Nonlinear Evolution of Electrostatic Wave Packet in a Plasma
- 20 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 38 (25) , 1480-1483
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.38.1480
Abstract
Measurements are made on spatial evolutions of a large-amplitude wave packet of electron plasma wave in a collisionless plasma. There appears a new wave emitted in front of the wave packet, which results in a spreading of the wave packet along the propagation direction.Keywords
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