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A particle driven by active self-propulsion can be subject to inhomogeneous potential fields, steering its orientation and leading to confinement and eventual trapping. Analytical treatment of capture and/or release dynamics for general…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-19 Guangle Du , Fangfu Ye , Rudolf Podgornik

In the paper [I], the first part of our work, we established the model of interaction of five elements: first, a unit time-like vector field, associated with the velocity of dynamic aether, second, the pseudoscalar field describing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Alexander B. Balakin , Kamil R. Valiullin

The defining feature of active particles is that they constantly propel themselves by locally converting chemical energy into directed motion. This active self-propulsion prevents them from equilibrating with their thermal environment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-26 Lennart Dabelow , Stefano Bo , Ralf Eichhorn

Efficient relativistic turbulent acceleration of particles is indicated by recent astrophysical observations. The Type II mechanism with acceleration due to the temporal variations of magnetic field strengths remains underexplored. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Saikat Das , Siyao Xu , Joonas Nättilä

The properties of collisionless shocks are frequently assessed in the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model. Yet, in a collisionless plasma, an ambient magnetic field can sustain a stable anisotropy in the upstream or the downstream, resulting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Antoine Bret

The expansion of a thermal pressure-driven radial blast shell into a dilute ambient plasma is examined with two-dimensional PIC simulations. The purpose is to determine if laminar shocks form in a collisionless plasma that resemble their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 M E Dieckmann , Q Moreno , D Doria , L Romagnani , G Sarri , D Folini , R Walder , A Bret , E d'Humieres , M Borghesi

The present work reports a novel investigation into the collisional dynamics of particles in the vicinity of the outlet of a 2D silo using molecular dynamics simulations. Most studies on this granular system focus in the bulk of the medium.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-20 Roberto Arévalo

An analysis of plasma density distributions at arbitrary ion-atom collisionality for one-dimensional axially symmetrical cylindrical and annular plasmas is presented. Perturbations of plasma densities caused by a cylindrical probe are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Valery Godyak , Natalia Sternberg

Recent work has shown that two seemingly different physical mechanisms, namely fracton behavior and confinement, can give rise to non-ergodicity in one-dimensional quantum many-body systems. In this work, we demonstrate an intrinsic link…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 Shriya Pai , Michael Pretko

Intrinsic flow in plasma physics is a long-standing puzzle, since it is difficult to understand its origin without contradiction to momentum conservation in conventional wisdom. It is proved that the electromagnetic turbulent acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Shuitao Peng , Lu Wang

A theoretical analysis for astrophysics-oriented laser-matter interaction experiments in the presence of a strong ambient magnetic field is presented. It is shown that the plasma collision in the ambient magnetic field implies significant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Philipp Korneev , Emmanuel d'Humières , Vladimir Tikhonchuk

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

We consider a system of $N$ particles living on the noncommutative plane in the presence of a confining potential and study its thermodynamics properties. Indeed, after calculating the partition function, we determine the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Rachid Houça , Ahmed Jellal

The non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional gas of inelastic hard spheres is presented. The dynamics of the particles includes an effective mechanism to transfer the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar , V. Buzón

Inspired by a question of Colin de Verdi\`{e}re and Truc we study the dynamics of a classical charged particle moving in a bounded planar domain $\Omega$ under the influence of a magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ which blows up at the boundary of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Gabriel Martins

The principle behind magnetic fusion is to confine high temperature plasma inside a device in such a way that the nuclei of deuterium and tritium joining together can release energy. The high temperatures generated needs the plasma to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Giacomo Albi , Giacomo Dimarco , Federica Ferrarese , Lorenzo Pareschi

We investigate the dynamics of plasma-based acceleration processes with collisionless particle dynamics and non negligible thermal effects. We aim at assessing the applicability of fluid-like models, obtained by suitable closure assumptions…

Attention is drawn to a fundamental difference between the physical mechanisms responsible for the magnetic field freezing-in effect in spatially isotropic (collisional) and strongly anisotropic (collisionless) plasmas. (The first case is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. V. Dumin

I develop simple thermodynamic relations for a collection of noninteracting classical particles confined in a harmonic trap. The volume of such a trap is not a good thermodynamic variable, so conventional expressions of the first law of…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Ligare

Spherical plasma lens models are known to suffer from a severe over-pressure problem, with some observations requiring lenses with central pressures up to millions of times in excess of the ambient ISM. There are two ways that lens models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 Adam Rogers , Abdul Mohamed , Bailey Preston , Jason D. Fiege , Xinzhong Er