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Stable localized electromagnetic pulses in asymmetric pair plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2010

V. I. BEREZHIANI ,
S. M. MAHAJAN  and
N. L. SHATASHVILI
V. I. BEREZHIANI
Affiliation:
Plasma Physics Department, Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Tbilisi 0177, Georgia (shatashvili@yahoo.com) Department of Physics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi 0128, Georgia
S. M. MAHAJAN
Affiliation:
Institute for Fusion Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tx 78712, USA
N. L. SHATASHVILI
Affiliation:
Plasma Physics Department, Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Tbilisi 0177, Georgia (shatashvili@yahoo.com) Department of Physics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi 0128, Georgia
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Abstract

It is shown that pair plasmas, through the new focusing–defocusing nonlinearity generated by an ‘asymmetry’ in initial temperatures of constituent species, can support multidimensional, stable, large-amplitude light bullets as well as bullets carrying vortices, i.e. spinning bullets.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 76 , Special Issue 3-4: In Honor of Professor Padma Kant Shukla on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday , August 2010 , pp. 467 - 476
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