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Landau damping and Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) modes are among the most fundamental concepts in plasma physics. While the former describes the surprising damping of linear plasma waves in a collisionless plasma, the latter describes…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-09-08 C. S. Ng , A. Bhattacharjee , F. Skiff

We revisit the quantum dynamics of a charged particle in a time-dependent magnetic field, a fundamental problem exhibiting rich non-adiabatic behaviour, from the complementary perspective of the Madelung fluid formulation. We first analyse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Nicolas Perez , Eyal Heifetz

We consider the Landau-Coulomb equation for a (hydrogen) plasma heated by an external electric field. In this setting, theoretical and experimental results in plasma physics show the emergence of so-called \emph{runaway electrons} which are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Ling-Bing He , Richard M. Höfer , Jie Ji , Raphael Winter

Plasma turbulence plays a critical role in the transport of energy from large-scale magnetic fields and plasma flows to small scales, where the dissipated turbulent energy ultimately leads to heating of the plasma species. A major goal of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Sarah A. Conley , Gregory G. Howes , Andrew J. McCubbin

The low-frequency acoustic-like modes in a pair plasma (electron-positron or pair-ion) is studied by employing a kinetic theory model based on the Vlasov and Poisson's equation with emphasizing the Tsallis's nonextensive statistics. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 E. Saberian , A. Esfandyari-Kalejahi

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a subject concerned with the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids (plasma) and can be applied in electric power generation. As a unique technology for producing direct-current electricity without moving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Osama A. Marzouk

Eulerian electrostatic kinetic simulations of unmagnetized plasmas (kinetic electrons and motionless protons) with high-frequency equilibrium perturbations have been employed to investigate the phase space free energy transfer across…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 G. Celebre , S. Servidio , F. Valentini

Reduced fluid models including electron inertia and ion finite Larmor radius corrections are derived asymptotically, both from fluid basic equations and from a gyrofluid model. They apply to collisionless plasmas with small ion-to-electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Thierry Passot , Pierre-Louis Sulem , Emanuele Tassi

Within the framework of the hypothesis offered by authors about complex-valued nature of physical quantities, the effect of the Landau damping has been explored with assumption that not only frequency can be a small imaginary component but…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Lyahov , V. M. Neshchadim

The Landau equation is a kinetic equation based on the weak coupling approximation of the interaction between the particles. In the framework of dry active matter this new kinetic equation relies on the weak coupling approximation of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-19 Aurelio Patelli

The propagation of ionic perturbations in a dusty plasma is considered through a three-species kinetic simulation approach, in which the temporal evolution of all three elements i.e. electrons, ions and dust particles are followed based on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 S. M. Hosseini Jenab , F. Spanier

A class of simple kinetic systems is considered, described by the 1D Vlasov-Landau equation with Poisson or Boltzmann electrostatic response and an energy source. Assuming a stochastic electric field, a solvable model is constructed for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 T. Adkins , A. A. Schekochihin

We study the damping of collisionless Alfv\'enic turbulence by two mechanisms: stochastic heating (whose efficiency depends on the local turbulence amplitude $\delta z_\lambda$) and linear Landau damping (whose efficiency is independent of…

We investigate electromagnetic buoyancy instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with the heat flux based on not the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, but using the multicomponent plasma approach when the momentum equations are solved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Anatoly Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

Fluid models offer crucial computational efficiency for plasma simulations, yet accurately capturing kinetic effects like Landau damping remains a fundamental challenge. While conventional closures (e.g., Hammett-Perkins and Hunana) are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Yong Sun , Shijia Chen , Minqing He , Sizhong Wu , Rui Cheng , Jie Yang , Lei Yang , Zhiyu Sun , Liangwen Chen , Hua Zhang

We employ magnetized plasma turbulence, described by a gyrokinetic formalism in an interval ranging from the end of the fluid scales to the electron gyroradius, to introduce the first study of kinetic intermittency, in which nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Bogdan Teaca , Alejandro Bañón Navarro , Daniel Told , Frank Jenko

A Hamiltonian two-field gyrofluid model is used to investigate the dynamics of an electron-ion collisionless plasma subject to a strong ambient magnetic field, within a spectral range extending from the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scales to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 T. Passot , S. S. Cerri , C. Granier , D. Laveder , P. L. Sulem , E. Tassi

A semiclassical method is used to study Landau damping of transverse pseudo-spin waves in harmonically trapped ultracold gases in the collisionless Boltzmann limit. In this approach, the time evolution of a spin is calculated numerically as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Ragan , W. J. Mullin , E. B. Wiita

We develop a purely hydrodynamic formalism to describe collisional, anisotropic instabilities in a relativistic plasma, that are usually described with kinetic theory tools. Our main motivation is the fact that coarse-grained models of high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Esteban Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

Landau's phenomenological theory of Fermi liquids is a fundamental paradigm in many-body physics that has been remarkably successful in explaining the properties of a wide range of interacting fermion systems, such as liquid helium-3,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-12 Rex Lundgren , Joseph Maciejko