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Plasma rotation driven by lasers with zero angular momentum
Camilla Willim, Thales Silva, Luís Oliveira Silva +1
We present a novel mechanism in which plasma electrons and ions optically acquire angular momentum during local pump depletion of an azimuthally polarized laser, despite the laser…
The electron cyclotron maser instability in laser-ionized plasmas
Thales Silva, Pablo J. Bilbao, Luis O. Silva
We show that circularly polarized lasers create plasmas with long-lasting ring-shaped weakly relativistic momentum distributions which, in the presence of an ambient magnetic field…
Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas
Pablo J. Bilbao, Thales Silva, Luis O. Silva
Relativistic plasmas in strong electromagnetic fields exhibit distinct properties compared to classical plasmas. In astrophysical environments, such as neutron stars, white dwarfs,…
Relaxation to universal non-Maxwellian equilibria in a collisionless plasma
Robert J. Ewart, Michael L. Nastac, Pablo J. Bilbao +3
Generic equilibria are derived for turbulent relaxing plasmas via an entropy-maximization procedure that accounts for the short-time conservation of certain collisionless invariant…
Weibel instability beyond bi-Maxwellian anisotropy
Thales Silva, Bedros Afeyan, Luis O. Silva
The shape of the anisotropic velocity distribution function, beyond the realm of strict Maxwellians can play a significant role in determining the evolution of the Weibel instabili…