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The collisionless nature of high-temperature plasmas

T. M. O’Neil and F. V. Coroniti

T. M. O’Neil

  • Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093

F. V. Coroniti

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024

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Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, S404 – Published 1 March, 1999

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S404

Abstract

Two phenomena that illustrate the collisionless nature of high temperature plasmas are Landau damping (or, more generally, the resonant wave-particle interaction) and collisionless shock waves. The first half of this paper traces Landau’s idea through the years as it is tested experimentally, extended nonlinearly, and applied. The second half traces the progress in understanding collisionless shocks in space and astrophysical plasmas.

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