Quantum ion acoustic solitary waves in electron-ion plasmas: A Sagdeev potential approach

Linear and nonlinear ion acoustic waves are studied in unmagnetized electron-ion quantum plasmas. Sagdeev potential approach is employed to describe the nonlinear quantum ion acoustic waves. It is found that density dips structures are formed in the subsonic region in a electron-ion quantum plasma case. The amplitude of the nonlinear structures remains constant and the width is broadened with the increase in the quantization of the system. However, the nonlinear wave amplitude is reduced with the increase in the wave Mach number. The numerical results are also presented.     

A novel type of solitons in electron-ion plasmas

By using one-dimensional self-consistent relativistic fluid model,a novel type of moving relativistic electro magnetic solitons with high intensity in electron-ion plasmas where the ion dynamics is taken into account is investigated numerically.Unlike solitons with single-humped scalar potential found in previous studies,these solitons possess multi-humped scalar and vector potential.The existence of such soliton solutions is investigated in plasmas with different background densities,and the properties of these solitons are presented in detail.We found that the peculiar profile of electron density has alternating regions of humps and dips like a Bragg's grating.     

Orientation phenomena for electron-ion collisional excitations in strongly coupled plasmas

In strongly coupled plasmas, the orientation phenomena for direct excitations in electron-hydrogenic ion collisions are investigated using the ion-sphere interaction potential. For small impact parameters, the orientation parameters have minima which correspond to the complete transitions. The target screening effects slightly increase the probability of populating the 2p_-1 state. Received: 16 December 1998 / Received in final form: 23 March 1999     

非均匀等离子体对平面电磁波的衰减

利用荧光灯排列形成非均匀等离子体层（面积约60 cm×52 cm,消耗功率约400 W）,研究了其对1～8 GHz E波（电矢量方向平行于灯轴方向的入射波）的反射和透射的影响。结果表明,该等离子体对1～4 GHz的E波具有强吸收和弱反射的特性,单程衰减最高可达8 dB。利用2维分段线性电流密度递归卷积时域有限差分计算式,模拟了E波传播及其在非均匀等离子体内推进的瞬态过程,计算了等离子体对电磁波的反射和透射衰减,并与实验结果拟合,得到等离子体电子数密度峰值约9.72×1016 m-3-3,电子与中性粒子碰撞频率约4 GHz。     

非均匀等离子体对平面电磁波的衰减

利用荧光灯排列形成非均匀等离子体层(面积约60cm×52cm,消耗功率约400W),研究了其对1～8GHzE波(电矢量方向平行于灯轴方向的入射波)的反射和透射的影响。结果表明,该等离子体对1～4GHz的E波具有强吸收和弱反射的特性,单程衰减最高可达8dB。利用2维分段线性电流密度递归卷积时域有限差分计算式,模拟了E波传播及其在非均匀等离子体内推进的瞬态过程,计算了等离子体对电磁波的反射和透射衰减,并与实验结果拟合,得到等离子体电子数密度峰值约9.72×1016m-3,电子与中性粒子碰撞频率约4GHz。     

Laser cooling of recombining electron-ion plasma

A method of producing and confining ultracold electron-ion plasma with a strongly nonideal ion subsystem is considered. The method is based on the laser cooling of plasma ions by the radiation resonant with the ion quantum transition. A model is developed for the laser cooling of recombining plasma. Computer simulation based on this model showed that the ion nonideality parameter can be as large as ～100. The data obtained demonstrate that the production of ultracold nonideal plasma is quite possible.     

Ion-acoustic dressed soliton in electron-ion quantum plasma

Ion acoustic dressed soliton in an unmagnetized two-species electron-ion quantum plasma is studied. Using reductive perturbation technique, a higher order inhomogeneous (KdV-type) differential equation is derived for the second order correction. The nonsecular solution is obtained by using renormalization procedure. A new technique is used to obtain the particular solution of the higher order inhomogeneous equation which is found to be simpler compared to the technique used by previous investigators.     

Higher order corrections and temperature effects to ion acoustic shock waves in quantum degenerate electron-ion plasma

The contribution of higher-order nonlinearity and dissipation to nonlinear ion acoustic shock waves (IASWs) is investigated by using the reductive perturbation technique in dense electron-ion plasma. The model consists of degenerate electrons (being either ultrarelativistic or nonrelativistic) and nonrelativistic ion fluid. A nonlinear Burger equation and a linear inhomogeneous Burger-type equation are derived. The inclusion of the higher-order corrections results in creating new shock wave structures, humped IASWs. It is found that the kinematic viscosity and the equilibrium ion number density play important roles in the basic features of the produced IA shocks and the associated electric fields. These findings are devoted to explaining the observed waves propagating in the outer periphery of compact dense stars which mostly consists of hydrogen and degenerate electrons.     

Nonlinear interactions between electromagnetic waves and electron plasma oscillations in quantum plasmas

We consider nonlinear interactions between intense circularly polarized electromagnetic (CPEM) waves and electron plasma oscillations (EPOs) in a dense quantum plasma, taking into account the electron density response in the presence of the relativistic ponderomotive force and mass increase in the CPEM wave fields. The dynamics of the CPEM waves and EPOs is governed by the two coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger equations and Poisson's equation. The nonlinear equations admit the modulational instability of an intense CPEM pump wave against EPOs, leading to the formation and trapping of localized CPEM wave pipes in the electron density hole that is associated with a positive potential distribution in our dense plasma. The relevance of our investigation to the next generation intense laser-solid density plasma interaction experiments is discussed.     

Relativistic electromagnetic solitons in the electron-ion plasma

We present the results of the investigation about the ion motion influence on relativistic soliton structure, and show that in the case of moving multinode solitons the effect of the ion dynamics results in the limiting of its amplitude. The constraint on the maximum amplitude corresponds to either the ion motion breaking in the low-node-number case, or to the electron trajectory self-intersection in the case of high-node-number solitons. The soliton breaking leads to the generation of fast ions, and provides a novel mechanism for the ion acceleration in the plasma irradiated by the high-intensity laser pulses.     

Stability of two-dimensional monopolies in plasmas

Monopole vortices, obeying the homogeneous Hasegawa-Mima equation or the convective cell equation in magnetized plasmas are considered. It is shown that two-dimensional perturbations of single vortices in the plane perpendicular to the external magnetic field do not grow in time. It is also argued that three-dimensional perturbations will not lead to an instability of monopoles.     

Dust-lower-hybrid waves in quantum plasmas

The dispersion relation of the dust-lower-hybrid wave has been derived using the quantum hydrodynamic model of plasmas in an ultracold Fermi dusty plasma in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field. The dust dynamics, electron Fermi temperature effect, and the quantum corrections give rise to significant effects on the dust-lower-hybrid wave of the magnetized quantum dusty plasmas.     

Subharmonic resonances in plasmas: exponential and superexponential growth of driven relativistic plasma waves

Subharmonic resonant beat-wave excitation of nonlinear relativistic plasma waves is studied analytically and in particle-in-cell simulations. We find that if the frequency separation of the lasers, Deltaomega, is 2omega(p) or 3omega(p) ( omega(p) is the plasma frequency), then plasma waves are still excited at omega(p) but they grow exponentially or superexponentially rather than secularly. Both of these subharmonic resonant instabilities saturate due to relativistic detuning. The analytical growth rates and saturation levels agree with the simulation results.     

Transverse waves in a two-dimensional screened-coulomb crystal (Dusty plasma)

Transverse shear waves were observed experimentally in a two-dimensional screened Coulomb crystal. They were excited by applying a chopped laser beam to a 2D dusty plasma, i.e., a monolayer of charged microspheres levitated in a plasma. Measurements of the dispersion relation reveal an acoustic, i.e., nondispersive, character over the entire range of wave numbers measured, 0.2相似文献   

Large-amplitude electromagnetic waves in relativistic plasmas

The propagation of linearly polarized large-amplitude electromagnetic waves in relativistic plasmas is studied in the framework of the Akhiezer-Polovin-model. Different forms of the basic equations are reviewed and important solutions are presented for small and critical plasma densities. The well-known periodic solutions are generalized to quasiperiodic solutions taking account of additional electrostatic oscillations.     

Intense circularly polarized waves in plasmas

The nonlinear propagation of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave in a cold plasma is investigated. A relativistic modulational instability and an exact localized solutions are found.     

Fusion burning waves in degenerate plasmas

The outcome of fusion burning waves in non-degenerate plasmas is limited by the strength of ion–electron Coulomb collisions and subsequent energy loss mechanisms as electron heat conduction and radiation emission. In this Letter, an analysis is presented on the degeneracy effects in the stopping power of suprathermal charged particles and in the energy transmitted from ions to electrons by Coulomb collision. Main results of this analysis is that very powerful fusion burning waves can be launched into previously compressed degenerate plasmas. This can be specially suitable for proton–boron fusion, but it also applicable to any type of fusion reaction, where ignition can be triggered by an incoming ion beam or another external source of energy deposited in a small fraction of the compressed plasma (fast ignition).