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Anomalous Electrical Conductivity of Weakly‐Collisional, Magnetoactive Plasma Excited by the Lower‐Hybrid‐Drift Instability
Author(s) -
Belyi V. V.,
Meister C.V.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.2150290415
Subject(s) - physics , instability , plasma , two stream instability , collision frequency , excited state , atomic physics , lower hybrid oscillation , curvature , magnetic field , kinetic energy , mechanics , electromagnetic electron wave , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , geometry , mathematics
In this paper the kinetic theory for a weakly‐collisional plasma immersed in a static magnetic field with no curvature is considered. In the plasma an electrostatic flute ( kB = 0) instability is excited causing an anomalous wave‐particle collision frequency. In the special case of the lower‐hybrid‐drift instability a simple expression for this collision frequency is found containing the wave spectrum as a parameter.