Transverse instability of electron phase-space holes in multi-dimensional Maxwellian plasmas

The stability of an initially one-dimensional electron hole to perturbations varying sinusoidally transverse to its trapping direction is analysed in detail. It is shown that the expected low-frequency eigenmode of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson system consists of a shift mode, proportional to the gr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hutchinson, Ian Horner
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124399