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Transport processes in the fully ionized plasma with kappa-distribution and in strong magnetic field are studied. By analyzing the current density and the heat flux in the kappa-distributed plasma, we derive the corresponding transport…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Guo Ran , Du Jiulin

Relativistic magnetically dominated turbulence is an efficient engine for particle acceleration in a collisionless plasma. Ultrarelativistic particles accelerated by interactions with turbulent fluctuations form non-thermal power-law…

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Determining the physical mechanisms that extract energy from turbulent fluctuations in weakly collisional magnetized plasmas is necessary for a more complete characterization of the behavior of a variety of space and astrophysical plasmas.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Kristopher G. Klein , Gregory G. Howes , Jason M. TenBarge

Entropic forces result from an increase of the entropy of a thermodynamical physical system. It has been proposed that gravity is such a phenomenon and many articles have appeared on the literature concerning this problem. Loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-20 J. Manuel Garcia-Islas

High-energy astrophysical systems frequently contain collisionless relativistic plasmas that are heated by turbulent cascades and cooled by emission of radiation. Understanding the nature of this radiative turbulence is a frontier of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-05 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

This paper presents the misestimation of temperature when observations from a kappa distributed plasma are analyzed as a Maxwellian. One common method to calculate the space plasma parameters is by fitting the observed distributions using…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Georgios Nicolaou , George Livadiotis

The scale invariance of natural images suggests an analogy to the statistical mechanics of physical systems at a critical point. Here we examine the distribution of pixels in small image patches and show how to construct the corresponding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-30 Greg J Stephens , Thierry Mora , Gasper Tkacik , William Bialek

Using molecular dynamics simulations and integral equations we investigate the structure, the thermodynamics and the dynamics of a system of particles interacting through a continuous core- softened ramp-like interparticle potential. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-28 Alan Barros de Oliveira , Paulo A. Netz , Marcia C. Barbosa

Transport properties, such as viscosity and thermal conduction, of the hot intergalactic plasma in clusters of galaxies, are largely unknown. While for laboratory plasmas these characteristics are derived from the gas density and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-18 I. Zhuravleva , E. Churazov , A. A. Schekochihin , S. W. Allen , A. Vikhlinin , N. Werner

Many problems in astrophysics involve relativistic outflows. The plasma dynamics in these scenarios is critical to determine the conditions for the self-consistent evolution of the fields and particle acceleration. Advances in computer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 L. O. Silva

In this work, we analyse the thermodynamical behavior of massive and massless particles within Loop Quantum Gravity formalism. We investigate a modified dispersion relation which suffices to derive all our results of interest in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 A. A. Araújo Filho

Results of numerical simulation constructed before strict mathematical model of an establishment of thermodynamic equilibrium in originally nonequilibrium cosmological ultrarelativistic plasma for the Universe with any acceleration in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-09 Yu. G. Ignatyev

We demonstrate that a nonthermal distribution of particles described by a kappa distribution can be accurately approximated by a weighted sum of Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions. We apply this method to modeling collision processes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

A non-relativistic Fokker-Planck equation for the electron distribution function is formulated incorporating the effects of stochastic acceleration by whistler-mode waves and Coulomb collisions. The stationary solution $f$ to the equation,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Chun-yu Ma , Danny Summers

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

Entropic dynamics is a framework in which quantum theory is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. Entropic dynamics on flat spaces has been extensively studied. The objective of this paper is to extend the entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Shahid Nawaz , Mohammad Abedi , Ariel Caticha

For the system with inhomogeneous distribution of macroscopic parameters we obtain thermodynamic relation which depends on the spatial point (coordinate). In our approach, to obtain such a relation we use the basic ideas of the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 A. P. Rebesh , B. I. Lev , A. G. Zagorodny

We analyze the statistical properties of radiative transitions for a molecular system possessing discrete, equally spaced, energy levels, interacting with thermal radiation at constant temperature. A radiative fluctuation-dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Chiara Pezzotti , Massimiliano Giona

Possible entropy constraints on particle acceleration spectra are discussed. Solar flare models invoke a variety of initial distributions of the primary energy release over the particles of the flare plasma -- ie., the partition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 John C Brown , Gregory Beekman , Norman Gray , Alexander L MacKinnon

The nuclear incompressibility $\kappa$ is investigated in asymmetric systems in a mean field model. The calculations are done at zero and finite temperatures and include surface, Coulomb and symmetry energy terms for several equations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Z. Mekjian , S. J. Lee , L. Zamick