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A dispersion relation for a commonly used hybrid model of plasma physics is developed, which combines fully kinetic ions and a massless-electron fluid description. Although this model and variations of it have been used to describe plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Daniel Told , Tessa Cookmeyer , Patrick Astfalk , Frank Jenko

Full-f global gyrokinetic simulations of the plasma boundary have until now required heroic computational efforts and case-by-case expert intervention, precluding systematic parameter scans. Here we demonstrate a paradigm shift: hundreds of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 A. C. D. Hoffmann , M. Francisquez , T. N. Bernard , G. W. Hammett , A. Hakim

In this paper, we describe a new class of fast solvers for separable elliptic partial differential equations in cylindrical coordinates $(r,\theta,z)$ with free-space radiation conditions. By combining integral equation methods in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Andras Pataki , Leslie Greengard

Starting from the matrix elements of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in momentum space we present a method to derive an operator representation with a minimal set of operators that is required to provide an optimal description of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-04 D. Weber , H. Feldmeier , H. Hergert , T. Neff

A systematic expansion of the induced inclusive gluon radiation associated with jet production in a dense QCD plasma is derived using a reaction operator formalism. Analytic expressions for the transverse momentum and light-cone momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 M. Gyulassy , P. Levai , I. Vitev

One of the main applications in plasma physics concerns the energy production through thermo-nuclear fusion. The controlled fusion is achieved by magnetic confinement i.e., the plasma is confined into a toroidal domain (tokamak) under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Mihai Bostan , Irene M. Gamba

Using particle-in-cell simulations that label ions and electrons according to their initial inflow region, we find that during 2D collisionless magnetic reconnection, the bulk flow of the plasma from each inflow side crosses paths with…

Plasma supports collective modes and particle-wave interactions that leads to complex behavior in inertial fusion energy applications. While plasma can sometimes be modeled as a charged fluid, a kinetic description is useful towards the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Archis S. Joglekar , Alexander G. R. Thomas

Predicting the dynamics of a thermonuclear plasma during a magnetic confinement experiment is fundamental in order to make nuclear fusion a reliable source of energy. The development of a set of equations describing the plasma evolution on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Matteo Valerio Falessi

The paper presents a 1D2V electrostatic PIC model with a drift-kinetic description of all particle types aiming at simulating classical longitudinal plasma transport in axially symmetric open traps. The model generalizes the semi-implicit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 V. V. Glinskiy , I. V. Timofeev , V. V. Prikhodko

We derive a gyrokinetic formalism which is very generally valid: the ordering allows both large inhomogeneities in plasma flow and magnetic field at long wavelength, like typical drift-kinetic theories, as well as fluctuations at the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ben F McMillan , Amil Sharma

We present an operator definition of the collisional energy and momentum loss suffered by an energetic charged particle in the presence of a medium. Our approach uses the energy-momentum tensor of the medium to evaluate the energy and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-14 R. B. Neufeld , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

We discuss the efficient computation of the auxiliary integrals that arise when resolutions of two-electron operators (specifically, the Coulomb and long-range Ewald operators) are employed in quantum chemical calculations. We derive a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Taweetham Limpanuparb , Joshua W. Hollett , Peter M. W. Gill

We consider a partially ionized gas at thermal equilibrium, in the Saha regime. The system is described in terms of a quantum plasma of nuclei and electrons. In this framework, the Coulomb interaction is the source of a large variety of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Alastuey , V. Ballenegger , F. Cornu , Ph. A. Martin

A unified numerically solvable framework for dispersion relations with arbitrary number of species drifting at arbitrary directions and with Krook collision is derived for linear uniform/homogenous kinetic plasma, which largely extended the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Huasheng Xie

Shock waves in plasmas can be characterized by the mechanisms behind their formation. When binary collisions are frequent, dissipation is collision-driven and the shock width is a few mean free paths. In contrast, collisionless shocks rely…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Yossef Nissim Kindi , Asaf Pe'er , Antoine Bret , Luís O. Silva , Kevin M. Schoeffler

The concept of diffusion in collisionless space plasmas like those near the magnetopause and in the geomagnetic tail is reexamined from a fundamental statistical point of view making use of the division of particle orbits into waiting…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

A gyrokinetic theory is developed under a set of orderings applicable to the edge region of tokamaks and other magnetic confinement devices, as well as to internal transport barriers. The result is a practical set equations that is valid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Andris M. Dimits

Based on an ensemble Monte Carlo analysis, we show that Coulomb interactions play a dominant role in bound-to-continuum terahertz quantum cascade lasers and thus require careful modeling. Coulomb interactions enter our simulation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 Christian Jirauschek , Alpár Mátyás , Paolo Lugli

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simplified model as the modeling of the magnetized plasmas. The starting point is an assumption that the distribution of the ensemble of charged particles in the same species is homogeneous over…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Shuangxi Zhang