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We study the expansion of ultracold neutral plasmas in the regime in which inelastic collisions are negligible. The plasma expands due to the thermal pressure of the electrons, and for an initial spherically symmetric Gaussian density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Laha , P. Gupta , C. E. Simien , H. Gao , J. Castro , T. Pohl , T. C. Killian

Equations describing the linear evolution of a non-dissipative Langmuir wave in inhomogeneous nonstationary anisotropic plasma without magnetic field are derived in the geometrical optics approximation. A continuity equation is obtained for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Y. Dodin , V. I. Geyko , N. J. Fisch

The structure of the singularity that is formed in a relativistically large amplitude plasma wave close to the wavebreaking limit is found by using a simple waterbag electron distribution function. The electron density distribution in the…

The weakly nonlinear regime of transverse paramagnetic dust grain oscillations in dusty (complex) plasma crystals is discussed. The nonlinearity, which is related to the sheath electric/magnetic field(s) and to the inter--grain…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla

We present a calculation of the natural oscillation spectrum of inhomogeneous non-neutral ultracold plasma. The collective modes of these plasma oscillations are recorded in experiments as absorption resonances of radio-frequency electric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 S. Ya. Bronin , S. A. Saakyan , E. V. Vikhrov , B. B. Zelener , B. V. Zelener

We carry out 3D and 2D PIC-simulations of the expansion of a magnetized plasma that initially uniformly fills a half-space and contains a semi-cylindrical region of heated electrons elongated along the surface of the plasma boundary. This…

Nonlinear electrodynamics model in hypercomplex form is considered. Its linearization around a solution is obtained. The appropriate problem for linear waves around static dyon solution (SDS) of Born-Infeld electrodynamics is investigated.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Chernitskii

We investigate the nonlinear interaction between a relativistically strong laser beam and a plasma in the quantum regime. The collective behavior of the electrons is modeled by a Klein-Gordon equation, which is nonlinearly coupled with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

Electron-scale surface waves are shown to be unstable in the transverse plane of a shear flow in an initially unmagnetized plasma, unlike in the (magneto)hydrodynamics case. It is found that these unstable modes have a higher growth rate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 E. P. Alves , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

We investigate the nonlinear interaction between two laser beams in a plasma in the weakly nonlinear and relativistic regime. The evolution of the laser beams is governed by two nonlinear Schroedinger equations that are coupled with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo , I. Kourakis , M. Parviainen , M. E. Dieckmann

We study the effect of unlinearized medium on the collective excitations in quark-gluon plasma. We present two kinds of non-Abelian oscillation solutions which respectively correspond to weakly and strongly nonlinear coupling of field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Zheng Xiaoping , Hou Defu , Li Jiarong

The expansion dynamics of a finite size plasma is examined from an analytical perspective. Results regarding the charge distribution as well as the electrostatic potential are presented. The acceleration of the ions and the associated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Betti , F. Ceccherini , F. Cornolti , F. Pegoraro

Plasma impedance probes (PIPs) are a type of RF probe that primarily measure electron density. This work introduces two advancements: a streamlined analytical model for interpreting PIP-monopole measurements and techniques for achieving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 John W. Brooks , Erik M. Tejero , Matthew C. Paliwoda , Michael S. McDonald

Phase mixing of relativistic large amplitude nonlinear plasma wave in presence of a time independent space periodic ion density profile has been investigated. Inhomogeneous ion along with the relativistic variation of electron mass make the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Mithun Karmakar , Chandan Maity , Nikhil Chakrabarti

The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

The evolution of electromagnetic (EM) solitons due to nonlinear coupling of circularly polarized intense laser pulses with low-frequency electron-acoustic perturbations is studied in relativistic degenerate dense astrophysical plasmas with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Sima Roy , Amar P. Misra

We present results of 2D3V particle-in-cell simulations of non-relativistic plasma collisions with absent or parallel large-scale magnetic field for parameters applicable to the conditions at young supernova remnants. We study the collision…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl , Antoine Bret , Volkmar Wieland

The spectral line shapes for hydrogen-like heavy ion emitters embedded in strongly correlated two-component electron-ion plasmas are investigated with numerical simulations. For that purpose the microfield fluctuations are calculated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. B. Nersisyan , C. Toepffer , G. Zwicknagel

Electron-acoustic waves occur in space and laboratory plasmas where two distinct electron populations exist, namely cool and hot electrons. The observations revealed that the hot electron distribution often has a long-tailed suprathermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Ashkbiz Danehkar

A two-fluid flowing plasma model is applied to describe the plasma rotation and resulted instability evolution in magnetically enhanced vacuum arc thruster (MEVAT). Typical experimental parameters are employed, including plasma density,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Lei Chang , Tianping Zhang , Xinyue Hu , Xianming Wu , Xinfeng Sun