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Collective modes in some Fokker-Planck Coulomb systems: One-dimensional case

✍ Scribed by Amal K. Das

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1977
Tongue: English
Weight: 381 KB
Volume: 87
Category: Article
ISSN: 0378-4371
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(77)90174-1

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✦ Synopsis

The collective modes in two Fokker-Planck Coulomb systems are studied in one dimension and in the long wavelength limit. The Fokker-Planck "friction coefficient", which can be related to the viscosity of the medium through the Stokes' law, is treated as a parameter. In a single component system it is shown under what circumstances the propagative plasma mode can become a diffusive mode. Depending on an inequality involving the friction coefficient and the plasmon frequency, the collective mode can illustrate certain properties of the so-called central peak. A two-component Vlasov-Fokker-Planck system exhibits three modes analogous to the Rayleigh scattering in a viscous fluid.

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