Relativistic effects on electron plasma waves
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 16 (6) , 2470-2472
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.16.2470
Abstract
The effect of relativistic electron-mass variation on the propagation of electron plasma waves is considered. Including thermal dispersive effects, a variational principle is used to find the possible final states of the linearly unstable modes. It is shown that dispersion will limit the nonlinear steepening predicted by the coldfluid approach.Keywords
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