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List of plasma physics articles

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This is a list of plasma physics topics. [1]

182 relations: Alfvén wave, Anisothermal plasma, Appleton–Hartree equation, Astron (fusion reactor), Astrophysical jet, Astrophysical plasma, Atmospheric pressure discharge, Atmospheric-pressure plasma, Aurora, Beam-powered propulsion, Beta (plasma physics), Birkeland current, Blazar, Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem, Boltzmann relation, Bremsstrahlung, Capacitively coupled plasma, Cascaded Arc Plasma Source, Collisionality, Cooling flow, Corona discharge, Corona treatment, Coulomb collision, Coulomb explosion, Crookes tube, Current sheet, Debye sheath, Degree of ionization, Dense plasma focus, Direct-current discharge, Directed-energy weapon, Double layer (plasma physics), Ecton (physics), Electrodeless plasma thruster, Electrolaser, Electromagnetic electron wave, Electron avalanche, Electron wake, Electron-cloud effect, Energetic neutral atom, Extreme ultraviolet, Far-infrared laser, Farley–Buneman instability, Field-reversed configuration, Fisher's equation, Fusion ignition, Fusor, Gas-filled tube, Geomagnetic storm, Glow discharge, ..., Gridded ion thruster, Guiding center, GYRO, Gyrokinetic ElectroMagnetic, Gyrokinetics, Hall effect, Heliospheric current sheet, Helmet streamer, High-power impulse magnetron sputtering, Hiss (electromagnetic), IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, IGNITOR, IMAGE, Index of physics articles (L), Induction plasma, Inductively coupled plasma, Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy, Inertial confinement fusion, Inertial electrostatic confinement, Inertial fusion power plant, Interplanetary magnetic field, Interplanetary medium, Interplanetary scintillation, Interstellar medium, Intracluster medium, Ion acoustic wave, Ion laser, Ion wind, Ionized-air glow, Ionosphere, Landau damping, Langmuir probe, Large Plasma Device, Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Lawson criterion, Levitated dipole, Lightcraft, Lower hybrid oscillation, MagBeam, Magnetic confinement fusion, Magnetic mirror, Magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer, Magnetic reconnection, Magnetic sail, Magnetic tension force, Magnetic weapon, Magnetized target fusion, Magnetohydrodynamic converter, Magnetohydrodynamic drive, Magnetohydrodynamic generator, Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics, Magnetopause, Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, MAGPIE, MARAUDER, Microplasma, National Compact Stellarator Experiment, Neutral beam injection, Nuclear fusion, Pinch (plasma physics), Plasma (physics), Plasma acceleration, Plasma Acoustic Shield System, Plasma activation, Plasma actuator, Plasma afterglow, Plasma antenna, Plasma channel, Plasma contactor, Plasma containment, Plasma cutting, Plasma deep drilling technology, Plasma display, Plasma etching, Plasma gasification, Plasma globe, Plasma lamp, Plasma modeling, Plasma oscillation, Plasma parameters, Plasma processing, Plasma propulsion engine, Plasma receiver, Plasma scaling, Plasma shaping, Plasma stability, Plasma stealth, Plasma torch, Plasma weapon, Plasma window, Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, Plasma-immersion ion implantation, Plasmasphere, Plasmoid, Plasmon, Polywell, Propulsive fluid accumulator, Pulsed energy projectile, Q-machine, Quark–gluon plasma, Raygun, Reaction engine, Relativistic beaming, Relativistic particle, Relativistic plasma, Remote plasma, Reversed-Field eXperiment, Runaway breakdown, Saha ionization equation, Self-focusing, Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics), Solar flare, Solar wind, Spacequake, Spark plasma sintering, Spaser, Spheromak, St. Elmo's fire, Stellarator, Surface plasmon, Tokamak, Two-dimensional point vortex gas, Upper hybrid oscillation, Vacuum arc, Van Allen radiation belt, Vlasov equation, VSim, Warm dense matter, Waves in plasmas, Z Pulsed Power Facility, Zonal flow (plasma). Expand index (132 more) »

Alfvén wave

In plasma physics, an Alfvén wave, named after Hannes Alfvén, is a type of magnetohydrodynamic wave in which ions oscillate in response to a restoring force provided by an effective tension on the magnetic field lines.

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Anisothermal plasma

An Anisothermal plasma is a plasma which thermal state can be approximated by more than one temperature for the different degrees of freedom of the plasma.

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Appleton–Hartree equation

The Appleton–Hartree equation, sometimes also referred to as the Appleton–Lassen equation is a mathematical expression that describes the refractive index for electromagnetic wave propagation in a cold magnetized plasma.

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Astron (fusion reactor)

The Astron is a type of fusion power device pioneered by Nicholas Christofilos and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the 1960s and 70s.

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Astrophysical jet

An astrophysical jet is an astronomical phenomenon where outflows of ionised matter are emitted as an extended beam along the axis of rotation.

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Astrophysical plasma

An astrophysical plasma is a plasma (highly ionized gas) that occurs beyond the solar system.

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Atmospheric pressure discharge

An atmospheric pressure discharge is an electrical discharge in air at atmospheric pressure.

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Atmospheric-pressure plasma

Atmospheric-pressure plasma (or AP plasma or normal pressure plasma) is a plasma in which the pressure approximately matches that of the surrounding atmosphere – the so-called normal pressure.

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Aurora

An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

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Beam-powered propulsion

Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy beamed to the spacecraft from a remote power plant to provide energy.

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Beta (plasma physics)

The beta of a plasma, symbolized by β, is the ratio of the plasma pressure (p.

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Birkeland current

A Birkeland current is a set of currents that flow along geomagnetic field lines connecting the Earth’s magnetosphere to the Earth's high latitude ionosphere.

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Blazar

A blazar is a very compact quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) associated with a presumed supermassive black hole at the center of an active, giant elliptical galaxy.

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Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem

The Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem states that when statistical mechanics and classical mechanics are applied consistently, the thermal average of the magnetization is always zero.

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Boltzmann relation

In a plasma, the Boltzmann relation describes the number density of an isothermal charged particle fluid when the thermal and the electrostatic forces acting on the fluid have reached equilibrium.

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Bremsstrahlung

Bremsstrahlung, from bremsen "to brake" and Strahlung "radiation"; i.e., "braking radiation" or "deceleration radiation", is electromagnetic radiation produced by the deceleration of a charged particle when deflected by another charged particle, typically an electron by an atomic nucleus.

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Capacitively coupled plasma

A capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) is one of the most common types of industrial plasma sources.

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Cascaded Arc Plasma Source

The cascaded arc is a wall-stabilized thermal electric arc discharge that produces a high density, low temperature plasma.

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Collisionality

In plasma physics of tokamaks, collisionality is a dimensionless parameter which expresses the ratio of the electron-ion collision frequency to the banana orbit frequency.

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Cooling flow

A cooling flow occurs according to the theory that the intracluster medium (ICM) in the centres of galaxy clusters should be rapidly cooling at the rate of tens to thousands of solar masses per year.

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Corona discharge

A corona discharge is an electrical discharge brought on by the ionization of a fluid such as air surrounding a conductor that is electrically charged.

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Corona treatment

Corona treatment (sometimes referred to as air plasma) is a surface modification technique that uses a low temperature corona discharge plasma to impart changes in the properties of a surface.

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Coulomb collision

A Coulomb collision is a binary elastic collision between two charged particles interacting through their own electric field.

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Coulomb explosion

Coulomb explosion is a mechanism for coupling electronic excitation energy from intense electromagnetic fields into the atomic motion.

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Crookes tube

A Crookes tube (also Crookes–Hittorf tube) is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869-1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered.

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Current sheet

A current sheet is an electric current that is confined to a surface, rather than being spread through a volume of space.

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Debye sheath

The Debye sheath (also electrostatic sheath) is a layer in a plasma which has a greater density of positive ions, and hence an overall excess positive charge, that balances an opposite negative charge on the surface of a material with which it is in contact.

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Degree of ionization

The degree of ionization (also known as ionization yield in the literature) refers to the proportion of neutral particles, such as those in a gas or aqueous solution, that are ionized to charged particles.

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Dense plasma focus

A dense plasma focus (DPF) is a type of plasma device originally developed as a fusion power device starting in the early 1960s.

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Direct-current discharge

A direct-current discharge is an electrical discharge, also known as plasma, sustained by a direct current (DC) through an ionized medium, e.g. a gas.

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Directed-energy weapon

A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon system that inflicts damage at a target by emission of highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves and particle beams.

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Double layer (plasma physics)

A double layer is a structure in a plasma consisting of two parallel layers of opposite electrical charge.

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Ecton (physics)

Ectons are explosive electron emissions observed as individual packets or avalanches of electrons, occurring as microexplosions at the cathode.

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Electrodeless plasma thruster

The electrodeless plasma thruster is a spacecraft propulsion engine commercialized under the acronym "E-IMPAcT" for "Electrodeless-Ionization Magnetized Ponderomotive Acceleration Thruster".

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Electrolaser

An electrolaser is a type of electroshock weapon that is also a directed-energy weapon.

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Electromagnetic electron wave

In plasma physics, an electromagnetic electron wave is a wave in a plasma which has a magnetic field component and in which primarily the electrons oscillate.

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Electron avalanche

An electron avalanche is a process in which a number of free electrons in a transmission medium are subjected to strong acceleration by an electric field and subsequently collide with other atoms of the medium, thereby ionizing them (impact ionization).

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Electron wake

Electron wake is the disturbance left after a high-energy charged particle passes through condensed matter or plasma.

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Electron-cloud effect

The electron-cloud effect is a phenomenon that occurs in particle accelerators and reduces the quality of the particle beam.

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Energetic neutral atom

Energetic neutral atom (ENA) imaging, often described as "seeing with atoms", is a technology used to create global images of otherwise invisible phenomena in the magnetospheres of planets and throughout the heliosphere, even to its outer boundary.

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Extreme ultraviolet

Extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV or XUV) or high-energy ultraviolet radiation is electromagnetic radiation in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum spanning wavelengths from 124 nm down to 10 nm, and therefore (by the Planck–Einstein equation) having photons with energies from 10 eV up to 124 eV (corresponding to 124 nm to 10 nm respectively).

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Far-infrared laser

Far-infrared laser or terahertz laser (FIR laser, THz laser) is a laser with output wavelength in between 30-1000 µm (frequency 0.3-10 THz), in the far infrared or terahertz frequency band of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Farley–Buneman instability

The Farley–Buneman instability, or FB instability, is a microscopic plasma instability named after Donald T. Farley and Oscar Buneman.

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Field-reversed configuration

A field-reversed configuration (FRC) is a device developed for magnetic confinement fusion research that confines a plasma on closed magnetic field lines without a central penetration.

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Fisher's equation

In mathematics, Fisher's equation (named after statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher; also known as Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation—named after Andrey Kolmogorov, Ivan Petrovsky, and N. Piskunov—or KPP equation or Fisher–KPP equation) is the partial differential equation.

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Fusion ignition

Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining.

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Fusor

A fusor is a device that uses an electric field to heat ions to conditions suitable for nuclear fusion.

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Gas-filled tube

A gas-filled tube, also known as a discharge tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating, temperature-resistant envelope.

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Geomagnetic storm

A geomagnetic storm (commonly referred to as a solar storm) is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave and/or cloud of magnetic field that interacts with the Earth's magnetic field.

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Glow discharge

A glow discharge is a plasma formed by the passage of electric current through a gas.

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Gridded ion thruster

The gridded ion thruster is a common design for ion thrusters, a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion running on electrical power.

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Guiding center

In physics, the motion of an electrically charged particle such as an electron or ion in a plasma in a magnetic field can be treated as the superposition of a relatively fast circular motion around a point called the guiding center and a relatively slow drift of this point.

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GYRO

GYRO is a computational plasma physics code developed and maintained at General Atomics.

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Gyrokinetic ElectroMagnetic

GEM is short for Gyrokinetic ElectroMagnetic.

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Gyrokinetics

Gyrokinetics is a theoretical framework to study plasma behavior on perpendicular spatial scales comparable to the gyroradius and frequencies much lower than the particle cyclotron frequencies.

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Hall effect

The Hall effect is the production of a voltage difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor, transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current.

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Heliospheric current sheet

The heliospheric current sheet is the surface within the Solar System where the polarity of the Sun's magnetic field changes from north to south.

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Helmet streamer

Helmet streamers are bright loop-like structures which develop over active regions on the sun.

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High-power impulse magnetron sputtering

High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS or HiPIMS, also known as high-power pulsed magnetron sputtering, HPPMS) is a method for physical vapor deposition of thin films which is based on magnetron sputter deposition.

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Hiss (electromagnetic)

Electromagnetic hiss is a naturally occurring Extremely Low Frequency/Very Low Frequency electromagnetic wave (i.e., 300 Hz – 10 kHz) that is generated in the plasma of either the Earth's ionosphere or magnetosphere.

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IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) is a transnational group of about 3000 professional engineers and scientists.

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IGNITOR

IGNITOR is the Italian name for a nuclear research project of magnetic confinement fusion, developed by ENEA Laboratories in Frascati.

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IMAGE

IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is a NASA Medium Explorers mission that studied the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind.

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Index of physics articles (L)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Induction plasma

The 1960s were the incipient period of thermal plasma technology, spurred by the needs of aerospace programs.

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Inductively coupled plasma

An inductively coupled plasma (ICP) or transformer coupled plasma (TCP) is a type of plasma source in which the energy is supplied by electric currents which are produced by electromagnetic induction, that is, by time-varying magnetic fields.

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Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy

Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES), also referred to as inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), is an analytical technique used for the detection of chemical elements.

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Inertial confinement fusion

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a type of fusion energy research that attempts to initiate nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium.

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Inertial electrostatic confinement

Inertial electrostatic confinement is a branch of fusion research that uses an electric field to elevate a plasma to fusion conditions.

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Inertial fusion power plant

An inertial fusion power plant is intended to produce electric power by use of inertial confinement fusion techniques on an industrial scale.

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Interplanetary magnetic field

The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), now more commonly referred to as the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF), is the component of the solar magnetic field which is dragged out from the solar corona by the solar wind flow to fill the Solar System.

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Interplanetary medium

The interplanetary medium is the material which fills the Solar System, and through which all the larger Solar System bodies, such as planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets, move.

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Interplanetary scintillation

In astronomy, interplanetary scintillation refers to random fluctuations in the intensity of radio waves of celestial origin, on the timescale of a few seconds.

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Interstellar medium

In astronomy, the interstellar medium (ISM) is the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy.

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Intracluster medium

In astronomy, the intracluster medium (ICM) is the superheated plasma that permeates a galaxy cluster.

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Ion acoustic wave

In plasma physics, an ion acoustic wave is one type of longitudinal oscillation of the ions and electrons in a plasma, much like acoustic waves traveling in neutral gas.

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Ion laser

An ion laser is a gas laser that uses an ionized gas as its lasing medium.

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Ion wind

Ion wind, ionic wind, coronal wind or electric wind describe the airflow induced by electrostatic forces linked to corona discharge arising at the tips of some sharp conductors (such as points or blades) subjected to high voltage relative to ground.

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Ionized-air glow

Ionized-air glow is the fluorescent emission of characteristic blue–purple–violet light, of color called electric blue, by air subjected to an energy flux.

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Ionosphere

The ionosphere is the ionized part of Earth's upper atmosphere, from about to altitude, a region that includes the thermosphere and parts of the mesosphere and exosphere.

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Landau damping

In physics, Landau damping, named after its discoverer,Landau, L. "On the vibration of the electronic plasma".

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Langmuir probe

A Langmuir probe is a device used to determine the electron temperature, electron density, and electric potential of a plasma.

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Large Plasma Device

The Large Plasma Device is an experimental physics device at UCLA.

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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy which uses a highly energetic laser pulse as the excitation source.

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Lawson criterion

In nuclear fusion research, the Lawson criterion, first derived on fusion reactors (initially classified) by John D. Lawson in 1955 and published in 1957, is an general system measure that defines the conditions needed for a fusion reactor to reach ignition, that is, that the heating of the plasma by the products of the fusion reactions is sufficient to maintain the temperature of the plasma against all losses without external power input.

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Levitated dipole

A levitated dipole is a type of nuclear fusion reactor design using a superconducting torus which is magnetically levitated inside the reactor chamber.

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Lightcraft

The Lightcraft is a space- or air-vehicle driven by beam-powered propulsion, the energy source powering the craft being external.

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Lower hybrid oscillation

In plasma physics, a lower hybrid oscillation is a longitudinal oscillation of ions and electrons in a magnetized plasma.

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MagBeam

MagBeam is the name given to an ion propulsion system for space travel initially proposed by Professor Robert Winglee of the Earth and Space Sciences Department at the University of Washington for the October 2004 meeting of the NIAC.

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Magnetic confinement fusion

Magnetic confinement fusion is an approach to generate thermonuclear fusion power that uses magnetic fields to confine the hot fusion fuel in the form of a plasma.

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Magnetic mirror

A magnetic mirror, known as a magnetic trap in Russia, is a type of magnetic confinement device used in fusion power to trap high temperature plasma using magnetic fields.

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Magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer

Magnetic Proton Recoil neutron spectrometer is a large high-resolution neutron spectrometer installed at JET.

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Magnetic reconnection

Magnetic reconnection is a physical process in highly conducting plasmas in which the magnetic topology is rearranged and magnetic energy is converted to kinetic energy, thermal energy, and particle acceleration.

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Magnetic sail

A magnetic sail or magsail is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion which would use a static magnetic field to deflect charged particles radiated by the Sun as a plasma wind, and thus impart momentum to accelerate the spacecraft.

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Magnetic tension force

The magnetic tension force is a restoring force (SI unit: Pa·m−1) that acts to straighten bent magnetic field lines.

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Magnetic weapon

A magnetic weapon is one that uses magnetic fields to accelerate or stop projectiles, or to focus charged particle beams.

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Magnetized target fusion

Magnetized target fusion (MTF) is a fusion power concept that combines features of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF).

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Magnetohydrodynamic converter

A magnetohydrodynamic converter (MHD converter) is an electromagnetic machine with no moving parts involving magnetohydrodynamics, the study of the kinetics of electrically conductive fluids (liquid or ionized gas) in the presence of electromagnetic fields. Such converters act on the fluid using the Lorentz force to operate in two possible ways: either as an electric generator called an MHD generator, extracting energy from a fluid in motion; or as an electric motor called an MHD accelerator or magnetohydrodynamic drive, putting a fluid in motion by injecting energy. MHD converters are indeed reversible, like many electromagnetic devices. Michael Faraday first attempted to test an MHD converter in 1832. MHD converters involving plasmas were highly studied in the 1960s and 1970s, with many government funding and dedicated international conferences. The research almost stopped after it was considered the electrothermal instability would severely limit the efficiency of such converters when intense magnetic fields are used, although solutions may exist. Crossed-field magnetohydrodynamic converters (linear Faraday type with segmented electrodes) A: MHD generator. B: MHD accelerator.

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Magnetohydrodynamic drive

A magnetohydrodynamic drive or MHD accelerator is a method for propelling vehicles using only electric and magnetic fields with no moving parts, accelerating an electrically conductive propellant (liquid or gas) with magnetohydrodynamics.

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Magnetohydrodynamic generator

A magnetohydrodynamic generator (MHD generator) is a magnetohydrodynamic converter that transforms thermal energy and kinetic energy into electricity.

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Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence concerns the chaotic regimes of magnetofluid flow at high Reynolds number.

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Magnetohydrodynamics

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD; also magneto-fluid dynamics or hydro­magnetics) is the study of the magnetic properties of electrically conducting fluids.

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Magnetopause

The magnetopause is the abrupt boundary between a magnetosphere and the surrounding plasma.

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Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster

A magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (MPDT) is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion which uses the Lorentz force (the force on a charged particle by an electromagnetic field) to generate thrust.

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MAGPIE

MAGPIE (Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments) is a pulsed power generator based at Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

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MARAUDER

MARAUDER (Magnetically accelerated ring to achieve ultrahigh directed energy and radiation) is, or was, a United States Air Force Research Laboratory project concerning the development of a coaxial plasma railgun.

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Microplasma

A microplasma is a plasma of small dimensions, ranging from tens to thousands of micrometers.

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National Compact Stellarator Experiment

The National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) was a magnetic fusion energy experiment based on the stellarator design being constructed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

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Neutral beam injection

Neutral beam injection (NBI) is one method used to heat plasma inside a fusion device consisting in a beam of high-energy neutral particles that can enter the magnetic confinement field.

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Nuclear fusion

In nuclear physics, nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come close enough to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).

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Pinch (plasma physics)

A pinch is the compression of an electrically conducting filament by magnetic forces.

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Plasma (physics)

Plasma (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon, on Perseus) is one of the four fundamental states of matter, and was first described by chemist Irving Langmuir in the 1920s.

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Plasma acceleration

Plasma acceleration is a technique for accelerating charged particles, such as electrons, positrons, and ions, using the electric field associated with electron plasma wave or other high-gradient plasma structures (like shock and sheath fields).

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Plasma Acoustic Shield System

The Plasma Acoustic Shield System, or PASS, is in the process of being developed by Stellar Photonics.

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Plasma activation

Plasma activation (or plasma functionalization) is a method of surface modification employing plasma processing, which improves surface adhesion properties of many materials including metals, glass, ceramics, a broad range of polymers and textiles and even natural materials such as wood and seeds.

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Plasma actuator

Plasma actuators are a type of actuator currently being developed for aerodynamic flow control.

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Plasma afterglow

A plasma afterglow (also afterglow) is the radiation emitted from a plasma after the source of ionization is removed.

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Plasma antenna

A plasma antenna is a type of radio antenna currently in development in which plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional antenna.

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Plasma channel

A plasma channel is a conductive channel of plasma.

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Plasma contactor

Plasma contactors are devices used on spacecraft in order to prevent accumulation of electrostatic charge through the expulsion of plasma (often Xenon).

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Plasma containment

In nuclear physics, plasma containment refers to the act of maintaining a plasma in a discrete volume.

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Plasma cutting

Plasma cutting is a process that cuts through electrically conductive materials by means of an accelerated jet of hot plasma.

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Plasma deep drilling technology

Plasma deep drilling technology is one of several different variants of recently explored new drilling technologies which would be able to substitute conventional, contact-based rotary systems.

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Plasma display

A plasma display panel (PDP) is a type of flat panel display common to large TV displays or larger.

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Plasma etching

Plasma etching is a form of plasma processing used to fabricate integrated circuits.

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Plasma gasification

Plasma gasification is an extreme thermal process using plasma which converts organic matter into a syngas (synthesis gas) which is primarily made up of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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Plasma globe

A plasma globe or plasma lamp (also called plasma ball, dome, sphere, tube or orb, depending on shape) is (usually) a clear glass sphere filled with a mixture of various noble gases with a high-voltage electrode in the center of the sphere.

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Plasma lamp

Plasma lamps are a type of gas discharge lamp energized by radio frequency (RF) power.

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Plasma modeling

Plasma Modeling refers to solving equations of motion that describe the state of a plasma.

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Plasma oscillation

Plasma oscillations, also known as Langmuir waves (after Irving Langmuir), are rapid oscillations of the electron density in conducting media such as plasmas or metals in the ultraviolet region.

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Plasma parameters

Plasma parameters define various characteristics of a plasma, an electrically conductive collection of charged particles that responds collectively to electromagnetic forces.

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Plasma processing

Plasma processing is a plasma-based material processing technology that aims at modifying the chemical and physical properties of a surface.

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Plasma propulsion engine

A plasma propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma.

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Plasma receiver

A plasma receiver is an instrument capable of detecting the vibrations in outer space plasma.

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Plasma scaling

The parameters of plasmas, including their spatial and temporal extent, vary by many orders of magnitude.

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Plasma shaping

Magnetically confined fusion plasmas such as those generated in tokamaks and stellarators are characterized by a typical shape.

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Plasma stability

An important field of plasma physics is the stability of a plasma.

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Plasma stealth

Plasma stealth is a proposed process to use ionized gas (plasma) to reduce the radar cross-section (RCS) of an aircraft.

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Plasma torch

A plasma torch (also known as a plasma arc, plasma gun, or plasma cutter, plasmatron) is a device for generating a directed flow of plasma.

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Plasma weapon

When discussing weapons in science fiction, a plasma weapon is a type of raygun that fires a stream, bolt(s), pulse or toroid of plasma (i.e. very hot, very energetic excited matter).

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Plasma window

The plasma window (not to be confused with a plasma shield) is a technology that fills a volume of space with plasma confined by a magnetic field.

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Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is a chemical vapor deposition process used to deposit thin films from a gas state (vapor) to a solid state on a substrate.

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Plasma-immersion ion implantation

Plasma-immersion ion implantation (PIII) or pulsed-plasma doping (pulsed PIII) is a surface modification technique of extracting the accelerated ions from the plasma by applying a high voltage pulsed DC or pure DC power supply and targeting them into a suitable substrate or electrode with a semiconductor wafer placed over it, so as to implant it with suitable dopants.

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Plasmasphere

The plasmasphere, or inner magnetosphere, is a region of the Earth's magnetosphere consisting of low energy (cool) plasma.

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Plasmoid

A plasmoid is a coherent structure of plasma and magnetic fields.

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Plasmon

In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation.

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Polywell

The polywell is a type of nuclear fusion reactor that uses an electric field to heat ions to fusion conditions.

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Propulsive fluid accumulator

A Propulsive Fluid Accumulator is an artificial Earth satellite which collects and stores oxygen and other atmospheric gases for in-situ refuelling of high-thrust rockets.

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Pulsed energy projectile

Pulsed energy projectile or PEP is a technology of non-lethal weaponry currently under development by the U.S. military.

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Q-machine

A Q-machine is a device that is used in experimental plasma physics.

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Quark–gluon plasma

A quark–gluon plasma (QGP) or quark soup is a state of matter in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which exists at extremely high temperature and/or density.

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Raygun

A raygun is a science fiction particle-beam weapon that fires what is usually destructive energy.

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Reaction engine

A reaction engine is an engine or motor that produces thrust by expelling reaction mass, in accordance with Newton's third law of motion.

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Relativistic beaming

Relativistic beaming (also known as Doppler beaming, Doppler boosting, or the headlight effect) is the process by which relativistic effects modify the apparent luminosity of emitting matter that is moving at speeds close to the speed of light.

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Relativistic particle

A relativistic particle is a particle which moves with a relativistic speed; that is, a speed comparable to the speed of light.

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Relativistic plasma

Relativistic plasmas in physics are plasmas for which relativistic corrections to a particle's mass and velocity are important.

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Remote plasma

A remote plasma (also downstream plasma or afterglow plasma) is a plasma processing method in which the plasma and material interaction occurs at a location remote from the plasma in the plasma afterglow.

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Reversed-Field eXperiment

The Reversed-Field eXperiment (RFX) is the largest reversed field pinch device presently in operation, situated in Padua, Italy.

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Runaway breakdown

Runaway breakdown is a theory of lightning initiation proposed by Alex Gurevich in 1992.

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Saha ionization equation

The Saha ionization equation, also known as the Saha–Langmuir equation, is an expression that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to the temperature and pressure.

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Self-focusing

Self-focusing is a non-linear optical process induced by the change in refractive index of materials exposed to intense electromagnetic radiation.

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Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics)

Shocks and discontinuities are transition layers where the plasma properties change from one equilibrium state to another.

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Solar flare

A solar flare is a sudden flash of increased Sun's brightness, usually observed near its surface.

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Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona.

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Spacequake

In astrophysics, a spacequake is a temblor in the Earth's magnetic field.

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Spark plasma sintering

Spark plasma sintering (SPS), also known as field assisted sintering technique (FAST) or pulsed electric current sintering (PECS), is a sintering technique.

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Spaser

A spaser or plasmonic laser is a type of laser which aims to confine light at a subwavelength scale far below Rayleigh's diffraction limit of light, by storing some of the light energy in electron oscillations called surface plasmon polaritons.

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Spheromak

A spheromak is an arrangement of plasma formed into a toroidal shape similar to a smoke ring.

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St. Elmo's fire

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Stellarator

A stellarator is a device used to confine hot plasma with magnetic fields in order to sustain a controlled nuclear fusion reaction.

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Surface plasmon

Surface plasmons (SPs) are coherent delocalized electron oscillations that exist at the interface between any two materials where the real part of the dielectric function changes sign across the interface (e.g. a metal-dielectric interface, such as a metal sheet in air).

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Tokamak

A tokamak (Токамáк) is a device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine a hot plasma in the shape of a torus.

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Two-dimensional point vortex gas

The two-dimensional point vortex gas is a discrete particle model used to study turbulence in two-dimensional ideal fluids.

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Upper hybrid oscillation

In plasma physics, an upper hybrid oscillation is a mode of oscillation of a magnetized plasma.

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Vacuum arc

A vacuum arc can arise when the surfaces of metal electrodes in contact with a good vacuum begin to emit electrons either through heating (thermionic emission) or in an electric field that is sufficient to cause field electron emission.

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Van Allen radiation belt

A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field.

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Vlasov equation

The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function of plasma consisting of charged particles with long-range interaction, e.g. Coulomb.

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VSim

VSim is a cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) computational framework for multiphysics, including electrodynamics in the presence of metallic and dielectric shapes as well as with or without self-consistent charged particles and fluids.

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Warm dense matter

Warm dense matter, abbreviated WDM, can refer to either equilibrium or non-equilibrium states of matter in a (loosely defined) regime of temperature and density between condensed matter and hot plasma.

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Waves in plasmas

In plasma physics, waves in plasmas are an interconnected set of particles and fields which propagates in a periodically repeating fashion.

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Z Pulsed Power Facility

The Z Pulsed Power Facility, informally known as the Z machine, is the largest high frequency electromagnetic wave generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure.

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Zonal flow (plasma)

In toroidally confined fusion plasma experiments the term zonal flow means a plasma flow within a magnetic surface primarily in the poloidal direction.

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