N-body description of Debye shielding and Landau damping

Abstract

This paper brings further insight into the recently published N-body description of Debye shielding and Landau damping [Escande D F, Elskens Y and Doveil F 2014 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 57 025017]. Its fundamental equation for the electrostatic potential is derived in a simpler and more rigorous way. Various physical consequences of the new approach are discussed, and this approach is compared with the seminal one by Pines and Bohm [Pines D and Bohm D 1952 Phys. Rev. 85 338--353].

invited talk to 42nd EPS conference on plasma physics (Lisbon, 2015), submitted to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

References in corpus (1)

• Vlasov equation and $N$-body dynamics - How central is particle dynamics to our understanding of plasmas?

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Probing the energy conversion pathways between light, carriers and lattice in real time with attosecond core-level spectroscopy
• Cosmological Vlasov-Poisson equations for dark matter: Recent developments and connections to selected plasma problems
• Penetration depth of an electric field in a semi-infinite plasma
• Phase mixing importance for both Landau instability and damping