Landau damping of electrostatic waves in arbitrarily degenerate quantum plasmas

Relativistic Landau damping of longitudinal waves in isotropic pair plasmas

Accurate Formulas for the Landau Damping Rates of Electrostatic Waves

LLE Review, Volume 74 113 Laser–plasma instabilities1 are important in the field of inertial confinement fusion2 because they scatter laser light away from the target, which reduces the laser energy available to drive the compression of the nuclear fuel, or generate energetic electrons that preheat the fuel, which makes the fuel harder to compress. In stimulated Raman scattering an incident, or...

Neutrino Induced Electrostatic Waves in Degenerate Electron Plasmas

The plasma theory of electrostatic waves generated collisionlessly when neutrinos pass through degenerate electrons is developed. It is consistent with quantum statistical field theory in the degenerate limit. The reactive case can also be treated. For neutrino distributions considered herein, neither case develops significantly during e.g. the neutrino burst in a supernova explosion.

Landau Damping of Surface Plasma Waves

The integral of the kinetic electrostatic surface wave dispersion relation is asymptotically evaluated to determine the frequencies of the normal modes and the corresponding Landau damping for the high frequency surface electron plasma wave and the low frequency surface ion acoustic wave. The asymptotically calculated Landau damping rates apply to the limiting cases of kx e <<1 and kx e >>1 whe...

Landau damping of partially incoherent Langmuir waves

It is shown that partial incoherence, in the form of stochastic phase noise, of a Langmuir wave in an unmagnetized plasma gives rise to a Landau-type damping. Starting from the Zakharov equations, which describe the nonlinear interaction between Langmuir and ion-acoustic waves, a kinetic equation is derived for the plasmons by introducing the Wigner-Moyal transform of the complex Langmuir wave ...