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Collective modes in nonrelativistic electron-positron plasmas
Phys. Rev. E 47, 604 – Published 1 January, 1993
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.47.604
Abstract
The longitudinal and transverse collective modes in a nonrelativistic electron-positron plasma are studied in two cases: a static uniform magnetic field is present or absent. The dispersion relations for the longitudinal and transverse collective modes in the absence of a magnetic field and those for the longitudinal mode in the presence of a magnetic field (Bernstein mode) are found to be similar to those for the one-component electron plasma. The transverse modes in the presence of a magnetic field, on the other hand, are found to be quite different from the electron-ion plasma: The dispersion relations for the left- and right-circularly polarized waves propagating parallel to the magnetic field are found to be identical. In addition to the transverse plasma oscillations, the low-frequency Alfvén mode exists, while the whistler mode does not exist. For waves propagating perpendicular to the magnetic field, the extraordinary wave becomes a pure transverse mode. In the cold-plasma limit, there is only one resonance at the cyclotron frequency and one cutoff frequency for the extraordinary mode, in contrast to the electron-ion plasma, where there are two hybrid resonances and two cutoff frequencies.
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