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Phase mixing importance for both Landau instability and damping

Part of: PLA The Vlasov Equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2017

D. D. A. Santos  and
Yves Elskens
D. D. A. Santos*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, CP: 04455, 70919-970 Brasília, DF, Brasil
Yves Elskens*
Affiliation:
Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS, UMR 7345 PIIM, case 322, campus Saint-Jérôme, FR-13013 Marseille, France
*
†Email addresses for correspondence: daniel_dourado@yahoo.com.br, yves.elskens@univ-amu.fr
†Email addresses for correspondence: daniel_dourado@yahoo.com.br, yves.elskens@univ-amu.fr
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Abstract

We discuss the self-consistent dynamics of plasmas by means of a Hamiltonian formalism for a system of $N$ near-resonant electrons interacting with a single Langmuir wave. The connection with the Vlasov description is revisited through the numerical calculation of the van Kampen-like eigenfrequencies of the linearized dynamics for many degrees of freedom. Both the exponential-like growth as well as damping of the Langmuir wave are shown to emerge from a phase mixing effect among beam modes, revealing unexpected similarities between the stable and unstable regimes.

Keywords

plasma dynamicsplasma instabilitiesplasma waves
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , 705830106
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© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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