• Plasma oscillations, also known as Langmuir waves (after Irving Langmuir), are rapid oscillations of the electron density in conducting media such as...
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  • In plasma physics, a lower hybrid oscillation is a longitudinal oscillation of ions and electrons in a magnetized plasma. The direction of propagation...
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  • In plasma physics, an upper hybrid oscillation is a mode of oscillation of a magnetized plasma. It consists of a longitudinal motion of the electrons...
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    criterion is satisfied, the plasma is quasineutral. Collisionlessness: The electron plasma frequency (measuring plasma oscillations of the electrons) is much...
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    Plasmon (category Plasma theory and modeling)
    plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation. Just as light (an optical oscillation) consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons. The...
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    Electric on microwaves, plasma physics and nuclear reactors. Under Irving Langmuir, his work pioneered the study of plasma oscillations. He is also noted for...
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  • In plasma physics, waves in plasmas are an interconnected set of particles and fields which propagate in a periodically repeating fashion. A plasma is...
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    Ball lightning (category Terrestrial plasmas)
    collective oscillations of free electrons. The simplest case corresponds to radial oscillations in a spherical plasma membrane. These oscillations are sustained...
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  • vibrations of atoms in a solid, and the plasmon, a particle derived from plasma oscillation. These phenomena are typically called quasiparticles if they are related...
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    in astronomy range from 2.4×1023 Hz (1 GeV gamma rays) down to the local plasma frequency of the ionized interstellar medium (~1 kHz). Wavelength is inversely...
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    In cosmology, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are fluctuations in the density of the visible baryonic matter (normal matter) of the universe, caused...
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    Quark–gluon plasma (QGP or quark soup) is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal (local kinetic) and (close to) chemical (abundance)...
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  • {ZB}{\mu }}\ {\mbox{rad/s}}} electron plasma frequency, the frequency with which electrons oscillate (plasma oscillation): ω p e = ( 4 π n e e 2 m e ) 1 2...
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  • electrons oscillate at a frequency ωpe, called electron plasma frequency. These oscillations do not propagate—the group velocity is 0. When the thermal...
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  • temperature and plasma density. Characteristic electron plasma frequency, the frequency with which electrons oscillate (plasma oscillation): ω p e = ( 4...
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    Its name is an abbreviation of the term transmission line shunted plasma oscillation qubit; one which consists of a Cooper-pair box "where the two superconductors...
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  • first developed the theory in 1954. Thomas–Fermi screening and the plasma oscillations can be derived as a special case of the more general Lindhard formula...
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    quantise the longitudinal electron oscillations about positive ion cores within the bulk of an electron gas (or plasma). The charge motion in a surface...
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  • Boltzmann relation (category Plasma physics equations)
    occur, for example, when oscillations occur so fast that the electrons cannot find a new equilibrium (see e.g. plasma oscillations) or when the electrons...
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    free electrons form a plasma that radiates energy due to Bremsstrahlung radiation. Electron gas can undergo plasma oscillation, which is waves caused...
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    equilibrium, large-amplitude, spherical plasma oscillations in electrostatic confinement devices". Physics of Plasmas. 5 (7): 2498–2503. Bibcode:1998PhPl...
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  • Electrostatic ion cyclotron wave (category Waves in plasmas)
    In plasma physics, an electrostatic ion cyclotron wave is a longitudinal oscillation of the ions (and electrons) in a magnetized plasma, propagating nearly...
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  • of the plasma oscillations of the electron gas m 2 {\displaystyle m_{2}}  relatively to the ionic lattice m 1 {\displaystyle m_{1}} . The plasma oscillations...
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  • Piezoelectric direct discharge (PDD) plasma is a type of cold non-equilibrium plasma, generated by a direct gas discharge of a high voltage piezoelectric...
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    started. They are also inherently unstable, prone to phenomena such as plasma oscillation and thermal runaway.[citation needed] Because of these characteristics...
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    excitation or quantum plasma oscillation where the electrons simultaneously oscillate with respect to all the ions. The simultaneous oscillation can be called...
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  • Mirnov oscillations (a.k.a. magnetic oscillations) are amplitude perturbations of the magnetic field in a plasma. It is named after Sergei V. Mirnov who...
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  • Debye length (category Plasma parameters)
    instead of Debye length. Bjerrum length Debye–Falkenhagen effect Plasma oscillation Shielding effect Screening effect Debye, P.; Hückel, E. (2019) [1923]...
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    known as a kink oscillation or kink mode) is a current-driven plasma instability characterized by transverse displacements of a plasma column's cross-section...
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  • frequency with respect with electron density can be related through plasma oscillation concept particularly the 'Cold' Electrons mechanism. ω p e = n e e...
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