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The motion of a collisionless plasma is described by the Vlasov-Poisson system, or in the presence of large velocities, the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system. Both systems are considered in one space and one momentum dimension, with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Stephen Pankavich , Robert Glassey , Jack Schaeffer

We present the applications of methods from nonlinear local harmonic analysis for calculations in nonlinear collective dynamics described by different forms of Vlasov-Maxwell-Poisson equations. Our approach is based on methods provided the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

We present a first-principles derivation of the variational equations describing the dynamics of the interaction of a spatial soliton and a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) propagating along a metal/dielectric interface. The variational…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Ferrando , C. Milián , D. V. Skryabin

A non--equilibrium occupation distribution relaxes towards the Fermi--Dirac distribution due to electron--electron scattering even in finite Fermi systems. The dynamic evolution of this thermalization process assumed to result from an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Imre Varga , Peter Thomas , Torsten Meier , Stephan W. Koch

Self-focusing instability is a well-known phenomenon of nonlinear optics, which is of great importance in the field of laser-plasma interactions. Self-focusing instability leads to beam focusing and, consequently, breakup into multiple…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 K. V. Lezhnin , Kenan Qu , N. J. Fisch , S. V. Bulanov

We show that circularly polarized lasers create plasmas with long-lasting ring-shaped weakly relativistic momentum distributions which, in the presence of an ambient magnetic field, are prone to the electron cyclotron maser instability.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Thales Silva , Pablo J. Bilbao , Luis O. Silva

The behavior of an electron spin interacting with a linearly polarized laser field is analyzed. In contrast to previous considerations of the problem, the initial state of the electron represents a localized wave packet, and a spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 I. A. Aleksandrov , D. A. Tumakov , A. Kudlis , V. M. Shabaev , N. N. Rosanov

A new experimental platform based on laser-plasma interaction is proposed to explore the fundamental processes of wave coupling at the origin of interplanetary radio emissions. It is applied to the study of electromagnetic (EM) emission at…

Propagation, transmission and reflection properties of linearly polarized plane waves and arbitrarily short electromagnetic pulses in one-dimensional dispersionless dielectric media possessing an arbitrary space-time dependence of the…

We construct a unique global-in-time solution to the two species Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in convex domains with the diffuse boundary condition, which can be viewed as one of the ideal scattering boundary model. The construction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Yunbai Cao

In this paper, we discuss a general approach to find periodic solutions bifurcating from equilibrium points of classical Vlasov systems. The main access to the problem is chosen through the Hamiltonian representation of any Vlasov system,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-29 R. A. Neiss

We construct global-in-time classical solutions to the nonlinear Vlasov-Maxwell system in a three-dimensional half-space beyond the vacuum scattering regime. Our approach combines the construction of stationary solutions to the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Jin Woo Jang , Chanwoo Kim

The foundations of gyrokinetic theory are reviewed with an emphasis on the applications of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods used in the derivation of nonlinear gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell equations. These reduced dynamical equations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain J. Brizard

In the previous works harmonic, phase-mixed, Alfven wave dynamics was considered both in the kinetic and magnetohydrodynamic regimes. Up today only magnetohydrodynamic, phase-mixed, Gaussian Alfven pulses were investigated. In the present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 D. Tsiklauri

We have considered an expansion of solutions of the non-linear equations for both longitudinal and transverse waves in collisionless Maxwellian plasma in series of non-damping overtones of the field E(x,t) and electron velocity distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 V. N. Soshnikov

In this work, the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is assessed as a time-domain numerical approach for electromagnetic wave scattering. Owing to its explicit formulation and suitability for parallel computation on structured grids, LBM…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Mohd. Meraj Khan , Sumesh P. Thampi , Anubhab Roy

The laser interaction with an electron-positron-ion mixed plasma is studied, from the perspective of the associated high-order harmonic generation. For an idealized mixed plasma which is assumed with a sharp plasma-vacuum interface and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 W. L. Zhang , T. Grismayer , K. M. Schoeffler , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

The propagation of plasma waves in a new non-linear, logarithmic electrodynamics model is performed. A cold, uniform, collisionless fluid plasma model is applied. Electrostatic waves in magnetized plasma are shown to correspond to modified…

A multispecies, collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. Assuming that the electric field decays with sufficient rapidity as $t \to\infty$, we show that the velocity characteristics and spatial averages of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Stephen Pankavich

This work models the propagation of an optical pulse in a 4-level atomic system in the electromagnetic induced transparency regime. By demonstrating that linear and nonlinear optical properties can be externally controlled and tailored by a…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-11 Nuno A. Silva , André L. Almeida , A. Guerreiro