Nonlinear Weibel-type soliton modes

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/4/045501MaRDI QIDQ3074698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. C. Tautz, I. Lerche

Publication date 10 February 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1055

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vlasov equations (35Q83) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Abstract: Discussion is given of non-linear soliton behavior including coupling between electrostatic and electromagnetic potentials for non-relativistic, weakly relativistic, and fully relativistic plasmas. For plasma distribution functions that are independent of the canonical momenta perpendicular to the soliton spatial structure direction there are, in fact, no soliton behaviors allowed because transverse currents are zero. Dependence on the transverse canonical momenta is necessary. When such is the case, it is shown that the presence or absence of a soliton is intimately connected to the functional form assumed for the particle distribution functions. Except for simple situations, the coupled non-linear equations for the electrostatic and electromagnetic potentials would seem to require numerical solution procedures. Examples are given to illustrate all of these points for non-relativistic, weakly relativistic, and fully relativistic plasmas.

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