arXiv · quant-ph/0305102
Statistical Effects in the Multistream Model for Quantum Plasmas
Abstract
A statistical multistream description of quantum plasmas is formulated, using the Wigner-Poisson system as dynamical equations. A linear stability analysis of this system is carried out, and it is shown that a Landau-like damping of plane wave perturbations occurs due to the broadening of the background Wigner function that arises as a consequence of statistical variations of the wave function phase. The Landau-like damping is shown to suppress instabilities of the one- and two-stream type.
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Dan Anderson, Björn Hall, Mietek Lisak, Mattias Marklund. 2003-05-19. Statistical Effects in the Multistream Model for Quantum Plasmas. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.65.046417
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