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A hypothesis on the physical mechanism generating the heartbeat instability in complex (dusty) plasmas is presented. It is suggested that the instability occurs due to the periodically repeated critical transformation on the boundary…

The microbunching instability usually exists in the LINAC of a free electron laser (FEL) facility. In many cases, the longitudinal space charge (LSC) is a dominant factor that generates the instability. For the highly bright electron beams,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Dazhang Huang , King Yuen Ng , Qiang Gu

Two-plasmon decay instability emerges as the parametric decay of laser beams into two plasma waves which is expected for hohlraum in inertial confinement fusion. The behavior of this instability in magnetized plasma is investigated in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 S. S. Ghaffari-Oskooei , A. A. Molavi Choobini

Interaction of an intense electron beam with a finite-length, inhomogeneous plasma is investigated numerically. The plasma density profile is maximal in the middle and decays towards the plasma edges. Two regimes of the two-stream…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 D. Sydorenko , I. D. Kaganovich , P. L. G. Ventzek , L. Chen

The paper presents a review of dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instabilities. One of the dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instability was proposed in the papers [Phys. Plasmas 19, 024503(2012) and references therein],…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Kawata , T. Karino , Y. J. Gu

Dedicated experiments on melting of 2D plasma crystals were carried out. The melting was always accompanied by spontaneous growth of the particle kinetic energy, suggesting a universal plasma-driven mechanism underlying the process. By…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Couëdel , V. Nosenko , A. V. Ivlev , S. K. Zhdanov , H. M. Thomas , G. E. Morfill

We investigate GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure membranes with a metasurface made up of a grating of two-dimensional electron system (2DES) strips. Experiments have revealed a strong plasma resonance in the transmission of the metasurface. We…

The plasma oscillations in high-mobility field-effect transistors (HEMTs) have emerged as a key physical mechanism for manipulating electromagnetic radiation in the sub-terahertz (sub-THz) and THz frequency ranges. These collective electron…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Michael Shur , Gregory Aizin

The occurrence of the modulational instability (MI) in transverse dust lattice waves propagating in a one-dimensional dusty plasma crystal is investigated. The amplitude modulation mechanism, which is related to the intrinsic nonlinearity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

A two-fluid flowing plasma model is applied to describe the plasma rotation and resulted instability evolution in magnetically enhanced vacuum arc thruster (MEVAT). Typical experimental parameters are employed, including plasma density,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Lei Chang , Tianping Zhang , Xinyue Hu , Xianming Wu , Xinfeng Sun

It is shown that the transport in low temperature, collisional, bounded plasma is enhanced by instabilities at high magnetic field. While the magnetic field confines the electrons in a stable plasma, the instability completely destroys the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 R. Lucken , A. Bourdon , M. Lieberman , P. Chabert

Partially magnetized plasmas in ExB configurations - where the electric and magnetic fields are mutually perpendicular - exhibit a cross-field transport behavior, which is widely believed to be dominantly governed by complex…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll , Benedict Rose

The low-frequency instability of a magnetized plasma column and the anomalous radial plasma convection are shown to be linked with the existence of a radial cross-field current along a plasma channel rotating around the central magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Jaeger , Th. Pierre

In two previous publications$^{1,2}$, we have demonstrated that stationary rotation of magnetized plasma about a compact central object permits an enormous number of different MHD instabilities, with the well-known magneto-rotational…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Goedbloed , Rony Keppens

The shape instability of magnetic domain walls under current is investigated in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. Domain wall motion is driven by the spin transfer torque mechanism. A current density gradient…

For finite systems boundaries can introduce remarkable novel features. A well known example is the Casimir effect [1, 2] that is observed in quantum electrodynamic systems. In classical systems too novel effects associated with finite…

Plasma turbulence is the dominant transport mechanism for heat and particles in magnetized plasmas in linear devices and tokamaks, so the study of turbulence is important in limiting and controlling this transport. Linear devices provide an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Jarrod Leddy , Ben Dudson

Resonant frequencies of the two-dimensional plasma in FETs increase with the reduction of the channel dimensions and can reach the THz range for sub-micron gate lengths. Nonlinear properties of the electron plasma in the transistor channel…

We present a comprehensive theory of the Dyakonov-Shur (DS) plasma instability in current-biased graphene transistors. Using the hydrodynamic approach, we derive equations describing the DS instability in the two-dimensional electron fluid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Justin Crabb , Xavier Cantos-Roman , Josep M. Jornet , Gregory R. Aizin

We analytically investigate the plasmons propagating in a homogeneous two-dimensional (2D) electron system, along the metal grating in the form of a periodic array of strip-shaped electrodes (gates) in the vicinity of the 2D system. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 A. V. Nikonov , A. A. Zabolotnykh , V. A. Volkov