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Coherent radio emission from pulsars originates from excited plasma waves in an ultra-relativistic and strongly magnetized electron-positron pair plasma streaming along the open magnetic field lines of the pulsar. Traditional coherent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

We investigate the propagation and nonlinear self-focusing of TW power laser pulses that create 10-m-scale, highly homogeneous plasma channels in rubidium vapor. Using computational solutions of the relevant propagation equations, we study…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Gabor Demeter

The interaction of a multi-Petawatt, pancake-shaped laser pulse with an unmagnetized plasma is studied analytically and numerically in the regime of fully relativistic electron jitter velocities and in the context of the laser wakefield…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 Dušan Jovanović , Renato Fedele , Milivoj Belić , Sergio De Nicola

It is shown that the dispersion relation for whistler waves is identical for a high or low beta plasma. Furthermore in the high-beta solar wind plasma whistler waves meet the Landau resonance with electrons for velocities less than the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Manish Mithaiwala , Leonid Rudakov , Chris Crabtree , Gurudas Ganguli

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a magnetized plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , G. Brodin , M. Servin

MHD waves can be responsible for plasma fluctuations and short-term variations of the pulsar emission. We consider the properties of plane and cylindrical waves that can exist in the force-free magnetosphere. Waves are considered by means…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Urpin

In this paper, we develop a model to describe the generalized wave-particle instability in a quasi-neutral plasma. We analyze the quasi-linear diffusion equation for particles by expressing an arbitrary unstable and resonant wave mode as a…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Seong-Yeop Jeong , Daniel Verscharen , Robert T. Wicks , Andrew N. Fazakerley

In the present work the linearized problem of plasma wave reflection from a boundary of a half--space is solved analytically. Specular accommodative conditions of plasma wave reflection from plasma boundary are taken into consideration.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. V. Gritsienko , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

Properties of two pulses propagating simultaneously in different dispersion regimes, anomalous and normal, in a Kerr-type planar waveguide are studied in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation. Catastrophic self-focusing and…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Monika E. Pietrzyk

It is shown that a sub-luminal electromagnetic plasma wave, propagating in phase with a background sub-luminal gravitational wave in a dispersive medium, can undergo parametric amplification. For this phenomena to occur, the dispersive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Swadesh M. Mahajan , Felipe A. Asenjo

Laser-induced breakdown has shown many potential applications in the various field of science and engineering. As the breakdown occurs in gas or aerosol, a rapid hydrodynamic expansion as shock (blast) wave initiated from the deposition…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 A. P. Singh , U. P. Padhi , R. Joarder

A new cold relativistic theory is proposed to describe the Laser WakeField Accelerator (LWFA) in the presence of pulse evolutions, capable of being utilized to study the group velocity and the plasma dispersion. This new capability is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 J. Yazdanpanah

For short wavelengths, it is well known that the linearized Wigner-Moyal equation predicts wave damping due to wave-particle interaction, where the resonant velocity shifted from the phase velocity by a velocity $v_q = \hbar k/2m$. Here…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Gert Brodin , Robin Ekman , Jens Zamanian

Drift wave is a prominent mode of a magnetized plasma of inhomogeneous density. It plays an important role in the transport of particles, energy and momentum perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field. The frequency of this mode is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Atul Kumar , Amita Das , Predhiman Kaw

Complex plasmas consist of microparticles embedded in a low-temperature plasma and allow investigating various effects by tracing the motion of these microparticles. Dust density waves appear in complex plasmas as self-excited acoustic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 P. Bajaj , S. Khrapak , V. Yaroshenko , M. Schwabe

In 1997 October daily monitoring observations of the Crab pulsar at 327 MHz and 610 MHz with an 85ft telescope in Green Bank, WV showed a jump in the dispersion measure by 0.1 cm$^{-3}$ pc. Pulses were seen simultaneously at both old and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. C. Backer , T. Wong , J. Valanju

We observe pulse delays of up to twenty times the input pulse duration when 200-ps laser pulses pass through a hot Rb 85 vapor cell. The pulse peak travels with a velocity equal to c/20, and the energy transmission is 5%. For pulses with…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Wenhai Ji , Chunbai Wu , M. G. Raymer

In this work, a systematic study, examining the propagation of periodic and solitary wave along the magnetic field in a cold collision-free plasma, is presented. Employing the quasi-neutral approximation and the conservation of momentum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Abbas , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. E. Allen , V. Koukouloyannis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , N. Karachalios

In this work, we derive a dispersion equation that describes the excitation of the oblique (or Alfv\'en) firehose instability in a plasma that contains both electron and ion species modelled by bi-kappa velocity distribution functions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Anelise Ramires Meneses , Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell

Plasmons in low-dimensional systems respresent an important tool for coupling energy into nanostructures and the localization of energy on the scale of only a few nanometers. Contrary to ordinary surface plasmons of metallic bulk materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 H. Pfnür , C. Tegenkamp , L. Vattuone