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The kappa distribution of velocities appears routinely in the study of collisionless plasmas present in Earth's magnetosphere, the solar wind among other contexts where particles are unable to reach thermal equilibrium. Originally justified…

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The physical regions (domains or basins) within the molecular structure are open systems that exchange charge between them and consequently house a fractional number of electrons (net charge). The natural framework describing the quantum…

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We propose approximate and accurate formulas for the number of electron configurations in hot plasmas. Such a quantity is an ingredient of algorithms devoted to the generation of configurations or superconfigurations, which is a…

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We present a general expression for the probability distribution function of electric field in a plasma cloud formed by the impact of a laser pulse on a gas or a solid body. We also present the results of numerical calculation of this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 S. Ya. Bronin , E. V. Vikhrov , B. B. Zelener , B. V. Zelener

Accurate modeling of warm and hot dense matter is challenging in part due to the multitude of excited states that must be considered. In thermal density functional theory, these excited states are averaged over to produce a single,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 C. E. Starrett , T. Q. Thelen , C. J. Fontes , D. A. Rehn

The two-dimensional one-component plasma is an ubiquitous model for several vortex systems. For special values of the coupling constant $\beta q^2$ (where $q$ is the particles charge and $\beta$ the inverse temperature), the model also…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Fabio Deelan Cunden , Francesco Mezzadri , Pierpaolo Vivo

Excitation and charge transfer in low-energy O+H collisions is studied; it is a problem of importance for modelling stellar spectra and obtaining accurate oxygen abundances in late-type stars including the Sun. The collisions have been…

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A local turbulence model is developed to study energy cascades in the heliosheath and outer heliosphere (OH) based on self-consistent two-dimensional fluid simulations. The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid OH that couples a…

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The pressure and internal energy of an ultracold plasma in a state of quasi-equilibrium are evaluated using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Coulomb collapse is avoided by modeling electron-ion interactions using an attractive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Sanat Kumar Tiwari , Nathaniel R. Shaffer , Scott D. Baalrud

Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) are useful probes of star formation and galaxy formation at high redshift. We study the physical properties of DLAs and their relationship to Lyman-break galaxies using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kentaro Nagamine

In a dense plasma environment, the energy levels of an ion shift relative to the isolated ion values. This shift is reflected in the optical spectrum of the plasma and can be measured in, for example, emission experiments. In this work, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 T. Q. Thelen , D. A. Rehn , C. J. Fontes , C. E. Starrett

We present a theoretical approach to study the dynamics of spherical, cylindrical and ellipsoidal charge distributions under their self-Coulomb field and a stochastic force due to collisions and random motions of charged particles. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Omid Zandi , Renske M. van der Veen

A theoretical model based on the method of super transition arrays (STA) is used to compute the emissivities, opacities and average ionization states of carbon (C) and polystyrene (CH) plasmas in the warm-dense matter regime in which the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Teck-Ghee Lee , M. Busquet , M. Klapisch , J. W. Bates , A. J. Schmitt , S. X. Hu , J. Giuliani

We evaluate charge diffusion constant of dense and hot hadronic matter based on the molecular dynamical method by using a hadronic collision generator which describes nuclear collisions at energies 10 < E < 100 GeV/A and satisfies detailed…

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Depending on the recent experiments and some new way of explaining electron we have developed here equations for velocities of different mode with the charge density. This includes as well how the charge-density can be distributed in the…

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The exploration of atomic properties of strongly coupled partially degenerate plasmas, also referred to as warm dense matter, is important in astrophysics, since this thermodynamic regime is encountered for instance in Jovian planets'…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jean-Christophe Pain , Gerard Dejonghe

We discuss the physics of sound propagation and charge diffusion in a plasma with non-vanishing charge density. Our analysis culminates the program initiated in arXiv:2108.03244 to construct an open effective field theory of low-lying modes…

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We study the single-particle distributions of three-dimensional hard sphere gas described by the Boltzmann equation. We focus on the steady homogeneous isotropic solutions in thermodynamically open conditions, i.e. in the presence of…

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We consider a stochastic differential equation for a charged particle in a stochastic magnetic field, known as A-Langevin equation. The solution of the equation is found, and the Lagrange velocity correlation function is calculated in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Lesnik , S. Gordienko , M. Neuer , K. -H. Spatschek

A new approach for the calculation of collisional inverse bremsstrahlung absorption of laser light in dense plasmas is presented. Quantum statistical formalism used allows avoiding {\em ad hoc} cutoffs that were necessary in classical…

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