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20052023
most citedThe microphysics of collisionless shock waves

272 citations · 984 across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.plasm-ph2023★ 3 cited

Density jump as a function of magnetic field strength for perpendicular collisionless shocks with anisotropic upstream pressure

Antoine Bret

Shock waves are common in astrophysical environments. On many occasions, they are collisionless, which means they occur in settings where the mean free path is much larger than the…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 4 cited

Density jump as a function of magnetic field strength for parallel collisionless shocks with anisotropic upstream pressure

Antoine Bret

The properties of collisionless shocks are frequently assessed in the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model. Yet, in a collisionless plasma, an ambient magnetic field can sustain a stab…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 4 cited

Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions

Antoine Bret, Ramesh Narayan

Shockwaves in plasma are usually dealt with using Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Yet, MHD entails the assumption of a short mean free path, which is not fulfilled in a collisionless p…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 6 cited

Density jump as a function of magnetic field for switch-on collisionless shocks in pair plasmas

Antoine Bret, Ramesh Narayan

The properties of collisionless shocks, like the density jump, are usually derived from magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), where isotropic pressures are assumed. Yet, in a collisionless p…

physics.plasm-ph2022

Quantum electrodynamic effects on counter-streaming instabilities in the whole \textbf{k} space

Antoine Bret

In a recent work [Bret, EPL \textbf{135} (2021) 35001], quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects were evaluated for the two-stream instability. It pertains to the growth of perturbatio…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 1 cited

Building a weak shockwave from linear modes

Antoine Bret, Ramesh Narayan

In shockwave theory, the density, velocity and pressure jumps are derived from the conservation equations. Here, we address the physics of a weak shock the other way around. We fir…