17 papers
Electromagnetic Emission from a Black Hole Evaporating in External Magnetic Field
Soumya Samrat Mandal, Maxim Lyutikov
We describe a classical (non-quantum) radiation process: additional (to Hawking) emission by a black hole evaporating in an external magnetic field in vacuum. The electromagnetic r…
Anderson self-localization of light in pair plasmas
Maxim Lyutikov, Victor Gurarie
The paper shows that weakly nonlinear electromagnetic waves in a pair plasma can create random density fluctuations that cause Anderson self‑localization of the light, leading to t…
Particle dynamics in nonlinear electromagnetic waves: chaos onset, diffusive heating, and wave surfing
Maxim Lyutikov
We investigate the dynamics of charged particles interacting with ultra-intense electromagnetic X-modes in strongly magnetized plasmas. We demonstrate that particle motion becomes…
Long-period radio transient PSR J0901-4046 is not an Isolated White Dwarf Pulsar
Maxim Lyutikov, Mukremin Kilic, Alexander Wolszczan +1
We report the {\it Chandra} non-detection of PSR J09014046, a seconds long-period radio transient (LPT). For a distance of 467 pc, the upper limit on X-ray luminosity…
Fast Radio Bursts produced during collapse of macroscopic X-mode in magnetized pair plasma
Maxim Lyutikov
We demonstrate that in highly magnetized pair plasma nonlinear long-wavelength X-modes experience wave collapse/breaking, whereby the wave undergoes severe spatial steepening, driv…
Tearing of charged current layers
Maxim Lyutikov
Astrophysical current layers, e.g., in pulsar winds, can be electrically charged, while the plasma is charge-symmetric, . Using PIC simulations, we investigate dynamics and…