Theoretical study on dust dynamics under cryogenic environment in a complex plasma is presented. Expansion process and cooling process of highly charged dust particles in a plasma containing background ultracold neutral particles are studied. The processes are described by kinetic theory with Fokker-Planck collision term of the interaction between neutral particles and dust particles. Time evol...

A connection between kinetic processes and intermittent turbulence is observed in the solar wind plasma using measurements from the Wind spacecraft at 1 A.U. In particular, kinetic effects such as temperature anisotropy and plasma heating are concentrated near coherent structures, such as current sheets, which are nonuniformly distributed in space. Furthermore, these coherent structures are pre...

It is pointed that approaches of traditional plasma theory cannot provide su cient reliability of nal theoretical deductions: The recipes of the theory yield equally rigorous justi cations to incompatible versions of the same physical phenomenon. This general property stems from two mutually intertwined reasons. First, the asymptotic convergence of intermediate iterative calculations: It suppos...

A one-dimensional kinetic theory of sheaths surrounding planar, electron-emitting surfaces is presented which accounts for plasma electrons lost to the surface and the temperature of the emitted electrons. It is shown that ratio of plasma electron temperature to emitted electron temperature significantly affects the sheath potential when the plasma electron temperature is within an order of mag...

In our previous paper [Phys. Plasmas 10, 4166 (2003)], we pointed out that the experimental results on the axial spontaneous magnetic field given by Najmudin et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 10, 215004 (2001)] can be explained by our kinetic model [Phys. Plasmas 8, 329 (2001)]. We also found that the azimuthal magnetic field Bθ given by our kinetic model is much weaker than the axial spontaneous magnet...

The self-consistent system of master equations describing the kinetics of a relativistic non-Abelian plasma, influenced by curvature interactions, is formulated. Non-minimal (curvature induced) coupling is shown to modify all the subsystems of the model: the gauge field equations, the gravity field equations and the kinetic equation for colored particles.

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