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The propagation of ionic perturbations in a dusty plasma is considered through a three-species kinetic simulation approach, in which the temporal evolution of all three elements i.e. electrons, ions and dust particles are followed based on…

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The dispersion relation of kinetic Alfv\'en wave in inertial regime is studied in a three component non-degenerate streaming plasma. A lin- ear dispersion relation using fluid- Vlasov equation for quantum plasma is also derived. The quantum…

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Relativistic magnetically dominated turbulence is an efficient engine for particle acceleration in a collisionless plasma. Ultrarelativistic particles accelerated by interactions with turbulent fluctuations form non-thermal power-law…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn

We study collective processes for an electron beam propagating through a background plasma using simulations and analytical theory. A new regime where the instability of a Langmuir wave packet can grow locally much faster than ion frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Haomin Sun , Jian Chen , Igor D. Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Dmytro Sydorenko

The dust-acoustic waves and their stability in the permeating dusty plasma with the Maxwellian velocity distribution are investigated. We derive the dust-acoustic wave frequency and instability growth rate in two limiting physical cases…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Zhipeng Liu , Jiulin Du

The impacts of dust density inhomogeneity and dust size distribution (DSD) on linear dust acoustic (DA) wave propagation have been investigated theoretically in an inhomogeneous unmagnetized dusty plasma having powerlaw DSD. Two different…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Gadadhar Banerjee , Sarit Maitra , Chitrita Dasgupta

We analyze the interaction of a cold fast electron beam with a thermalized plasma, in the presence of many Langmuir modes. The work aims at characterizing the deviation of the system behavior from the single mode approximation, both with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Nakia Carlevaro , Giovanni Montani , Davide Terzani

It is not fully understood how electromagnetic waves propagate through plasma density fluctuations when the size of the fluctuations is comparable with the wavelength of the incident radiation. In this paper, the perturbing effect of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Alf Köhn , Eberhard Holzhauer , Jarrod Leddy , Matthew B Thomas , Roddy G L Vann

We consider a situation in when the interaction of relativistically intense EM waves with an isotropic electron positron plasma takes place, i.e.,we consider short pulse lasers with intensity up to 1021 W/cm2, in which the photon density is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Zahida Ehsan , N. L. Tsintsadze

Runaway electrons are known to provide robust ideal or collisionless kinetic drive for plasma wave instabilities in both the whistler and slow-X branches, via the anomalous Doppler-shifted cyclotron resonances. In a cold and dense…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Qile Zhang , Yanzeng Zhang , Xian-Zhu Tang

Linearly polarized solitary waves, arising from the interaction of an intense laser pulse with a plasma, are investigated. New localized structures, in the form of exact \Changes{numerical} nonlinear solutions of the one-dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 G. Sánchez-Arriaga , E. Siminos , V. Saxena , I. Kourakis

Propagation of radio emission in pulsar magnetosphere is reviewed. The effects of polarization transfer, induced scattering and reprocessing to high energies are analysed with an especial emphasis on the implications for the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-22 S. A. Petrova

Frequency dependence of pulsar linear polarization is investigated by simulations of emission and propagation processes. Linearly polarized waves are generated through curvature radiation by relativistic particles streaming along curved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 P. F. Wang , C. Wang , J. L. Han

The nonlinear dynamics of pulses in a two-temperature collisionless plasma with formation of dispersion shock waves is studied. An analytical description is given for arbitrary form of an initial disturbance with smooth enough density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Sergey K. Ivanov , Anatoly M. Kamchatnov

In the study of plasma, particularly in applications involving strong laser-plasma interactions, the propagation of a strong electromagnetic wave induces relativistic velocities in the electron flow. Given such conditions, the wave…

A uniform in space, oscillatory in time plasma equilibrium sustained by a time-dependent current density is analytically and numerically studied resorting to particle-in-cell simulations. The dispersion relation is derived from the Vlasov…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Luis O. Silva

Propagation of radio waves in the ultrarelativistic magnetized electron-positron plasma of pulsar magnetosphere is considered. Polarization state of the original natural waves is found to vary markedly on account of the wave mode coupling…

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Radio pulses from pulsars are affected by plasma dispersion, which results in a frequency-dependent propagation delay. Variations in the magnitude of this effect lead to an additional source of red noise in pulsar timing experiments,…

Although the accurate description of the wave propagation and absorption in plasmas requires complicated full wave solutions or kinetic simulations, the local dispersion analysis can still be helpful to capture the main physics of wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Huasheng Xie , Haojie Ma , Yukun Bai

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas, where the wave frequency, $\omega_0$, is much larger than the plasma frequency, $\omega_{\rm P}$. We show that in pair plasmas nonlinear effects are weak for $a_0 \ll…

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