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Area of Science:

  • Plasma Physics
  • Astrophysical Plasmas
  • Kinetic Theory

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  • Uniform plasmas with time-dependent currents exhibit complex behaviors.
  • Classical wave breaking and Landau damping are insufficient to explain certain plasma mode decays.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analytically and numerically investigate a uniform, oscillatory plasma equilibrium.
  • To identify and characterize a novel kinetic instability mechanism.

Main Methods:

  • Particle-in-cell simulations were employed.
  • The Vlasov equation was used to derive the dispersion relation for oscillating equilibrium distribution functions.

Main Results:

  • An infinite number of unstable kinetic modes were identified.
  • A kinetic mechanism for the decay of the null wave number mode was demonstrated.
  • Relativistic generalization shows growth rate scaling with Lorentz factor (γ_{T}^{-1/2}).

Conclusions:

  • The discovered instability provides a decay mechanism absent in classical theories.
  • The instability is less suppressed in relativistic flows compared to streaming instabilities.
  • This has implications for understanding inductive electric field oscillations in pulsar magnetospheres.