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The electron runaway phenomenon in plasmas depends sensitively on the momentum-space dynamics. However, efficient simulation of the global evolution of systems involving runaway electrons typically requires a reduced fluid description. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 P. Svensson , O. Embreus , S. L. Newton , K. Särkimäki , O. Vallhagen , T. Fülöp

The mobility of an overdamped particle, in a periodic potential tilted by a constant external field and moving in a medium with periodic friction coefficient is examined. When the potential and the friction coefficient have the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debasis Dan , Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

A new method, dual-space cluster expansion, is proposed to study classical phases transitions in the continuum. It relies on replacing the particle positions as integration variables by the momenta of the relative displacements of particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Andras Suto

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

When particles are magnetized, a diffusion process is influenced by the ambient magnetic field. While the entropy increases, the constancy of the magnetic moment puts a constraint. Here, we compare the E-cross-B diffusion caused by random…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-25 Naoki Sato , Zensho Yoshida

Turbulent flows in the solar wind, large scale current sheets, multiple current sheets, and shock waves lead to the formation of environments in which a dense network of current sheets is established and sustains "turbulent reconnection".…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Loukas Vlahos , Theophilos Pisokas , Heinz Isliker , Vassilios Tsiolis , Anastasios Anastasiadis

Anisotropic distributions of charged particles including two-stream distributions give rise to generation of either stochastic electric fields (in the form of Langmuir waves, Buneman instability) or random quasi-static magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory D. Fleishman , Igor N. Toptygin

Charged particles in a magnetosphere are spontaneously attracted to a planet while increasing their kinetic energy via inward diffusion process. A constraint on particles' micro-scale adiabatic invariants restricts the class of motions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Y. Ushida , Y. Kawazura , N. Sato , Z. Yoshida

Alfv\'enic turbulence is an effective mechanism for particle acceleration in strongly magnetized, relativistic plasma. In this study, we investigate a scenario where turbulent plasma is influenced by a strong guide magnetic field, resulting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn

We report an experimental study of a dilute "gas" of magnetic particles subjected to a vertical alternating magnetic field in a 3D container. Due to the torque exerted by the field on the magnetic moment of each particle, a spatially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-10 Eric Falcon , Jean-Claude Bacri , Claude Laroche

There is no single mechanism by which fast particles are accelerated in astrophysical environments, and it is now recognized that the data require a rich variety of different mechanisms operating under different conditions. The mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-15 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Grzegorz Kowal , Alex Lazarian , Reinaldo Santos-Lima

We consider systems of particles hopping stochastically on $d$-dimensional lattices with space-dependent probabilities. We map the master equation onto an evolution equation in a Fock space where the dynamics are given by a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunter Schuetz , Sven Sandow

Motivated by the realization of magnetic monopole of Berry curvature by the energy crossing point, we theoretically study the effect of magnetic monopole under a uniform electric field in the semiclassical dynamics, which is relevant to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Kou Misaki , Naoto Nagaosa

Starting from a particle model describing self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment, we derive a macroscopic model for the particle density and mean direction of motion. We first propose a mean-field kinetic model of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Pierre Degond , Sara Merino-Aceituno

The generic acceleration model for ultra high energy cosmic rays, which has been introduced in {\tt 1006.5708 [astro-ph.HE]}, suggests various types of electromagnetic interactions between cosmic charged particles and the different types of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-18 A. Tawfik , A. Saleh

Stochastic motion of charged particles in the magnetic field was first studied almost half a century ago in the classical works by Taylor and Kursunoglu in connection with the diffusion of electrons and ions in plasma. In their works the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-12 V. Lisy , J. Tothova

Energetic particle transport in a finite amplitude magnetosonic and Alfvenic turbulence is considered using Monte Carlo particle simulations, which involve an integration of particle equation of motion. We show that in a low-Betha plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Michalek , M. Ostrowski , R. Schlickeiser

The overdamped dynamics of a charged particle driven by an uniform electric field through a random sequence of scatterers in one dimension is investigated. Analytic expressions of the mean velocity and of the velocity power spectrum are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kunz , R. Livi , A. Suto

The motion of energetic particles in magnetic turbulence across a mean magnetic field is explored analytically. The approach presented here allows for a full time-dependent description of the transport, including compound sub-diffusion. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Andreas Shalchi

This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent astrophysical flows. The subject is also complemented by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 A. Marcowith , G. Ferrand , M. Grech , Z. Meliani , I. Plotnikov , R. Walder