On the nature of the plasma equilibrium

Details On the nature of the plasma equilibrium On the nature of the plasma equilibrium

2008-03-04

arxiv.org/abs/0803.0513v2

EPL 84 (2008) pp.20011-1-5 (under a different title)

Physics

Plasma Physics

Error corrected, extensive rewrite, 4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/84/20011

We calculate the energy of a homogeneous one component plasma and find that the energy is lower for correlated motions of the particles as compared to uncorrelated motion. Our starting point is the conserved approximately relativistic (Darwin) energy for a system of electromagnetically interacting particles that arises from the neglect of radiation. For the idealized model of a homogeneous one component plasma the energy only depends on the particle canonical momenta and the vector potential. The vector potential is then calculated in terms of the canonical momenta using recent theoretical advances and the plasma Hamiltonian is obtained. The result can be understood either as due to the energy lowering caused by the attraction of parallel currents or, alternatively, as due to the inductive inertia associated with the flow of net current.

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