Colloquium : nonlinear collective interactions in quantum plasmas with degenerate electron fluids
By Padma Kant Shukla, Bengt Eliasson. 2010
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The current understanding of some important nonlinear collective processes in quantum plasmas with degenerate electrons is presented. After reviewing the basic properties of quantum plasmas, model equations (e.g., the quantum hydrodynamic and effective nonlinear Schrodinger-Poisson equations) are presented that describe collective nonlinear phenomena at nanoscales. The effects of the electron degeneracy arise due to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and Pauli’s exclusion principle for overlapping electron wave functions that result in tunneling of electrons and the electron degeneracy pressure. Since electrons are Fermions (spin-1/2 quantum particles), there also appears an electron spin current and a spin force acting on electrons due to the Bohr magnetization. The quantum effects produce new aspects of electrostatic (ES) and electromagnetic (EM) waves in a quantum plasma that are summarized in here. Furthermore, nonlinear features of ES ion waves and electron plasma oscillations are discussed, as well as the trapping of intense EM waves in quantum electron-density cavities. Specifically, simulation studies of the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger and Poisson equations reveal the formation and dynamics of localized ES structures at nanoscales in a quantum plasma. The effect of an external magnetic field on the plasma wave spectra and develop quantum magnetohydrodynamic equations are also discussed. The results are useful for understanding numerous collective phenomena in quantum plasmas, such as those in compact astrophysical objects (e.g., the cores of white dwarf stars and giant planets), as well as in plasma-assisted nanotechnology (e.g., quantum diodes, quantum free-electron lasers, nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics, metallic nanostructures, thin metal films, semiconductor quantum wells, and quantum dots, etc.), and in the next generation of intense laser-solid density plasma interaction experiments relevant for fast ignition in inertial confinement fusion schemes.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Quantum Hydrodynamics (2013, background): “Depending upon the type of nonlinearity, it is also capable to provide valuable information of the quasi-stationary structures and nonlinear interaction mechanisms of waves at various length scales [42].”
- Coupling functions:universal insights into dynamical interaction mechanisms (2017, background): “…non-dynamical, systems, spread over many different fields, including for example quantum plasma interactions (Marklund and Shukla, 2006; Shukla and Eliasson, 2011), solid state physics (Farid, 1997; Higuchi and Yasuhara, 2003; Zhang, 2013), interactions in semiconductor superlattices…”