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The recently developed concept of "entropic defect" is important for understanding the foundations of thermodynamics in space plasma physics, and more generally, for systems with physical correlations among their particles. Using this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 George Livadiotis , David J. McComas

For collisionless (or collision-poor) plasma populations which are well described by the $\kappa$-distribution functions (also known as the Kappa or Lorentzian power-laws) a macroscopic interpretation has remained largely questionable,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Klaus Scherer , Marian Lazar , Edin Husidic , Horst Fichtner

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Sergio Davis , Biswajit Bora , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto

Kappa-distributed velocities in plasmas are common in a wide variety of settings, from low-density to high-density plasmas. To date, they have been found mainly in space plasmas, but are recently being considered also in the modelling of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sergio Davis , Gonzalo Avaria , Biswajit Bora , Jalaj Jain , José Moreno , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto

In the literature different so-called $\kappa$-distribution functions are discussed to fit and model the velocity (or energy) distributions of solar wind species, pickup ions or magnetospheric particles. Here we introduce a generalized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-09 Klaus Scherer , Edin Husidic , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner

Observations in space plasmas reveal particle velocity distributions out of thermal equilibrium, with anisotropies (e.g., parallel drifts or/and different temperatures, $T_\parallel$ - parallel and $T_\perp$ - perpendicular, with respect to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Klaus Scherer , Edin Husidic , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner

The special relativistic generalization of isotropic regularized kappa distributions is derived and compared to that of the original Olbertian (or standard) kappa distributions. It is demonstrated that for the latter the kappa parameter is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 Linh Han Than , Klaus Scherer , Horst Fichtner

From the perspective of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, modeling the velocity distribution of particles in non-equilibrium, steady-state plasmas presents a significant challenge. Under this context, a family of kappa distributions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Abiam Tamburrini , Sergio Davis , Pablo S. Moya

This paper studies sufficient conditions for deriving the kappa distribution in polytropic plasmas by an improved method compared with the previous work [R. Guo, Phys. Plasmas \textbf{27}, 122104 (2020)]. We find that the polytropic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ran Guo

We study the effect of the velocity distributions of the plasma particles on the equilibrium charge of dust particles which suffer collisional charging, considering different forms of both isotropic and anisotropic Kappa distributions for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Luiz Fernando Ziebell , Rudi Gaelzer

Most astrophysical plasmas are observed to have velocity distribution functions exhibiting non-Maxwellian suprathermal tails. The high energy particle populations are accurately represented by the family of kappa-distributions where the use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manfred P. Leubner

Kappa distributions are ubiquitous in space and astrophysical poorly collisional plasmas, such as the solar wind, suggesting that microscopic and macroscopic properties of these non-equilibrium plasmas are highly conditioned by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Pablo S. Moya , Marian Lazar , Stefaan Poedts

The mutual derivation between arbitrary distribution forms of momenta and momentum components of particles produced in an isotropic emission source are systematically studied in terms of probability theory and mathematical statistics. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-23 Pei-Pin Yang , Qi Wang , Fu-Hu Liu

For various plasma applications the so-called (non-relativistic) $\kappa$-distribution is widely used to reproduce and interpret the suprathermal particle populations exhibiting a power-law distribution in velocity or energy. Despite its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 K. Scherer , H. Fichtner , M. Lazar

This is the second paper in a series on light scattering from optically anisotropic scatterers embedded in an isotropic medium. The apparently complex T-matrix theory involving mixing of angular momentum components turns out to be an…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Kiselev , V. Yu. Reshetnyak , T. J. Sluckin

In parallel with advances in microscale imaging techniques, the fields of biology and materials science have focused on precisely extracting particle properties based on their diffusion behavior. Although the majority of real-world…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Kaito Takanami , Daisuke Taniguchi , Sawako Enoki , Masafumi Kuroda , Yasushi Okada , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

This study proposes a theoretical model for studying the spin characteristics and angular correlations of fission fragments of heavy nuclei. The mechanisms of spin formation, including the influence of transverse vibrations, are considered…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 D. E. Lyubashevsky , A. A. Pisklyukov , S. V. Klyuchnikov , P. V. Kostryukov

It is very important to understand stochastic diffusion of energetic charged particles in non-uniform background magnetic field in plasmas of astrophysics and fusion devices. Using different methods considering along-field adiabatic…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 J. F. Wang , G. Qin

One-dimensional reaction-diffusion models A+A -> 0, A+A -> A, and $A+B -> 0, where in the latter case like particles coagulate on encounters and move as clusters, are solved exactly with anisotropic hopping rates and assuming synchronous…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-26 Vladimir Privman , Antonio M. R. Cadilhe , M. Lawrence Glasser

Behavior of the mixture of particles and dimers moving with different jump rates at reconstructed surfaces is described. Collective diffusion coefficient is calculated by the variational approach. Anisotropy of the collective particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-12 Marcin Mińkowski , Magdalena A. Załuska Kotur
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