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Fireball as the result of self-organization of an ensemble of diamagnetic electron-ion nanoparticles in molecular gas

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The conditions for dissipative self-organization of a fireball (FB) is a molecular gas by means of a regular correction of an elastic collision of water and nitrogen molecules by the field of a coherent bi-harmonic light wave (BLW) are presented. The BWL field is generated due to conversion of energy of a linear lightning discharge into light energy. A FB consists of two components: an ensemble of optically active diamagnetic electron-ion nanoparticles and a standing wave of elliptical polarization (SWEP). It is shown that the FB lifetime depends on the energies accumulated by nanoparticles and the SWEP field and on the stability of self-oscillations of the energy between nanoparticles and SWEP.

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  1. Zuev Institute for Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pl. Akademika Zueva 1, Tomsk, 634021, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Lopasov, 2011, published in Prikladnaya Fizika, 2011, No. 2, pp. 27–32.

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Lopasov, V.P. Fireball as the result of self-organization of an ensemble of diamagnetic electron-ion nanoparticles in molecular gas. Plasma Phys. Rep. 37, 1099–1103 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X11120063

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