Stability of the Critical Surface in Irradiated Plasma
- 21 April 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 34 (16) , 1008-1011
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.34.1008
Abstract
The linear and nonlinear evolution of an instability of one-dimensional filaments in plasma is investigated. The relevance of these results to two-dimensional breakup of the critical surface in laser-plasma interactions is pointed out.Keywords
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