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Collective effects triggered by individuals effects in one-dimensional plasmas

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The relationship between individual and collective effects in a two-component plasma is investigated in the case of an unstable equilibrium given by a cold two-stream distribution. The full dynamics of this system is solved using an exact N-body code. As the graininess parameter is large, such a cold plasma should be dominated by individual effects. Indeed, during an initial phase much longer than the plasma period, ions and electrons simply oscillate around each other forming neutral ``molecules". Subsequently, however, the system switches to a regime where collective effects are important: the two-stream configuration becomes unstable and phase space structures appear. On a longer time scale, the streams are destroyed and the system evolves towards thermal equilibrium. The present results show that collective effects can emerge even in a plasma dominated by individual interactions, provided that the initial distribution is unstable.
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hal-00085731 , version 1 (13-07-2006)

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Jean-Louis Rouet, Manfredi Giovanni. Collective effects triggered by individuals effects in one-dimensional plasmas. 2005, pp.275 - 285, ⟨10.1080/00411450500274477⟩. ⟨hal-00085731⟩
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