for instance in radiation belt physics, in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 R. A. Treumann , R. Nakamura , W. Baumjohann

In this paper, we study the energy conversion and spectra in a corona current sheet by 2.5-dimensional MHD numerical simulations. Numerical results show that many Petschek-like fine structures with slow-mode shocks mediated by plasmoid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-29 Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Zhixing Mei , Yan Li

We present a non-perturbative calculation of the 1-point probability distribution function (PDF) for the spherically-averaged matter density field. The PDF is represented as a path integral and is evaluated using the saddle-point method. It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Alexander A. Kaurov , Sergey Sibiryakov

Within the framework of large momentum effective theory (LaMET), we propose a hard-collinear factorization formula to extract the subleading-twist $B$-meson light-cone distribution amplitude (LCDA) from the quasidistribution amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Shu-Man Hu , Wei Wang , Ji Xu , Shuai Zhao

The frequency-dependent response of a one-dimensional fermion system is investigated using Current Density Functional Theory (CDFT) within the local approximation (LDA). DFT-LDA, and in particular CDFT-LDA, reproduces very well the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-04-01 Michael Dzierzawa , Ulrich Eckern , Stefan Schenk , Peter Schwab

In a collisionless plasma, the energy distribution function of plasma particles can be strongly affected by turbulence. In particular, it can develop a non-thermal power-law tail at high energies. We argue that turbulence with initially…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn , Mikhail Medvedev

The generalized quantal distribution functions are investigated concerning systems of non-interacting bosons and fermions. The formulae for the number of particles and energy are presented and applications to the Chandrasekhar limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Diego F. Torres , Ugur Tirnakli

Phase retrieval from phaseless short-time Fourier transform (STFT) measurements is known to be inherently unstable when measurements are taken with respect to a single window. While an explicit inversion formula exists, it is useless in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Rima Alaifari , Yunan Yang

Simulations of plasma turbulence in a linear plasma device configuration are presented. These simulations are based on a simplified version of the gyrokinetic (GK) model proposed by B. J. Frei et al. [J. Plasma Phys. 86, 905860205 (2020)]…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 B. J. Frei , J. Mencke , P. Ricci

Starting from the equations of collisionless linear gyrokinetics for magnetised plasmas with an imposed inhomogeneous magnetic field, we present the first known analytical, closed-form solution for the resulting velocity-space integrals in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 P. G. Ivanov , T. Adkins

Starting with the average particle distribution function for bosons and fermions for non-extensive thermodynamics , as proposed in \cite{CMP}, we obtain the corresponding density matrix operators and hamiltonians. In particular, for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Marcelo R. Ubriaco

Recent results of numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations suggest that in collisionless space plasmas turbulence can spontaneously generate thin current sheets. These coherent structures can partially explain intermittency and the…

Analytical formulae for triple differential distributions ${\rm d}^3\sigma/({\rm d}\cos\theta{\rm d}s_1{\rm d}s_2)$ in the neutral current process $e^+e^-\rightarrow f_1\bar f_1 f_2\bar f_2$ are given. They allow to obtain angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Arnd Leike

Perturbation theory makes it possible to calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of the large scale density field in the small variance limit. For top hat smoothing and scale-free Gaussian initial fluctuations, the result…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Colombi , F. Bernardeau , F. R. Bouchet , L. Hernquist

Motivated by applications in Bayesian analysis we introduce a multidimensional beta distribution in an ordered simplex. We study properties of this distribution and connect them with the generalized incomplete beta function. This function…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-02 Mayad Al-Saidi , Alexey Kuznetsov , Mikhail Nediak

Let $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ be a random sample from the Gamma distribution with density $f(x)=\lambda^{\alpha}x^{\alpha-1}e^{-\lambda x}/\Gamma(\alpha)$, $x>0$, where both $\alpha>0$ (the shape parameter) and $\lambda>0$ (the reciprocal scale…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Nickos Papadatos

Kappa-distributed velocities in plasmas are common in a wide variety of settings, from low-density to high-density plasmas. To date, they have been found mainly in space plasmas, but are recently being considered also in the modelling of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sergio Davis , Gonzalo Avaria , Biswajit Bora , Jalaj Jain , José Moreno , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto