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In a recent one-dimensional numerical fluid simulation study [Saxena et al., Phys. Plasmas 13,032309 (2006)], it was found that an instability is associated with a special class of one-dimensional nonlinear solutions for modulated light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Vikrant Saxena , Amita Das , Sudip Sengupta , Predhiman Kaw , Abhijit Sen

An asymmetric pair of coupled nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (CNLS) equations has been derived through a multiscale perturbation method applied to a plasma fluid model, in which two wavepackets of distinct carrier wavenumbers and amplitudes are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 N. Lazarides , Giorgos P. Veldes , D. J. Frantzeskakis , Ioannis Kourakis

Suprathermal electrons and inertial drifting electrons, so called electron beam, are crucial to the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatic solitary waves observed in several astrophysical plasmas. In this paper, the propagation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Ashkbiz Danehkar

We study the spatio-temporal evolution of the nonlinear electrostatic oscillations in a cold magnetized electron-positron (e-p) plasma using both analytics and simulations. Using a perturbative method we demonstrate that the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Prabal Singh Verma , Tapan Chandra Adhyapak

The evolution of the filamentation instability produced by two counter-streaming pair plasmas is studied with particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations in both one (1D) and two (2D) spatial dimensions. Radiation friction effects on particles are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 M. D'Angelo , L. Fedeli , A. Sgattoni , F. Pegoraro , A. Macchi

In this article, we use the general theory derived in the companion paper [M. Tacu and D. B\'enisti, Phys. Plasmas (2021)] in order to address several long-standing issues regarding nonlinear electron plasma waves (EPW's). First, we discuss…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 D. Bénisti , D. F. G. Minenna , M. Tacu , A. Debayle , L. Gremillet

Linearly polarized solitary waves, arising from the interaction of an intense laser pulse with a plasma, are investigated. New localized structures, in the form of exact \Changes{numerical} nonlinear solutions of the one-dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 G. Sánchez-Arriaga , E. Siminos , V. Saxena , I. Kourakis

The propagation of plasma waves in a new non-linear, logarithmic electrodynamics model is performed. A cold, uniform, collisionless fluid plasma model is applied. Electrostatic waves in magnetized plasma are shown to correspond to modified…

Plasma current filamentation of an ultrarelativistic electron beam impinging on an overdense plasma is investigated, with emphasis on radiation-induced electron polarization. Particle-in-cell simulations provide the classification and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Resonant scattering of fast particles off low frequency plasma waves is a major process determining transport characteristics of energetic particles in the heliosphere and contributing to their acceleration. Usually, only Alfv\'en waves are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Cedric Schreiner , Patrick Kilian , Felix Spanier

The propagation of stable coherent entities of an electromagnetic field in nonlinear media with parameters varying in space can be described in the framework of iterations of nonlinear integral transformations. It is shown that for a set of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-10 A. Yu. Okulov

In magnetized plasmas gravitational and electromagnetic waves may interact coherently and exchange energy between themselves and with plasma flows. We derive the wave interaction equations for these processes in the case of waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Servin , Gert Brodin

The heliosphere is predominantly a partially ionized plasma that consists of electrons, ions and significant neutral atoms. Nonlinear interactions amongst these species take place through direct collision or charge exchange processes. These…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. E. Kellum , Dastgeer Shaikh

We propose a coupled system for the nonlinear interaction between high-frequency, circularly polarized, intense electromagnetic (EM) waves and low-frequency electron-density perturbations, driven by the EM-wave ponderomotive force, in an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 S. Roy , S. Das Adhikary , A. P. Misra

This paper reviews some of our recent results in nonlinear atom optics. In addition to nonlinear wave-mixing between matter waves, we also discuss the dynamical interplay between optical and matter waves. This new paradigm, which is now…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Goldstein , M. G. Moore , P. Meystre

The interaction of coherent nonlinear structures (such as sub-cycle solitons, electron vortices and wake Langmuir waves) with a strong wake wave in a collisionless plasma can be exploited in order to produce ultra-short electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , F. F. Kamenets , F. Pegoraro

We present for the first time the nonlinear dynamics of quantum electrodynamic (QED) photon splitting in a strongly magnetized electron-positron (pair) plasma. By using a QED corrected Maxwell equation, we derive a set of equations that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin , M. Marklund , B. Eliasson , P. K. Shukla

A nonlinear dispersion of a general stationary wave in collisionless plasma is obtained in a non-differential form from a single-particle oscillation-center Hamiltonian. For electrostatic oscillations in nonmagnetized plasma, considered as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

Dense quantum plasmas are ubiquitous in planetary interiors and in compact astrophysical objects, in semiconductors and micro-mechanical systems, as well as in the next generation intense laser-solid density plasma interaction experiments…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Padma K. Shukla , Bengt Eliasson

In a uniform radio-frequency (RF) plasma between a large electrode pair, the addition of an axial magnetic field induces diverse longitudinal filaments. To reveal its pattern dynamics, we conduct two-dimensional (2D) Particle-In-Cell (PIC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Huidong Huang , Jian Chen , Zhibin Wang