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Time-variant systems have recently garnered considerable attention due to their unique potentials in manipulating electromagnetic waves. Here, a novel class of topological spacetime crystals is introduced, with a traveling-wave modulation…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

An electron irradiated by a linearly polarized relativistic intensity laser pulse in a cylindrical plasma channel can gain significant energy from the pulse. The laser electric and magnetic fields drive electron oscillations in a plane…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. V. Arefiev , V. N. Khudik , A. P. L. Robinson , G. Shvets , L. Willingale

Nonlinear optical media that are normally dispersive, support a new type of localized (nondiffractive and nondispersive) wavepackets that are X-shaped in space and time and have slower than exponential decay. High-intensity X-waves, unlike…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Conti , S. Trillo , P. Di Trapani , G. Valiulis , O. Jedrkiewicz , J. Trull

The propagation of an electromagnetic pulse in a plasma is studied for pulse durations that are comparable to the plasma period. When the carrier frequency of the incident pulse is much higher than the plasma frequency, the pulse propagates…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-30 Borge Nodland , C. J. McKinstrie

Here we study the nature and characteristics of waves propagating in partially ionised plasmas in the weakly ionised limit, typical for the lower part of the solar atmosphere. The framework in which the properties of waves are discussed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Alharbi , I. Ballai , V. Fedun , G. Verth

The spectrum of electromagnetic waves propagating in a strongly coupled magnetized fully ionized hydrogen plasma is found. The ion motion and damping being neglected, the influence of the Coulomb coupling on the electromagnetic spectrum is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Tkachenko , J. Ortner , V. M. Rylyuk

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

A grand-challenge problem at the forefront of physics is to understand how energy is transported and transformed in plasmas. This fundamental research priority encapsulates the conversion of plasma-flow and electromagnetic energies into…

Electron-beam plasma interaction has long been a topic of great interest. Despite the success of Quasi-Linear (QL) theory and Weak Turbulence (WT) theory, their validities are limited by the requirement of sufficiently dense mode spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Haomin Sun , Jian Chen , Igor D. Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Dmytro Sydorenko

The unique plasma-specific features and physical phenomena in the organization of nanoscale solid-state systems in a broad range of elemental composition, structure, and dimensionality are critically reviewed. These effects lead to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 K. Ostrikov , E. C. Neyts , M. Meyyappan

On the viewpoint of corpuscular model an electromagnetic radiation can be regarded as a system composed of photons with different energies and momenta, which provides us a method being different from the Maxwell wave theory to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Zhigang Bu , Yuee Luo , Hehe Li , Wenbo Chen , Peiyong Ji

When waves damp or amplify on resonant particles in a plasma, the nonresonant particles experience a recoil force that conserves the total momentum between the particles and electromagnetic fields. This force is important to understand, as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 I. E. Ochs , N. J. Fisch

We determine crystal-like materials that can be fabricated by using a standing acoustic wave to arrange small particles in a non-viscous liquid resin, which is cured afterwards to keep the particles in the desired locations. For identical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Fernando Guevara Vasquez , China Mauck

We model relativistically colliding plasma by PIC simulations in one and two spatial dimensions, taking an ion-to-electron mass ratio of 400. Energy dissipation by a wave precursor of mixed polarity and different densities of the colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. E. Dieckmann , P. K. Shukla , L. O. C. Drury

Partially ionized plasmas are found across the Universe in many different astrophysical environments. They constitute an essential ingredient of the solar atmosphere, molecular clouds, planetary ionospheres and protoplanetary disks, among…

Laser-induced plasma formation and subsequent relaxation in solid dielectrics is the precursor to structural modifications that are accompanied by a permanent alteration of material properties. The decay of the electron-hole plasma through…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 P. Jürgens , M. J. J. Vrakking , R. Stoian , A. Mermillod-Blondin

Models for travelling waves in multi-fluid plasmas give essential insight into fully nonlinear wave structures in plasmas, not readily available from either numerical simulations or from weakly nonlinear wave theories. We illustrate these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , R. H. Burrows , X. Ao , G. P. Zank

When a laser field is incident on an overdense plasma it is unable to penetrate inside it. Nevertheless, a part of its energy gets transferred to the electrons through a variety of mechanisms (e.g. vacuum and $\vec{J}\times \vec{B}) heating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Amita Das

The behaviour of a relativistic electron-positron plasma in the pulsar magnetosphere is investigated. The equation of the motion of the magnetospheric plasma is discussed, from which it follows that, if the plasma particle radial velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. A. Kahniashvili , G. Z. Machabeli , I. S. Nanobashvili

We study the two component Fermi plasma. Two components are electrons and ions. Using the Quantum-Hydrodynamic model (QHD), we study the linear properties of electrostatic wave. We derive the linear dispersion relation for the system from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Shraddha Sahana , Spandita Mitra , Swarniv Chandra , Suman Pramanick