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The two--dimensional diffusive dynamics of test particles in a random electromagnetic field is studied. The synthetic electromagnetic fluctuations are generated through randomly placed magnetised ``clouds'' oscillating with a frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-01 Silvia Perri , Fabio Lepreti , Vincenzo Carbone , Angelo Vulpiani

In this study, we utilize intense laser pulses and advanced quantum mechanical frameworks to investigate the behavior of high-velocity electrons within magnetized plasma environments. The focus of our research is placed within the context…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 B. S. Sharma , Garima Yadav , N. K. Jaiman , D. N. Gupta

In this study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

Ultrafast optical excitation of metals induces a non-equilibrium energy distribution in the electronic system, with a characteristic step-structure determined by Pauli blocking. On a femtosecond timescale, electron-electron scattering…

Particle acceleration by means of non-linear plasma wave interactions is of great topical interest. Accordingly, in this paper we focus on the electron surfing process. Self-consistent kinetic simulations, using both relativistic Vlasov and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M E Dieckmann , N J Sircombe , M Parviainen , P K Shukla , R O Dendy

Magnetic reconnection plays an important role in the release of magnetic energy and consequent energization of particles in collisionless plasmas. Energy transfer in collisionless magnetic reconnection is inherently a two-step process:…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Andrew J. McCubbin , Gregory G. Howes , Jason M. TenBarge

We are interested in a kinetic equation intended to describe the interaction of particles with their environment. The environment is modeled by a collection of local vibrational degrees of freedom. We establish the existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Stephan De Bièvre , Arthur Vavasseur , Thierry Goudon

We study the collision frequency of electron-neutral-particle in the weakly ionized plasma with the power-law velocity q-distribution and derive the formulation of the average collision frequency. We find that the average collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Futao Sun , Jiulin Du

An equation is derived to calculate the dynamics of relativistic magnetized plasma which decelerates by sweeping up matter from the ISM. Reduction to the non-radiative and radiative regimes is demonstrated. The evolving electron momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Charles D. Dermer , James Chiang

The jets of compact accreting objects are composed of electrons and a mixture of positrons and ions. These outflows impinge on the interstellar or intergalactic medium and both plasmas interact via collisionless processes. Filamentation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 M. E. Dieckmann , G. Sarri , S. Markoff , M. Borghesi , M. Zepf

We study the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in a collisional plasma composed of strongly coupled ions and relativistically degenerate electrons. The equilibrium of ions is maintained by an effective temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla

We consider the effective interaction between electrons due to the exchange of virtual acoustic waves in a low temperature plasma. Electrons are supposed to participate in rapid radial oscillations forming a spherically symmetric plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Maxim Dvornikov

It is observed that the interaction of an intense ultra-short laser pulse with an overdense gas jet results in the pulse collapse and the deposition of a significant part of energy in a small and well localized volume in the rising part of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Sylla , A. Flacco , S. Kahaly , M. Veltcheva , A. Lifschitz , E. d'Humières , V. Tikhonchuk , V. Malka

We explore the physics of electron acceleration in a plasma medium in an effective field theory framework. Employing a multiple Compton scattering mechanism, it is found that the acceleration can be sustained in such a medium so as to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Ravindra Kumar , V. Ravishankar

3D kinetic-scale turbulence is studied numerically in the regime where electrons are strongly magnetized (the ratio of plasma species pressure to magnetic pressure is $\beta_e=0.1$ for electrons and $\beta_i=1$ for ions). Such a regime is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Cristian Vega , Vadim Roytershteyn , Gian Luca Delzanno , Stanislav Boldyrev

The collision of two expanding plasma clouds is investigated, emphasizing instabilities and electron energization in the plasma mixing layer. This work is directly relevant to laboratory experiments with explosively-created laser or z-pinch…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 M. A. Malkov , V. I. Sotnikov

In view of applications to electron-positron pair-plasmas and fullerene pair-ion-plasmas containing charged dust impurities a thorough discussion is given of three-component Plasmas. Space-time responses of multi-component linearized Vlasov…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Atamaniuk , Andrzej J. Turski

We measure the emission of energetic electrons from the interaction between ultrashort laser pulses and a solid density plasma in the relativistic regime. We detect an electron beam that only appears with few-cycle pulses (< 10 fs) and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 N. Zaïm , F. Böhle , M. Bocoum , A. Vernier , S. Haessler , X. Davoine , L. Videau , J. Faure , R. Lopez-Martens

Inspired by one--dimensional light--particle systems, the dynamics of a non-Hamiltonian system with long--range forces is investigated. While the molecular dynamics does not reach an equilibrium state, it may be approximated in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-23 Romain Bachelard , Nicola Piovella , Shamik Gupta

Electrostatic waves in a collision-free unmagnetized plasma of electrons with fixed ions are investigated for electron equilibrium velocity distribution functions that deviate slightly from Maxwellian. Of interest are undamped waves that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Valentini , D. Perrone , F. Califano , F. Pegoraro , P. Veltri , P. J. Morrison , T. M. O'Neil