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The nonlinear dynamics of coupled electrostatic upper-hybrid (UH) and Alfven waves (AWs) is revisited in a magnetized electron-ion plasma with charged dust impurities. A pair of nonlinear equations that describe the interaction of UH wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 A. P. Misra , S. Banerjee

A closed-form analytical solution is found for the nonlinear dynamics of isolated, near-threshold waves in the presence of strong scattering. The proposed solution can be useful in verifying codes across several disciplines, including…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Vinicius Duarte , Nikolai Gorelenkov

Parametric instabilities of parallel propagating, circularly polarized finite amplitude Alfven waves in a uniform background plasma is studied, within a framework of one-dimensional Vlasov description for ions and massless electron fluid,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Nariyuki , Tohru Hada

Using direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence the spatio-temporal behavior of magnetic field fluctuations is analyzed. Cases with relatively small, medium and large values of a mean background…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 R. Lugones , P. Dmitruk , P. D. Mininni , M. Wan , W. H. Matthaeus

We show that nonradiative interactions between atomic dipoles placed in a waveguide can give rise to deterministic entanglement at ranges much larger than their resonant wavelength. The range increases as the dipole-resonance approaches the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ephraim Shahmoon , Gershon Kurizki

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

Recently, it has been realized that magnetic plasma turbulence and magnetic field reconnection are inherently related phenomena. Turbulent fluctuations generate regions of a sheared magnetic field that become unstable to the tearing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno F. Loureiro

The resonant interaction of relativistic electrons and whistler waves is an important mechanism of electron acceleration and scattering in the Earth radiation belts and other space plasma systems. For low amplitude waves, such an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 A. V. Artemyev , A. I. Neishtadt , A. A. Vasiliev

The interactions of gravitational waves with interstellar matter, dealing with resonant wave-particle and wave-wave interactions, are considered on the basis of magnetic-type Maxwell-Vlasov equations. It is found that the behavior of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 X. Q. Li , S. Q. Liu , X. Y. Tao

Turbulence is a phenomenon found throughout space and astrophysical plasmas. It plays an important role in solar coronal heating, acceleration of the solar wind, and heating of the interstellar medium. Turbulence in these regimes is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Drake , J. W. R. Schroeder , G. G. Howes , C. A. Kletzing , F. Skiff , T. A. Carter , D. W. Auerbach

Fast reconnection operating in magnetically dominated plasmas is often invoked in models for magnetar giant flares, for magnetic dissipation in pulsar winds, or to explain the gamma-ray flares observed in the Crab nebula, hence its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 L. Del Zanna , E. Papini , S. Landi , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

Nonlinear diffusion equations of spectral transfer are systematically derived for anisotropic magnetohydrodynamics in the regime of wave turbulence. The background of the analysis is the asymptotic Alfv\'en wave turbulence equations from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sebastien Galtier , Eric Buchlin

A new particle acceleration process in a developing Alfv\'{e}n turbulence in the course of successive parametric instabilities of a relativistic pair plasma is investigated by utilyzing one-dimensional electromagnetic full particle code.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Matsukiyo , T. Hada

We investigate the interplay of phase mixing and the nonlinear turbulent cascade in the evolution and dissipation of Alfv\'en waves using compressible magnetohydrodynamics numerical simulations. We consider perturbations in the form of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Claudio Meringolo , Francesco Pucci , Giuseppe Nisticò , Oreste Pezzi , Sergio Servidio , Francesco Malara

Understanding magnetized laser-plasma interactions is important for controlling magneto-inertial fusion experiments and developing magnetically assisted radiation and particle sources. In the long-pulse regime, interactions are dominated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Yuan Shi

We show here that a purely kinetic approach to the excitation of waves by cosmic rays in the vicinity of a shock front leads to predict the appearance of a non-alfvenic fastly growing mode which is the same that was found by Bell (2004) by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-13 Pasquale Blasi , Elena Amato

Interaction of impulsively generated MHD waves with a one-dimensional plasma inhomogeneity, transverse to the magnetic field, is considered in the three-dimensional regime. Because of the transverse inhomogeneity, MHD fluctuations, even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov

In this paper we use the conventional quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) model in combination with the Sagdeev pseudopotential method to explore the effects of Thomas-Fermi nonuniform electron distribution, Coulomb interactions, electron exchange…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Using two-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations, we explore the nonlinear "interruption" of standing and traveling shear-Alfv\'en waves in collisionless plasmas. Interruption involves a self-generated pressure anisotropy removing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 J. Squire , M. W. Kunz , E. Quataert , A. A. Schekochihin

A dynamical vectorial equation for homogeneous incompressible Hall-MHD turbulence together with the exact scaling law for third-order correlation tensors, analogous to that for the incompressible MHD, is rederived and applied to the results…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Petr Hellinger , Andrea Verdini , Simone Landi , Luca Franci , Lorenzo Matteini