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The expansion of a dense plasma through a more rarefied ionised medium is a phenomenon of interest in various physics environments ranging from astrophysics to high energy density laser- matter laboratory experiments. Here this situation is…

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This study considers the self-consistent formation and dynamics of electron clouds interacting with a background neutral gas through elastic and inelastic (ionisation) collisions in coaxial geometries similar to gyrotron electron guns.…

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The spontaneous rotation of small dust clusters confined inside a cubical glass box in the sheath of a complex plasma was observed in experiment. Due to strong coupling between the dust particles, these clusters behave like a rigid-body…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Bo Zhang , Jie Kong , Mudi Chen , Ke Qiao , Lorin S. Matthews , Truell W. Hyde

A Circumnuclear Disk (CND) of molecular gas occupies the central few parsecs of the Galactic Center. It is likely subject to turbulent disruptions from violent events in its surrounding environment, but the effect of such perturbations has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Cuc K. Dinh , Jesus M. Salas , Mark R. Morris , Smadar Naoz

Recently, there is much interest in droplet condensation on soft or liquid/liquid-like substrates. Droplets can deform soft and liquid interfaces resulting in a wealth of phenomena not observed on hard, solid surfaces (e.g., increased…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-14 Marcus Lin , Philseok Kim , Sankara Arunachalam , Rifan Hardian , Solomon Adera , Joanna Aizenberg , Xi Yao , Dan Daniel

Context: Cosmic ray acceleration in galaxy clusters is still an ongoing puzzle, with relativistic electrons forming radio relics at merger shocks and emitting synchrotron radiation. In the present work we perform hybrid-kinetic simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-02 S. S. Boula , J. Niemiec , T. Amano , O. Kobzar

We present the results of the experimental study of the influence of dusty structures on plasma. We have studied glow discharges in neon and argon with $\text{Al}_2 \text{O}_3$ polydisperse particles and melamine-formaldehyde monodisperse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Aleksandr Pikalev , Vladimir Kobylin , Aleksandr Semenov

We extend recent numerical results (Dobbs et. al. 2006) on molecular cloud formation in spiral galaxies by including a multi-phase medium. The addition of a hot phase of gas enhances the structure in the cold gas, and significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Clare Dobbs , Ian Bonnell

We report on self-assemblies formed from spherical patchy particles interacting by a long-range attraction through a patch region in a two-dimensional system. We performed Monte Carlo simulations to find stable structures in a system with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-05 Masahide Sato

We investigate the propagation of a shock wave into a warm neutral medium and cold neutral medium by one-dimensional hydrodynamic calculations with detailed treatment of thermal and chemical processes. Our main result shows that thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroshi Koyama , Shu-Ichiro Inutsuka

The formation of chain-folded structures from the melt is observed in molecular dynamics simulations resembling the lamellae of polymer crystals. Crystallization and subsequent melting temperatures are related linearly to the inverse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Hendrik Meyer , Florian Mueller-Plathe

Despite the simplicity of theoretical models of supersonically turbulent, isothermal media, their predictions successfully match the observed gas structure and star formation activity within low-pressure (P/k < 10^5 K cm^-3) molecular…

We report the results of a 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation carried out to study the early-stage evolution of the shock formed when an unmagnetized relativistic jet interacts with an ambient electron-ion plasma. Full-shock structures…

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This paper reports experiments on self$-$excited dust acoustic waves (DAWs) and its propagation characteristics in a magnetized rf discharge plasma. The DAWs are spontaneously excited in dusty plasma after adding more particles in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Mangilal Choudhary , Roman Bergert , Slobodan Mitic , Markus H. Thoma

Light-activated self-propelled colloids are synthesized and their active motion is studied using optical microscopy. We propose a versatile route using different photoactive materials, and demonstrate a multiwavelength activation and…

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Magnetized collisionless shocks drive particle acceleration broadly in space and astrophysics. We perform the first large-scale particle-in-cell simulations with realistic laboratory parameters (density, temperature, and velocity) to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 P. Liu , D. Wu , D. W. Yuan , G. Zhao , Z. M. Sheng , X. T. He , J. Zhang

Mildly relativistic shocks in magnetized electron-ion plasmas are investigated with 2D kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of unprecedentedly high resolution and large scale for conditions that may be found at internal shocks in blazar…

In this work we (i) extend previous 1D studies of electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation in an over-dense plasma-metamaterial composite into two spatial dimensions and (ii) study blocking of EM waves by the composite 2D structures…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 D. Tsiklauri , I. Morrison

Structure and superfluid response of nanoscale size helium-four clusters enclosed in spherical cavities are studied by computer simulations. The curved surface causes the formation of well-defined concentric shells, thus imparting to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Massimo Boninsegni

We perform Brownian dynamics simulations for studying the self-diffusion in two-dimensional (2D) dusty plasma liquids, in terms of both mean-square displacement and velocity autocorrelation function (VAF). Super-diffusion of charged dust…

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