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Molecular dynamics simulations are used to assess the influence of Coulomb coupling on the energy evolution of charged projectiles in the classical one-component plasma. The average projectile kinetic energy is found to decrease linearly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 David J. Bernstein , Scott D. Baalrud , Jerome Daligault

A weakly ionized plasma under the influence of a strong electric field is considered. Supposing a local Maxwellian distribution for the electron momenta the plasma is described by hydrodynamic equations for the pair distribution functions.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ortner

We develop analytic approximations of thermodynamic functions of fully ionized nonideal electron-ion plasma mixtures. In the regime of strong Coulomb coupling, we use our previously developed analytic approximations for the free energy of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 A. Y. Potekhin , G. Chabrier , F. J. Rogers

This work extends the previously developed mean force emission theory to describe electron-ion plasmas. Results are compared to molecular dynamics simulations. The main extensions are to account for the attractive nature of electron-ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Julian P. Kinney , Heath J. LeFevre , Carolyn C. Kuranz , Scott D. Baalrud

Kinetic effects in plasma flow due to a finite ion temperature and ion reflections in a converging-diverging magnetic nozzle are investigated with collisionless quasineutral hybrid simulations with kinetic ions and isothermal Boltzmann…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Marilyn Jimenez , Andrei Smolyakov , Oleksandr Chapurin , Peter Yushmanov

A supersonic flow of magnetized plasma is produced by the application of a 1 MA-peak, 500 ns current pulse to a cylindrical arrangement of parallel wires, known as an inverse wire array. The plasma flow is produced by the JxB acceleration…

The behavior of H-like ions embedded in astrophysical plasmas in the form of \emph{dense, strongly and weakly coupled} plasmas are investigated. In these, the increase and decrease in temperature is impacted with a change in confinement…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Neetik Mukherjee , Chandra Nath Patra , Amlan K. Roy

Classical plasmas in thermodynamic equilibrium should be neither para- nor diamagnetic due to the action of the Lorentz force. Magnetic confinement, however, is based on the observed diamagnetism of laboratory plasmas. The apparent paradox…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Wolfgang Engelhardt

In the present paper, we develop a semiclassical quasi-static model accounting for molecular double ionization in an intense laser pulse. With this model, we achieve insight into the dynamics of two highly-correlated valence electrons under…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-13 Di-Fa Ye , Jing Chen , Jie Liu

We study a hybrid quantum system composed of an ion and an electric dipole. We show how a trapped ion can be used to measure the small electric field generated by a classical dipole. We discuss the application of this scheme to measure the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-13 Jordi Mur-Petit , Juan José García-Ripoll

Recent experiments with ultracold neutral plasmas show an intrinsic heating effect based on the development of spatial correlations. We investigate whether this effect can be reversed, so that imposing strong spatial correlations could in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Pohl , T. Pattard , J. M. Rost

We study the ion response to an initial perturbation in a weakly ionized plasma with ion flow driven by a dc electric field. The analysis is made by extending the classical Landau work [J. Phys. (USSR) 10, 25 (1946)] to the ion kinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Roman Kompaneets , Yuriy O. Tyshetskiy , Sergey V. Vladimirov

The electric microfield distribution at charged particles is studied for two-component electron-ion plasmas using molecular dynamics simulation and theoretical models. The particles are treated within classical statistical mechanics using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. B. Nersisyan , C. Toepffer , G. Zwicknagel

Electron cooling is a well-established method to improve the phase space quality of ion beams in storage rings. In the common rest frame of the ion and the electron beam the ion is subjected to a drag force and it experiences a loss or a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-05 H. B. Nersisyan , G. Zwicknagel

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to show that strong magnetization significantly increases the space and time scales associated with interparticle correlations. The physical mechanism responsible is a channeling effect whereby…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Keith R. Vidal , Scott D. Baalrud

The recently proposed effective potential theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235001 (2013)] is used to investigate the influence of coupling on inter-ion-species diffusion and momentum exchange in multi-component plasmas. Thermo-diffusion and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Grigory Kagan , Scott D. Baalrud , Jerome Daligault

Using a 2-1/2-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) code to simulate the relativistic expansion of a magnetized collisionless plasma into a vacuum, we report a new mechanism in which the magnetic energy is efficiently converted into the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Edison Liang , Kazumi Nishimura , Hui Li , S. Peter Gary

The electron residual energy originated from the stochastic heating in under-dense field-ionized plasma is here investigated. The optical response of plasma is initially modeled by using the concept of two counter-propagating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Elnaz Khalilzadeh , Jam Yazdanpanah , Jafar Jahanpanah , Amir Chakhmachi , Elnaz Yazdani

In the present work, we study the classical behavior of an electric dipole in presence of an external uniform magnetic field. We derive equations and constants of motion from the Lagrangian formulation. We obtain an infinitely periodic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paulina I. Troncoso , Sergio Curilef

In partially ionized plasma, where ions can be in different ionization states, each charge state can be described as a different fluid for the purpose of multi-ion collisional transport. In the case of two charge states, transport pushes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 M. E. Mlodik , E. J. Kolmes , I. E. Ochs , T. Rubin , N. J. Fisch