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Relativistic plasmas in strong electromagnetic fields exhibit distinct properties compared to classical plasmas. In astrophysical environments, such as neutron stars, white dwarfs, AGNs, and shocks, relativistic plasmas are pervasive and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Pablo J. Bilbao , Thales Silva , Luis O. Silva

We undertake an investigation of particle acceleration in the context of non-linear electrodynamics. We deduce the maximum energy that an electron can gain in a non-linear density wave in a magnetised plasma, and we show that an electron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 David A. Burton , Stephen P. Flood , Haibao Wen

There is considerable interest in the application of quantum information science to advance computations in plasma physics. Many of the topics in fusion plasma physics are classical in nature. In order to implement them on quantum computers…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Abhay K. Ram , George Vahala , Linda Vahala , Min Soe

It has been demonstrated that a quantum well with optically excited, homogeneous oscillations of a two-dimensional (2D) electron plasma behaves as a photonic time crystal when it scatters an obliquely incident, weak probe electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Igor V. Smetanin , Alexander V. Uskov

We find a new set of exact solutions to Maxwell's equations in space--time varying materials, where the refractive index is constant, while the impedance exhibits effective motion, i.e. it is a function of $x-vt$. We find that waves…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Mingjie Li , S. A. R. Horsley

Photonic crystals and metamaterials have emerged as two classes of tailorable materials that enable precise control of light. Plasmonic crystals, which can be thought of as photonic crystals fabricated from plasmonic materials, Bragg…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gregory C. Dyer , Gregory R. Aizin , S. James Allen , Albert D. Grine , Don Bethke , John L. Reno , Eric A. Shaner

We show how the appearance of d-wave pairing in fermionic condensates manifests itself in inelastic light scattering. Specifically, we calculate the Bragg scattering intensity from the dynamic structure factor and the spin susceptibility,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-28 G. R. Boyd , V. Galitski , V. M. Yakovenko

Electron-beam plasma interaction has long been a topic of great interest. Despite the success of Quasi-Linear (QL) theory and Weak Turbulence (WT) theory, their validities are limited by the requirement of sufficiently dense mode spectrum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Haomin Sun , Jian Chen , Igor D. Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Dmytro Sydorenko

Wave propagation in spatially periodic media, such as photonic crystals, can be qualitatively different from any uniform substance. The differences are particularly pronounced when the electromagnetic wavelength is comparable to the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Figotin , I. Vitebskiy

We study the spatio-temporal evolution of the nonlinear electrostatic oscillations in a cold magnetized electron-positron (e-p) plasma using both analytics and simulations. Using a perturbative method we demonstrate that the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Prabal Singh Verma , Tapan Chandra Adhyapak

The possibility of self-trapped propagation of electromagnetic beams in the fully degenerate relativistic electron-positron plasma has been studied applying Fluid-Maxwell model; it is shown that dynamics of such beams can be described by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 V. I. Berezhiani , N. L. Shatashvili

When waves damp or amplify on resonant particles in a plasma, the nonresonant particles experience a recoil force that conserves the total momentum between the particles and electromagnetic fields. This force is important to understand, as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 I. E. Ochs , N. J. Fisch

Slow dynamical changes in magnetic-field strength and invariance of the particles' magnetic moments generate ubiquitous pressure anisotropies in weakly collisional, magnetized astrophysical plasmas. This renders them unstable to fast,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Rincon , A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

Generation of wake fields by a short electromagnetic pulse in a plasma with an inhomogeneous background magnetic field and density profile is considered, and a wave equation is derived. Transmission and reflection coefficients are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Servin , Gert Brodin

Transformation optics offers an unconventional approach to the control of electromagnetic fields. A transformation optical structure is designed by first applying a form-invariant coordinate transform to Maxwell's equations, in which part…

A non-equilibrium plasma was studied using classical electrodynamic field theory. Non-linear interaction terms contribute to a finite lifetime for the dressed electrodynamic field. The lifetime exhibits a $\sim n^{-1} T_{e}^{3/2}…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shirish M. Chitanvis

The spectrum of electromagnetic waves propagating in a strongly coupled magnetized fully ionized hydrogen plasma is found. The ion motion and damping being neglected, the influence of the Coulomb coupling on the electromagnetic spectrum is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Tkachenko , J. Ortner , V. M. Rylyuk

Although it is well recognized that waves propagating in periodic media have forbidden gaps in the continuous spectrum, it is still yet unknown about the minimum number and depth of periodic modulations for clear spectral formation. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Lei Chang

We study induced (stimulated) scattering of linearly polarized, strong electromagnetic waves in pair plasmas, which is crucial for understanding the propagation of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Magnetars are the most promising progenitors of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-20 Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

In this work, we analyze the creation of the discharge asymmetry and the concomitant formation of the DC self-bias voltage in capacitively coupled radio frequency plasmas driven by multi-frequency waveforms, as a function of the electrode…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 R. U. Masheyeva , K. N. Dzhumagulova , M. Myrzaly , J. Schulze , Z. Donko