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Magnetic holes are structures commonly observed in various space plasma environments throughout the solar system, including the solar wind. These structures are characterized by a localized decrease in magnetic field strength, coincident…

The equatorial current sheet in pulsar magnetospheres is often regarded as an ideal site for particle acceleration via relativistic reconnection. Using 2D spherical particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate particle acceleration in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Benoît Cerutti , Alexander Philippov , Kyle Parfrey , Anatoly Spitkovsky

In this article, we study the physics of charged particle energization inside a strongly turbulent plasma, where current sheets naturally appear in evolving large-scale magnetic topologies, but they are split into two populations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Nikos Sioulas , Heinz Isliker , Loukas Vlahos

A two-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation with the realistic ion-to-electron mass ratio of 1836 is carried out to investigate the electrostatic collisionless shocks in relatively high-speed (~3000 km s^-1) plasma flows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 Tsunehiko N. Kato , Hideaki Takabe

Collisional effects can play an essential role in the dynamics of plasma waves by setting a minimum damping rate and by interfering with wave-particle resonances. Kinetic simulations of the effects of electron-ion pitch angle scattering on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 J. W. Banks , S. Brunner , R. L. Berger , T. M. Tran

In the paper the dynamic localization of charged particle (electron) in a quantum wire under the external non-uniform time-dependent electric field is considered. The electrons are trapped in a deep 'dynamic' quantum wells which are the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Tralle

Shocks waves are a ubiquitous feature of many astrophysical plasma systems, and an important process for energy dissipation and transfer. The physics of these shock waves are frequently treated/modeled as a collisional, fluid MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Colby C. Haggerty , Antoine Bret , Damiano Caprioli

A 2D slab approximation of the interactions of electrons with intense linearly polarized laser radiation and static electric and magnetic fields is widely used for both numerical simulations and simplified semi-analytical models. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Yanzeng Zhang , S. I. Krasheninnikov

We present a dynamical theory which incorporates the electron-electron correlations and the effects of external magnetic fields for an electron escaping from a helium surface. Analytical expressions for the escape rate can be obtained in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ping Ao

Electron drag between two two-dimensional electron gases in magnetic fields has been observed with a polarity opposite that for zero field. This negative drag requires that the electrons have a hole-like dispersion. Density dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. G. Feng , S. Zelakiewicz , H. Noh , T. J. Ragucci , T. J. Gramila , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Plasma processes close to SNR shocks result in the amplification of magnetic fields and in the acceleration of electrons, injecting them into the diffusive acceleration mechanism. The acceleration of electrons and the B field amplification…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 M E Dieckmann , G Murphy , A Meli , L O C Drury

We investigate an electron in the plane interacting with the magnetic field due to an electric current forming a localized rotationally symmetric vortex. We show that independently of the vortex profile an electron with spin antiparallel to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bentosela , P. Exner , V. A. Zagrebnov

We present results from two-dimensional numerical simulations of the interactions between magnetized shocks and radiative clouds. Our primary goal is to characterize the dynamical evolution of the shocked clouds. We perform runs in both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Kyle Gustafson , Stephen D. Murray

We develop a model for stochastic acceleration of electrons in solar flares. As in several previous models, the electrons are accelerated by turbulent fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") via transit-time-damping (TTD) interactions. (In…

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Sheath formation near biased electrodes in magnetic fields parallel to the wall is an understudied topic, especially within the context of Z-pinch fusion experiments. We perform 1X-2V Boltzmann-Poisson simulations of an axial cut at the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 C. R. Skolar , B. Srinivasan

In models of fast magnetic reconnection, flux transfer occurs within a small portion of a current sheet triggering stored magnetic energy to be thermalized by shocks. When the initial current sheet separates magnetic fields which are not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. W. Longcope , S. J. Bradshaw

Magnetic holes (MHs), with a scale much greater than \r{ho}i (proton gyroradius), have been widely reported in various regions of space plasmas. On the other hand, kinetic-size magnetic holes (KSMHs), previously called small size magnetic…

We study single-electron quantum dots on helium surface created by electrodes submerged into the helium. The intradot potential is electrostatically controlled. We find the electron energy spectrum and identify relaxation mechanisms. Strong…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. I. Dykman , P. M. Platzman , P. Seddighrad

We study the Hall effect in diluted plasmas within the two-fluids theory. Composed by two distinct species with opposite charge, such as electrons and ions in fully ionised hydrogen, the plasma is driven by an electric field through a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Nicola Offeddu , Miller Mendoza

We present large-scale dynamical simulations of electronic phase separation in the single-band double-exchange model based on deep-learning neural-network potentials trained from small-size exact diagonalization solutions. We uncover an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Puhan Zhang , Gia-Wei Chern