Probability Distribution for Fourier Components of the Electric Field in Weak Plasma Turbulence

8 July 1974

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 33 (2) , 73-75
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.33.73

Abstract

Probability distributions for Fourier components of the electric field, including joint distributions for different Fourier components and multiple-time distributions for the same component, are determined using two assumptions within the spirit of weak-turbulence theory. This statistical framework is then applied to the special case where the turbulence is dominated by the wave-particle interaction (i.e., the quasilinear case).

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