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Relations between particle and wave properties for charge carriers in periodic potentials of crystalline metals and semiconductors are derived. The particle aspects of electrons and holes in periodic potentials are considered using…

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A gas composed of a large number of atoms evolving according to Newtonian dynamics is often described by continuum hydrodynamics. Proving this rigorously is an outstanding open problem, and precise numerical demonstrations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-22 Subhadip Chakraborti , Santhosh Ganapa , P. L. Krapivsky , Abhishek Dhar

The instability of current-driven ion-acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free space plasma is investigated by using a nonextensive approach. The ions and the electrons are thought of in the power-law distributions that can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Zhipeng Liu , Liyan Liu , Jiulin Du

The behaviour of large amplitude electrostatic waves in cold plasma is investigated in the context of Born-Infeld electrodynamics. The equations of motion for the plasma are established using an unconstrained action principle. The maximum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 D. A. Burton , R. M. G. M. Trines , T. J. Walton , H. Wen

A new simulation box setup is introduced for the precise description of the wavepacket evolution of two electronic systems in intense laser pulses. In this box, the regions of the hydrogen molecule H$_{2} $, and singly and doubly ionized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Mohsen Vafaee , Firoozeh Sami , Babak Shokri , Behnaz Buzari , Hassan Sabzyan

Gaussian wavepackets are a popular tool for semiclassical analyses of classically chaotic systems. We demonstrate that they are extremely powerful in the semiquantal analysis of such systems, too, where their dynamics can be recast in an…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Arjendu K. Pattanayak , William C. Schieve

We present new results on the ionization by electron impacts in a dense plasma. We are interested in the density effect known as the ionization potential depression and in its role in atomic structure. Rather than using the well-known…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Djamel Benredjem , Jean-Christophe Pain , Annette Calisti , Sandrine Ferri

We consider a charged particle moving in the plane subject to electromagnetic potentials with non-vanishing radial limits. We analyse the classical and the quantum dynamics for large time in the case the angular part of the (limiting)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Horia Cornean , Ira Herbst , Erik Skibsted

Hyperspherical partial wave theory has been applied here in a new way in the calculation of the triple differential cross sections for the ionization of hydrogen atoms by electron impact at low energies for various equal-energy-sharing…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. N. Das , S. Paul , K. Chakrabarti

A new concept of the molecular structure optimization method based on quantum dynamics computations is presented. Nuclei are treated as quantum mechanical particles, as are electrons, and the many-body wave function of the system is…

Using Gaussian wave packet solutions, we examine how the kinetic energy is distributed in time-dependent solutions of the Schrodinger equation corresponding to the cases of a free particle, a particle undergoing uniform acceleration, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. W. Robinett , L. C. Bassett

The dynamics of electrons in the presence of a positive ion is considered for conditions of weak electron-electron couping but strong electron-ion coupling. The equilibrium electron density and electric field time correlation functions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James W. Dufty , Ilya V. Pogorelov , Bernard Talin , Annette Calisti

In collisionless astrophysical plasmas, turbulence mediates the partitioning of free energy among cascade channels and its dissipation into ion and electron heat. The resulting ion heating is often anisotropic, with ions observed to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Zade Johnston , Jonathan Squire

A detailed simple model is applied to study a high temperature plasma ball. It is assumed that the ions and delocalized electrons are distributed randomly throughout the charged plasma ball (extra/missing charge is assumed to be found in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 Yuri Kornyushin

The statistical properties of ions in two-dimensional fully developed turbulence have been compared between two different numerical algorithms. In particular, we compare Hybrid Particle In Cell (hybrid PIC with fluid electrons) and full PIC…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Francesco Pecora , Francesco Pucci , Giovanni Lapenta , David Burgess , Sergio Servidio

The thermodynamic consistency of quasiparticle boson system with effective mass $m^*$ and zero chemical potential is studied. We take the quasiparticle gluon plasma model as a toy model. The failure of previous treatments based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Shaoyu Yin , Ru-Keng Su

In this paper we explicate a method of quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) for the study of the quantum evolution of a system of polarized particles. Though we focused primarily on the two-dimension physical systems, the method is valid for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. A. Andreev , L. S. Kuzmenkov , M. I. Trukhanova

A recently introduced method utilizing dimensional continuation is employed to compute the energy loss rate for a non-relativistic particle moving through a highly ionized plasma. No restriction is made on the charge, mass, or speed of this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lowell S. Brown , Dean L. Preston , Robert L. Singleton

The hydrodynamic interpretation of quantum mechanics treats a system of particles in an effective manner. In this work, we investigate squeezed coherent states within the hydrodynamic interpretation. The Hamiltonian operator in question is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Nezihe Uzun

The fully nonlinear governing equations for spin 1/2 quantum plasmas are presented. Starting from the Pauli equation, the relevant plasma equations are derived, and it is shown that nontrivial quantum spin couplings arise, enabling studies…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Marklund , G. Brodin