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Suppression of the current instability by decay processes

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A study is made of the instability of lower hybrid waves in an isothermal magnetized current-carrying plasma. It is assumed that the dynamic suppression of the current instability is associated with the excitation of a quasi-monochromatic wave near the instability threshold and its subsequent decay into two strongly damped lower hybrid waves. It is shown that the decay process results in the onset of either a quasi-periodic or stochastic nonlinear stabilization regime involving a small number of modes. The anomalous resistance is estimated.

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  1. Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, 00-049, Poland

    B. Atamanyuk

  2. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142092, Russia

    A. S. Volokitin

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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 27, No. 7, 2001, pp. 637–646.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Atamanyuk, Volokitin.

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Atamanyuk, B., Volokitin, A.S. Suppression of the current instability by decay processes. Plasma Phys. Rep. 27, 598–607 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1385439

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