{"title":"Classical and quantum theory of fluctuations for many-particle systems out of equilibrium","authors":"E. Schroedter, M. Bonitz","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.202400015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Correlated classical and quantum many-particle systems out of equilibrium are of high interest in many fields, including dense plasmas, correlated solids, and ultracold atoms. Accurate theoretical description of these systems is challenging both, conceptionally and with respect to computational resources. While for classical systems, in principle, exact simulations are possible via molecular dynamics, this is not the case for quantum systems. Alternatively, one can use many-particle approaches such as hydrodynamics, kinetic theory, or nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF). However, NEGF exhibit a very unfavorable cubic scaling of the CPU time with the number of time steps. An alternative is the G1–G2 scheme [N. Schlünzen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. <b>124</b>, 076601 (2020)] which allows for NEGF simulations with time linear scaling, however, at the cost of large memory consumption. The reason is the need to store the two-particle correlation function. This problem can be overcome for a number of approximations by reformulating the kinetic equations in terms of fluctuations – an approach that was developed, for classical systems, by Yu.L. Klimontovich [JETP <b>33</b>, 982 (1957)]. Here, we present an overview of his ideas and extend them to quantum systems. In particular, we demonstrate that this quantum fluctuations approach can reproduce the nonequilibrium <i>GW</i> approximation [E. Schroedter <i>et al</i>., Cond. Matt. Phys. <b>25</b>, 23401 (2022)] promising high accuracy at low computational cost which arises from an effective semiclassical stochastic sampling procedure. We also demonstrate how to extend the approach to the two-time exchange-correlation functions and the density response properties. [E. Schroedter <i>et al</i>., Phys. Rev. B <b>108</b>, 205109 (2023)]. The results are equivalent to the Bethe–Salpeter equation for the two-time exchange-correlation function when the generalized Kadanoff-Baym ansatz with Hartree-Fock propagators is applied [E. Schroedter and M. Bonitz, phys. stat. sol. (b) 2024, 2300564].</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ctpp.202400015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental investigation of styrene destruction by DBD plasma and its conversion pathways","authors":"Huan Zheng, Guohua Ni, Hongmei Sun, Yanjun Zhao, Siyuan Sui, Zhongyang Ma","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.202400010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work was devoted to the investigation of the contribution of various species in plasma to styrene decomposition. Different background gases (air, argon, nitrogen, and oxygen) and plasma reactor (in-plasma, post-plasma, and post-plasma with buffer tube) were employed in this experiment. The results showed that degradation and polymerization of styrene occur simultaneously in the plasma treatment process. In the discharge zone, the bombardment of electrons and energetic particles on styrene and its degradation intermediates played a role in breaking its weak bond energy and promoting their conversion. The short-lived reactive species with high oxidation potential in plasma were the prerequisite for complete degradation of styrene, due to its ability of breaking bonds with large bond energies, such as benzene ring. Away from the discharge zone, long-lived reactive oxygen species further oxidized and degraded styrene, and its intermediates outside the discharge zone, promoting their mineralization.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resonant and nonresonant excitation of waves in a planar magnetosonic flow","authors":"Anna Perelomova","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400033","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Forced propagation of perturbations in a magnetosonic wave are considered. The driving force may be caused by stimulated Mandelstam–Brillouin scattering of optic waves or by intense magnetosonic exciter. Some heating-cooling function which takes into account radiative cooling and unspecified heating is taken into consideration, as well as nonlinearity of a medium. Both these factors make the excitation particular. The analytical and numerical evaluations reveal that forced oscillations differ essentially from the free propagation and depend on a number of dimensionless parameters such as the ratio of speed of exciter to the eigen speed of excited wave, the ratio of speed of an excited wave to its eigen speed, and the dimensionless magnitude of an exciter. Forced excitation is resonant if speed of an exciter coincides with the eigen speed of excited wave but may give rise to the excited perturbations with the speed different from the eigen one. The preliminary evaluations may be helpful for the controlled excitation of perturbations in natural and laboratory plasma systems and indication of the parameters of an exciter.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141367280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marlene Rosenberg, James Dufty, Peter Hartmann, Zoltán Donkó
{"title":"Strongly coupled Coulomb systems: Honoring Ken Golden and Gabor Kalman","authors":"Marlene Rosenberg, James Dufty, Peter Hartmann, Zoltán Donkó","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400068","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141367637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radially polarized femtosecond laser interaction with unmagnetized plasma slab and symmetric modes for enhanced terahertz field generation","authors":"Himank Sagar, Suresh C. Sharma","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400020","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider the excitation of terahertz (THz) electromagnetic fields by interaction of radially polarized laser pulses of diverse profiles with a homogenous plasma density slab. We utilize the properties of the laser pulse to generate THz fields in a plasma slab. It is shown that the radial ponderomotive force exerted by laser imparts an oscillatory velocity to plasma electrons and drives a nonlinear current in azimuthal direction exciting THz electromagnetic fields in the plasma slab. The dependence of the excited radial electric field and azimuthal magnetic field on axial and radial parameters of the plasmas lab, as well as on the slab thickness and laser pulse width size, is investigated. It is demonstrated that the terahertz fields are generated most efficiently with a frequency close to the plasma frequency. It is also shown that the intensity of the excited fields may be optimized and controlled by the plasma slab and laser pulse parameters. Rectangular-triangular, super-Gaussian, and sinusoidal lasers exhibit a significantly steeper radial gradient of ponderomotive potential in comparison with other laser profiles, and excite intense radial electric fields and generate azimuthal magnetic fields in plasma slab. The numerical results closely follow the scaling laws and match with previous experimental and simulation results.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141372706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First results of multi-fluid modeling of detached hydrogen plasmas in a linear plasma device using fluid code LINDA-NU","authors":"Kento Sugiura, Taichi Ido, Hirohiko Tanaka, Hiroki Natsume, Shota Masuda, Kazuo Hoshino, Keiji Sawada, Noriyasu Ohno","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202300150","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202300150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to simulate hydrogen (H) plasma in the linear plasma device NAGDIS-II, we have modified the fluid code LINDA-NU to allow the simultaneous calculation of multiple ion species consisting of hydrogen atomic ions (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>) and molecular ions (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_2^{+},{mathrm{H}}_3^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>). In this simulation, H and <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_2 $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> neutrals are assumed to be uniformly distributed in space in order to obtain initial qualitative results. The fraction of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_3^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> ions increases as the <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_2 $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> molecular density increases, and the recombination process between <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msubsup>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msubsup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_3^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> and electrons is observed to reduce the particle flux to the target plate. With an increase in H density, the electron density increases due to the decrease in ion flow velocity due to the change exchange process, and the ele","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 7-8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ctpp.202300150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141381018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accurate analytical evaluation of the generalized logarithmic and double Fermi–Dirac and Bose–Einstein functions","authors":"Bahtiyar A. Mamedov, Duru Özgül","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400051","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The accurate definition and powerful evaluation modeling of the various generalized Fermi–Dirac and Bose–Einstein functions remain a challenging problem in various areas of physics. In this study, we develop a general analytical technique for accurately calculating logarithmic and double Fermi–Dirac and Bose–Einstein functions. The obtaining analytical formulae are established by considering the binomial expansion theorem. The obtained expressions are valid in chemical potential values between -∞ <μ <0 and have been designated as explicit form features, high precision, and less computing time. The calculation results are tabularly illustrated to show the consistency of the analytical relations analysis under the effect of parameters. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the results, they are potentially useful in applications to evaluate thermionic emission and astrophysics problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141271588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of ultrashort trapezoidal temporal pulse profile in laser wakefield acceleration in bubble regime","authors":"Sonu Kumar, Dhananjay K. Singh, Hitendra K. Malik","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202300181","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202300181","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A computational study is presented on laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) in bubble regime with the use of ultrashort laser pulse propagating in an under-dense plasma. The Particle-In-Cell simulations are performed to investigate the bubble wakefield acceleration of electrons realized by the incidence of an intense laser beam on cold, under-dense plasma in two-dimensional geometry. Different simulations are carried out and the results are compared for the beams with trapezoidal and Gaussian temporal pulse profiles having almost equal but slightly different energy contents. Focus is given to plasma density modulation, wakefield strength, electrons self-injection, energy spectrum of accelerated electrons, the effect of an external longitudinal magnetic field and the study of pump depletion length and dephasing length in bubble regime with respect to these laser pulse profiles. Two limiting cases of the trapezoidal pulse, that is, triangular and rectangular pulses, are also discussed for better understanding of the role of steepness and plateau region in the laser pulse profile to the bubble wakefield acceleration. Since down ramp density gradient plays a crucial role for the generation of high-quality electron beam in plasma wakefield acceleration as well as in LWFA, three different adjustments on the down ramp length determining three different density gradients are discussed for uncovering the role of trapezoidal laser pulse in LWFA.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141198439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuchen Xu, Shifeng Mao, Wenjin Chen, Zhiwei Ma, Minyou Ye
{"title":"Study of the influence of magnetic shear on the linear MHD instabilities in the pedestal of elongated divertor configurations using CLT code","authors":"Yuchen Xu, Shifeng Mao, Wenjin Chen, Zhiwei Ma, Minyou Ye","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202300106","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202300106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Edge localized modes resulted from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities in the pedestal region are a significant concern for future tokamaks. In this work, Ci-Liu-Ti (CLT), an MHD code in the three-dimensional toroidal geometry, is applied for the linear simulation of the ideal pedestal MHD instabilities. The simulations are performed for the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak-like elongated divertor configuration with large triangularity, which is generated by the high-accuracy free-boundary equilibrium solver (CLT-EQuilibrium, i.e., CLT-EQ) developed recently. The present work focuses on the influence of the magnetic shear, which is scanned by adjusting the pedestal current with a fixed pedestal pressure profile. As the pedestal current increases, both the local (<i>S</i><sub>local</sub>) and global (<i>S</i><sub>global</sub>) magnetic shear decrease. The ballooning mode is destabilized along with the decrease of <i>S</i><sub>local</sub>, and stabilized when <i>S</i><sub>local</sub> is negative for the whole region of bad curvature, which implies the access of the second stable region. Further increase of the pedestal current leads to the destabilization of the kink mode, which is stabilized again until <i>S</i><sub>global</sub> is negative at the location of significant gradient of current density. The simulated results are consistent with the findings in Radovanovic et al. Nucl. Fusion 62 (2022) 086004 and C. K. Sun et al. Phys. Plasmas 25 (2018) 082106, which indicates the availability of CLT in the linear simulation of the ideal pedestal instabilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"64 7-8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amplitude modulation and nonlinear dynamics of small amplitude ion-acoustic waves in five component cometary plasmas","authors":"Debaditya Kolay, Debjit Dutta, Biswajit Sahu","doi":"10.1002/ctpp.202400008","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ctpp.202400008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The formation and propagation dynamics of the finite-amplitude ion-acoustic wave (IAW) structures (e.g., soliton, breather, rogue wave, etc.) is theoretically investigated in a plasma comprising of kappa distributed solar and cometary electrons of different temperatures, a hot <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>O</mi>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ {mathrm{H}}_3{mathrm{O}}^{+} $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> drift ion component, and a pair of oppositely charged oxygen ion components. The modified-KdV (mKdV) equation is derived in order to study the propagation dynamics of the ion-acoustic solitary wave (IASW). It is then converted into the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) through appropriate algebraic manipulation in order to observe the amplitude modulation of the IAWs. Also, the appearance of envelope soliton and the possibility of breather structure formation have been studied from the NLS equation. The dependence of plasma parameters on the formation and propagation of IAW structures has been briefly discussed. The modified-KdV equation is reduced in a dynamical system through the application of coordinate transformation. The existence of finite-amplitude nonlinear and supernonlinear IAWs is demonstrated by phase plane analysis. Due to the fact that the results are primarily associated with cometary plasma, they possibly provide greater insight of the nonlinear characteristics of cometary plasma.</p>","PeriodicalId":10700,"journal":{"name":"Contributions to Plasma Physics","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}