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Formulas for calculation of transverse dielectric function and transverse electric conductivity in quantum collisional Maxwellian plasma are obtained. The Wigner -- Vlasov -- Boltzmann kinetic equation with collision integral in BGK…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

We study the electrical conductivity of hot Abelian plasma containing scalar charge carriers in the leading logarithmic order in coupling constant $\alpha$ using the Boltzmann kinetic equation. The leading contribution to the collision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-20 O. O. Sobol

The motion of a collisionless plasma is described by the Vlasov-Poisson system, or in the presence of large velocities, the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system. Both systems are considered in one space and one momentum dimension, with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Stephen Pankavich , Robert Glassey , Jack Schaeffer

The Coulomb log (log {\Lambda}) approximation is widely used to approximate electron transport coefficients in dense plasmas. It is a classical approximation to the momentum transport cross section. The accuracy of this approximation for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Charles Starrett

An improved virial expansion for the low-density limit of the electrical conductivity $\sigma (T,n)$ of hydrogen as the simplest ionic plasma is presented. Quantum statistical methods provide exact values for the lowest virial coefficients,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 G. Röpke

We calculate the electric conductivity of a gas of relativistic particles with isotropic cross sections using the Boltzmann equation as the starting point. Our analyses is restricted to elastic collisions. We show the perfect agreement with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Moritz Greif , Carsten Greiner , Gabriel S. Denicol

It is shown that the anomalous resistivity, thermal conductivity, and magnetic pressure of hot plasmas can be explained by the assumption that the collisional electron-ion cross-section becomes constant above some critical temperature. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fedor V. Prigara

An analysis of plasma density distributions at arbitrary ion-atom collisionality for one-dimensional axially symmetrical cylindrical and annular plasmas is presented. Perturbations of plasma densities caused by a cylindrical probe are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Valery Godyak , Natalia Sternberg

This paper investigates the equations of motion for a relativistic charged particle in a general magnetic field. By reformulating the dynamics in four-dimensional spacetime and separating the linear and nonlinear parts, we construct an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Zhirui Shen , Bin Wang

Collisional and stochastic wave-particle dynamics in plasmas far from equilibrium are complex, temporally evolving, stochastic processes which are challenging to model. In this work, we extend previous methods coupling differentiable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Diogo D. Carvalho , Luis O. Silva , E. Paulo Alves

Plasmon and polariton modes are derived for an ideal semi-infinite (half-space) plasma and an ideal plasma slab by using a general, unifying procedure, based on equations of motion, Maxwell's equations and suitable boundary conditions.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Apostol , G. Vaman

We model relativistically colliding plasma by PIC simulations in one and two spatial dimensions, taking an ion-to-electron mass ratio of 400. Energy dissipation by a wave precursor of mixed polarity and different densities of the colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. E. Dieckmann , P. K. Shukla , L. O. C. Drury

The complete spectrum of plasmons of the two interpenetrating plasma streams is found in a closed analytic form. The orientation of the wave vector with respect to the stream direction is arbitrary and the plasmas, which are assumed to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Katarzyna Deja , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We present an approach which allows the consistent treatment of bound states in the context of the dc conductivity in dense partially ionized noble gas plasmas. Besides electron-ion and electron-electron collisions, further collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Sebastian Rosmej , Heidi Reinholz , Gerd Röpke

A simple model for the dielectric function of a completely ionized plasma with an arbitrary ionic charge, that is valid for long-wavelength high-frequency perturbations is derived using an approximate solution of a linearized Fokker-Planck…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 H. B. Nersisyan , M. E. Veysman , N. E. Andreev , H. H. Matevosyan

After developing a scattering theory for grazing collisions in general noncanonical phase spaces, we introduce a guiding center collision operator in five-dimensional phase space designed for plasma regimes characterized by long wavelengths…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Naoki Sato , Philip J. Morrison

The dynamics of relativistic electrons interacting with a laser pulse in a plasma wave has been investigated theoretically and numerically based on the classical Landau-Lifshitz equation. There exists a convergent trajectory of electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Bin Liu , Bifeng Lei , Matt Zepf , Xueqing Yan

We derive a steady-state, electromagnetic solution for collisional plasma and apply it to computing the total conductance for a vertically stratified ionosphere interrogated by a 3D signal with finite transverse wavelength, which we compare…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Russell B. Cosgrove

The kinetic description of magnetic susceptibility and Landau diamagnetism of quantum collisional plasmas with any degeration of electronic gas is given. The correct expression of electric conductivity of quantum collisional plasmas with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

We investigate the response of a relativistic plasma to electromagnetic fields in the framework of the Boltzmann equation incorporating a collision term in the relaxation rate approximation selected in a form assuring current conservation.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Martin Formanek , Christopher Grayson , Johann Rafelski , Berndt Müller