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Investigation of the fundamental properties of a Coulombian plasma by the method of many-particle dynamics

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It is shown that a completely ionized, classical, Coulombian plasma, placed in an adiabatic enclosure, possesses a stationary state. At the same time, a plasma placed in a thermostat recombines through triple collisions, with a velocity satisfactorily accounted for by well-known theoretical results. The results obtained by numerical modeling have shown that, for a plasma placed in an adiabatic enclosure, the ergodic assumption is not valid. Various possible kinetic mechanisms, ensuring the existence of a stationary state of the adiabatically enclosed plasma, are considered.

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  1. Institute of General Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    S. A. Maiorov, A. N. Tkachev & S. I. Yakovlenko

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 3–34, November, 1991.

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Maiorov, S.A., Tkachev, A.N. & Yakovlenko, S.I. Investigation of the fundamental properties of a Coulombian plasma by the method of many-particle dynamics. Soviet Physics Journal 34, 951–976 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895472

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