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Plane wave diffraction by a wedge in a magnetoactive plasma under mixed boundary conditions and a “thermodynamic paradox”

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A rigorous solution is obtained for the problem of plane electromagnetic wave diffraction by a wedge in a magnetoactive plasma. The external permanent magnetic field is applied along an edge; one of the wedge faces is electrically conductive while the other is magnetically conductive. If the primary wave is a surface wave being propagated along the electrically conductive face, then for a no-loss system a so-called “thermodynamic paradox” is possible. Conditions for occurrence of the paradox are in agreement with the plasma parameter domain in which the condition at the edge is spoiled.

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  1. V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk State University, USSR

    M. S. Bobrovnikov & V. V. Fisanov

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  1. M. S. Bobrovnikov
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 13–18, March, 1985.

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Bobrovnikov, M.S., Fisanov, V.V. Plane wave diffraction by a wedge in a magnetoactive plasma under mixed boundary conditions and a “thermodynamic paradox”. Soviet Physics Journal 28, 185–189 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895900

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