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Title: Laboratory Study of Nonlinear Trapping of Magnetized Langmuir Waves Inside a Density Depletion

Abstract

The formation of a small-scale plasma density depletion region extended along the ambient magnetic field and caused by the nonlinear interaction of the upper-hybrid plasma waves with a magnetoplasma has been observed under laboratory conditions modeling the ionospheric heating experiments. Plasma waves are trapped inside the depletion due to their specific dispersion properties. The threshold of the nonlinear wave trapping significantly increases in the vicinity of the harmonics of the electron gyrofrequency.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation)
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OSTI Identifier:
20951354
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Journal Article
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Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 19; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.195001; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ELECTRONS; GYROFREQUENCY; HARMONICS; LANGMUIR FREQUENCY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PLASMA; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA SIMULATION; PLASMA WAVES; TRAPPING

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Starodubtsev, Mikhail V., Nazarov, Vladimir V., and Kostrov, Alexander V. Laboratory Study of Nonlinear Trapping of Magnetized Langmuir Waves Inside a Density Depletion. United States: N. p., 2007. Web. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.195001.
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Starodubtsev, Mikhail V., Nazarov, Vladimir V., & Kostrov, Alexander V. Laboratory Study of Nonlinear Trapping of Magnetized Langmuir Waves Inside a Density Depletion. United States. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.195001.
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Starodubtsev, Mikhail V., Nazarov, Vladimir V., and Kostrov, Alexander V. Fri . "Laboratory Study of Nonlinear Trapping of Magnetized Langmuir Waves Inside a Density Depletion". United States. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.195001.
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@article{osti_20951354,
title = {Laboratory Study of Nonlinear Trapping of Magnetized Langmuir Waves Inside a Density Depletion},
author = {Starodubtsev, Mikhail V. and Nazarov, Vladimir V. and Kostrov, Alexander V.},
abstractNote = {The formation of a small-scale plasma density depletion region extended along the ambient magnetic field and caused by the nonlinear interaction of the upper-hybrid plasma waves with a magnetoplasma has been observed under laboratory conditions modeling the ionospheric heating experiments. Plasma waves are trapped inside the depletion due to their specific dispersion properties. The threshold of the nonlinear wave trapping significantly increases in the vicinity of the harmonics of the electron gyrofrequency.},
doi = {10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.195001},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 19,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
month = {Fri May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2007}
}
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DOI:  10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.195001
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