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20232025
most citedPhase-space entropy cascade and irreversibility of stochastic heating in nearly collisionless plasma turbulence

17 citations · 28 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Cosmic-ray transport in inhomogeneous media

Robert J. Ewart, Patrick Reichherzer, Shuzhe Ren +6

A theory of cosmic-ray transport in multi-phase diffusive media is developed, with the specific application to cases in which the cosmic-ray diffusion coefficient has large spatial…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Universal fluctuation spectrum of Vlasov-Poisson turbulence

Michael L. Nastac, Robert J. Ewart, James Juno +2

The thermal fluctuation spectrum of the electric field arising due to particle noise in a quiescent Vlasov-Poisson plasma was derived in the 1960s. Here, we derive the universal fl…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Gravitational Turbulence: the Small-Scale Limit of the Cold-Dark-Matter Power Spectrum

Yonadav Barry Ginat, Michael L. Nastac, Robert J. Ewart +3

The matter power spectrum, , is one of the fundamental quantities in the study of large-scale structure in cosmology. Here, we study its small-scale asymptotic limit, and sho…

physics.plasm-ph2024

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…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 17 cited

Phase-space entropy cascade and irreversibility of stochastic heating in nearly collisionless plasma turbulence

Michael L. Nastac, Robert J. Ewart, Wrick Sengupta +3

We consider a nearly collisionless plasma consisting of a species of `test particles' in 1D-1V, stirred by an externally imposed stochastic electric field. The mean effect on the p…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 1 cited

Non-thermal particle acceleration and power-law tails via relaxation to universal Lynden-Bell equilibria

Robert J. Ewart, Michael L. Nastac, Alexander A. Schekochihin

Collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas often exhibit non-thermal quasi-equilibria. Among these quasi-equilibria, distributions with power-law tails are ubiquitous. It is show…