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The existence of global weak solutions to a coupled spin drift-diffusion and Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system is proved. The equations are considered in a two-dimensional magnetic layer structure and are supplemented with Dirichlet-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Nicola Zamponi , Ansgar Jüngel

We show that the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equations around self-similar non-homogeneous states near zero contain the full plasma echo mechanism, yielding Gevrey 3 as a critical stability class. Moreover, here Landau damping may persist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Christian Zillinger

The optomechanical coupling and transverse stability of a co-propagating monochromatic electromagnetic wave and mono-energetic beam of two-level atoms is investigated in the collisionless regime. The coupled dynamics are studied through a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Christopher Limbach

The aim of this paper is to obtain estimates for the density of the law of a specific nonlinear diffusion process at any positive bounded time. This process is issued from kinetic theory and is called Landau process, by analogy with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Hélène Guérin , Sylvie Méléard , Eulalia Nualart

The velocity-space resolution required to accurately simulate kinetic phenomena in the 1D-1V Vlasov--Poisson system is generally not known a priori. In this work, we determine the upper bound on the resolution requirement for linear and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Noah K. Guberman , J. Coughlin , A. S. Joglekar

We investigate the quantum Vlasov equation with a source term describing the spontaneous particle creation in strong fields. The back-reaction problem is treated by solving this kinetic equation together with the Maxwell equation which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 S. A. Smolyansky , V. A. Mizerny , A. V. Prozorkevich , D. V. Vinnik , V. D. Toneev

The real time evolution of field condensates with soft length scales k^{-1}>(eT)^{-1} is solved in hot scalar electrodynamics, with a view towards understanding relaxational phenomena in the QGP and the electroweak plasma. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Daniel Boyanovsky , Hector J. de Vega , Richard Holman , S. Prem Kumar , Robert D. Pisarski

The nonlinear theory of amplitude modulation of electrostatic wave envelopes in a collisionless electron-positron (EP) pair plasma is studied by using a set of Vlasov-Poisson equations in the context of Tsallis' $q$-nonextensive statistics.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 D. Chatterjee , A. P. Misra

The Landau-Coulomb equation is an important model in plasma physics featuring both nonlinear diffusion and reaction terms. In this manuscript we focus on the diffusion operator within the equation by dropping the potentially nefarious…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Rene Cabrera , Maria Gualdani , Nestor Guillen

The hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations is suitable to describe a magnetized plasma at scales of the order of or larger than proton kinetic scales. An exact stationary solution is presented by revisiting previous results with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 F. Malara , O. Pezzi , F. Valentini

This work deals with the numerical solution of the Vlasov equation. This equation gives a kinetic description of the evolution of a plasma, and is coupled with Poisson's equation for the computation of the self-consistent electric field.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-12-13 Nicolas Crouseilles , Thomas Respaud , Eric Sonnendrücker

We consider the Vlasov-HMF (Hamiltonian Mean-Field) model. We consider solutions starting in a small Sobolev neighborhood of a spatially homogeneous state satisfying a linearized stability criterion (Penrose criterion). We prove that these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Erwan Faou , Frédéric Rousset

The effects of linear Landau damping on the nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic solitary waves (DASWs) are studied in a collisionless unmagnetized dusty plasma with two species of positive ions. The extremely massive, micron-seized, cold…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 A. P. Misra , Arnab Barman

The decay of the Langmuir waves in dense plasmas is not accurately predicted by the prevalent Landau damping theory. A dielectric function theory is introduced, predicting much higher damping than the Landau damping theory. This strong…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Son , S. Ku , Sung Joon Moon

After approximate replacing of Maxwellian distribution exponent with the rational polynomial fraction we have obtained precise analytical expression for and calculated the principal value of logarithmically divergent integral in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-09-17 V. N. Soshnikov

A tensor form of phenomenological damping is derived for small magnetization motions. This form reflects basic physical relaxation processes for a general uniformly magnetized particle or film. Scalar Landau-Lifshitz damping is found to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vladimir L. Safonov

As of now, the phenomenological classical Landau-Lifshitz (LL) damping of magnetic order is not conceptually linked to the quantum theory of dissipation of the Lindbladian formalism which is unsatisfactory for the booming research on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-24 Götz S. Uhrig

The relaxation rate of a Maxwellian velocity distribution function that has an initially anisotropic temperature $(T_\parallel \neq T_\perp)$ is an important physical process in space and laboratory plasmas. It is also a canonical example…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Scott D. Baalrud , Jerome Daligault

In this paper, we prove that the kappa distribution is the stationary solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system in an inhomogeneous plasma under the polytropic equation of state and an assumption restricting the local velocity distribution to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Ran Guo

We develop a new method for describing the dynamics of 3-dimensional thermal plasmas. Using a piecewise constant 1-particle distribution, we reduce the Vlasov equation to a generalized Lorentz force equation for a family of vector fields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Burton , A. Noble , H. Wen