Dispersion properties of electrostatic oscillations in quantum plasmas

Physics – Plasma Physics

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9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Journal of Plasma Physics

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10.1017/S0022377809990316

We present a derivation of the dispersion relation for electrostatic oscillations (ESOs) in a zero temperature quantum plasma. In the latter, degenerate electrons are governed by the Wigner equation, while non-degenerate ions follow the classical fluid equations. The Poisson equation determines the electrostatic wave potential. We consider parameters ranging from semiconductor plasmas to metallic plasmas and electron densities of compressed matter such as in laser-compression schemes and dense astrophysical objects. Due to the wave diffraction caused by overlapping electron wave function due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in dense plasmas, we have possibility of Landau damping of the high-frequency electron plasma oscillations (EPOs) at large enough wavenumbers. The exact dispersion relations for the EPOs are solved numerically and compared to the ones obtained by using approximate formulas for the electron susceptibility in the high- and low-frequency cases.

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