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A unified, fast, and effective approach is developed for numerical calculation of the well-known plasma dispersion function with extensions from Maxwellian distribution to almost arbitrary distribution functions, such as the $\delta$, flat…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Hua-sheng Xie

In this paper we have criticized the so-called Landau damping theory. We have analyzed solutions of the standard dispersion equations for longitudinal (electric) and transversal (electromagnetic and electron) waves in half-infinite slab of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 V. N. Soshnikov

The theory of plasma waves and Landau damping in Maxwellian plasmas, Landau's ``rule of pass around poles'' include doubtful statements, particularly related to an artificial ``constructing'' of the dispersion equation, what should allow…

plasm-ph · Physics 2016-09-08 V. N. Soshnikov

Effects of non-thermal high-energy electrons on Langmuir wave-particle interaction are investigated by an initial value approach. A Vlasov-Poisson simulation is employed which is based on the splitting scheme by Cheng and Knorr [Cheng, C.Z.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Yue-Hung Chen , Yasutaro Nishimura , Chio-Zong Cheng

To calculate linear oscillations and waves in dynamics of gas and plasma one uses as a rule the old classical method of dispersion equation for complex frequencies $\omega$ and wave numbers $k$: $\epsilon(\omega,k)=0$. This method appears…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

A linearized Vlasov-Poisson system of equations is transformed into a Schr\"{o}dinger equation, which is used to demonstrate that the fluctuation theorem holds for the relative stochastic entropy, defined in terms of the probability density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Hideo Sugama

We present a study of the standard plasma physics test, Landau damping, using the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm. The Landau damping phenomenon consists of the damping of small oscillations in plasmas without collisions. In the PIC…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay , Mark F. Adams

Vlasov kinetic theory is extended by adopting an extra one particle distribution function as an additional state variable characterizing the micro-turbulence internal structure. The extended Vlasov equation keeps the reversibility, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-08 Miroslav Grmela , Michal Pavelka

The mechanism of Landau damping is observed in various systems from plasma oscillations to accelerators. Despite its widespread use, some confusion has been created, partly because of the different mechanisms producing the damping but also…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 W. Herr

Going beyond the linearized study has been a longstanding problem in the theory of Landau damping. In this paper we establish exponential Landau damping in analytic regularity. The damping phenomenon is reinterpreted in terms of transfer of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Clément Mouhot , Cédric Villani

The theory of gauge transformations in linearized gravitation is investigated. After a brief discussion of the fundamentals of the kinetic theory in curved spacetime, the Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations in terms of gauge…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Lucas Bourscheidt , Fernando Haas

In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau Equations on $\mathbb{T}^3\times \mathbb{R}^3$ with small collision frequency $\nu\ll 1$. We prove that for $\nu$-independent perturbations of the global Maxwellians in Gevrey-$2_-$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Jacob Bedrossian , Weiren Zhao , Ruizhao Zi

Landau damping/growing at boundary condition of excitation of a harmonic wave in collisionless ion-electron-neutrals plasma contradicts to the law of energy conservation of a wave damping/growing in space. There is also no criterion of a…

General Physics · Physics 2015-09-11 V. N. Soshnikov

We analyse the effect of expansion in Newtonian cosmology on the asymptotic behaviour of charged self-interacting plasmas close to Poisson equilibria. To this end, we study the Vlasov-Poisson system on the phase space of a $3$-torus which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-17 David Fajman , Liam Urban

We focus our attention on some relevant aspects of the beam-plasma instability in order to refine some features of the linear and non-linear dynamics. After a re-analysis of the Poisson equation and of the assumption dealing with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Nakia Carlevaro , Matteo Del Prete , Giovanni Montani , Fabio Squillaci

Fully kinetic simulations of the Vlasov equation require a careful numerical treatment of phase space advections to ensure accuracy and stability in six dimensions. To test the accuracy of full Vlasov codes, we have developed a surprisingly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 M. Pelkner , K. Hallatschek , M. Raeth

We examine the phenomenon of Landau Damping in relativistic plasmas via a study of the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system (both on the torus and on $\mathbb{R}^3$) linearized around a sufficiently nice, spatially uniform kinetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Brent Young

Intermolecular forces are modeled by means of a modified Lennard-Jones potential, introducing a distance of minimum approach, and the effect of intermolecular interactions is accounted for with a self consistent field of the Vlasov type. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-14 Vincenzo Molinari , Domiziano Mostacci

This paper investigates nonlinear Landau damping in the 3D Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. We study the asymptotic stability of the Poisson equilibrium $\mu(v)=\frac{1}{\pi^2(1+|v|^2)^2}$ under small perturbations. Building on the foundational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Quoc-Hung Nguyen , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

Collisionless damping of electrical waves in plasma is investigated in the frame of the classical formulation of the problem. The new principle of regularization of the singular integral is used. The exact solution of the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-01 Boris V. Alexeev
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