A recently proposed paradigm for plasma turbulent transport dynamics, based on the concept of self-organized criticality (SOC), is extended to include other transport mechanisms existent in real plasmas. This extension might clarify the experimentally observed violation at fluctuation scales of the scale-invariance essential to the SOC model. It might also provide with new experimental tests th...

Action-angle representation of linear fluctuation in plasma is formally performed by taking the Lagrange-Hamilton theory as the basis and invoking the recent spectral technique [Hirota and Fukumoto, J. Math. Phys. 49 083101 (2008)], which is shown to be applicable equally to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system and the Vlasov-Maxwell system. This formalism leads to a natural definition of the w...

Within classical transport theory, an approach is presented to derive systematically effective collision terms and noise sources for effective kinetic equations of nonAbelian plasmas. This procedure amounts to the ‘integrating-out’ of fluctuations, and is applicable for inand out-of-equilibrium situations. When applied to a hot non-Abelian plasma close to equilibrium we recover the collision in...

When λT ≪ dT , where λT is the de Broglie wavelength and dT , the distance of closest approach of thermal electrons, a classical analysis of the energy of a plasma can be made. In all the classical analysis made until now, it was assumed that the frequency of the fluctuations ω ≪ T (kB = h̄ = 1). Using the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, we evaluate the energy of a plasma, allowing the frequenc...

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We discuss some aspects of a recently proposed semi-classical transport theory for QCD plasmas based on coloured point particles. This includes the derivation of effective transport equations for mean fields and fluctuations which relies on the Gibbs ensemble average. Correlators of fluctuations are interpreted as collision integrals for the effective Boltzmann equation. The approach yields a r...

A dusty plasma system containing Boltzmann-distributed electrons, non-thermal ions, and mobile charge fluctuating negative dust has been considered. The nonlinear propagation of the dust-acoustic (DA) waves in such a dusty plasma has been investigated by employing the reductive perturbation method. It has been found that the dust charge fluctuation is a source of dissipation, and is responsible...