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Partially transverse and partially longitudinal wave in non-uniform electron plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2014

Hamid Saleem*
Affiliation:
National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Email address for correspondence: saleemhpk@hotmail.com

Abstract

It is pointed out that in the slow time scale perturbations the displacement current is ignored but it does not imply that the electron density fluctuations vanish. The dispersion relation of the low-frequency electromagnetic wave described within the framework of electron magnetohydrodynamics (EMHD) is modified by taking into account the longitudinal effects. This wave can couple with plasma lower hybrid oscillations if ion dynamics is also considered. The low-frequency wave discussed here can have many applications in plasma transport and plasma opening switches.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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