Chapter 1 introduction to the ponderomotion processes and. Ponderomotive entanglement purification ponderomotive entanglement purification mancini, stefano 20010122 00. Unlimited ponderomotive force in a moving plasma with critical density is predicted. It causes the particle to move towards the area of the weaker field strength, rather than oscillating around an initial point as happens in a homogeneous field. A new fluidtheory derivation of the timedependent ponderomotive force is presented in the oscillationcentre representation. In this letter, we propose a theory that explains the chaotic regimes in loudspeakers reported in the literature, as a consequence of ponderomotive force resulted from the nonlinear coupling between two of those different time scales. The ponderomotive force is one of the basic nonlinear affects governing plasma behavior. Pdf comment on ponderomotive force due to neutrinos. Pdf ponderomotive force in the presence of electric fields. The general covariant derivation of the ponderomotive force is given. A nonuniform magnetoelectric coupling generates a magnetoelectric ponderomotive force that could be distinguished from the purely electric or magnetic ponderomotive. Finescale cavitation of ionospheric plasma caused by.
The ponderomotive force is independent of the sign of the charge, so both electrons and ions can be confined in the same potential well. Ponderomotive forces represent a useful analytical tool to describe plasma acceleration. Electron acceleration by ponderomotive force in magnetized. Nonlocal theory of relativistic ponderomotive force in. The naming convention used for the optical elds is shown on the right side of gure 2. Ponderomotive forces an overview sciencedirect topics.
The concept of a ponderomotive force due to the intrinsic spin of electrons is developed. But a next important step was the discovery by william thomson 1845later lord kelvinof how electrically uncharged bodies can be moved by electric fields with what is called a ponderomotive force. Since the ponderomotive force is a pressure force associated with electromagnetic. Air force contract f3361581k 1426p00005 and in part by nsf grant ecs 83430. They simplify in the limit of a stationary field pulses of long duration and a small gradient. Ponderomotive force disambiguation page providing links to topics that could be referred to by the same search term this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ponderomotive. Observations on the ponderomotive force strathprints. A new theory of ponderomotive forces on a vlasov plasma. However, for a single particle, the ponderomotive force is in the direction of the gradient.
A kinetic approach to the ponderomotive force, geophysical. The basic mechanism involves acceleration of electron by the axial gradient in the ponderomotive potential of the laser. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing. I have tried looking it up several times but can never find an answer that explains what is meant by this phrase. Osa general relativistic ponderomotive force in a moving. A kinetic approach to the ponderomotive force a kinetic approach to the ponderomotive force dasgupta, b tsurutani, b. We assume that the ponderomotive force arises due to the background density and magnetic. Oscillationcentre fluid theory of the ponderomotive force journal of. The contribution of magnetic monopoles to ponderomotive forces in plasmas. Spin contribution to the ponderomotive force in a plasma. We derive the force exerted in the background plasma by an arbitrary distribution of non interacting quasiparticles, corresponding to.
Interaction with single electrons plane wave orbits 52115. Ponderomotive force in the presence of electric fields. Degenerate fourwave mixing mediated by ponderomotive force driven plasma gratings. Nonlinear ponderomotive force by low frequency waves and. Pfcja8419 kinetic theory of the ponderomotive force near gyroresonance by vladimir b.
The ponderomotive force in several special cases is discussed and compared with the previous results. We show that this force can be given as a series of inhomogeneity indicators of the. Ponderomotive definition of ponderomotive by merriamwebster. Ponderomotive force 489 and je70, the amplitude at z 0, is constant in time. In 7, the upper lower sign refers to the right left circularly polarized wave. Since the ponderomotive force plays a fundamental role in a variety of problems in. Ponderomotive interaction with single electrons plane. We use the term ponderomotive effect to refer to the wider family of phenomena caused by the nonlinear lorentz force of propagating mhd waves, and in this paper we primarily consider the speci. An expression containing both the classical as well as the spininduced ponderomotive force is derived. In the theoretical and experimental research, the laser beam propagation and electron acceleration by ponderomotive force in underdense plasma has attracted. The general expression for the ponderomotive force in a homogeneous medium moving with uniform velocity is obtained.
Influence of the radio frequency ponderomotive force on anomalous impurity transport in tokamaks. Krapchev june 1984 this work was supported in part by u. The total ponderomotive force and inhomogeneity indicators. In physics, a ponderomotive force is a nonlinear force that a charged particle experiences in an. This is a nonlinear force formulated as a quadratic expression of the force quantities of electrostatic fields. Relativistic ponderomtive force acceleration of electrons in weak. The result is generalized to the relativistic case of the wellknown expression for the gaponovmiller force acting on an electron at rest. Sometimes people like einstein, lorentz and maxwell use this phrase. In strongfield laser physics, ponderomotive energy is the cycleaveraged quiver energy of a free electron in an electromagnetic field. The contribution of magnetic monopoles to ponderomotive forces in. This force can be thought of as arising from the added plasma pressure produced by the oscillatory motion of charged particles in a strong electromagnetic field. Observations on the ponderomotive force spie digital library.
Ponderomotive definition is tending to produce movement of a body used of mechanical forces of interaction between electric currents and magnetic fields. Ponderomotive entanglement purification, physics letters a. The derivation of the ponderomotive force due to neutrinos by hardy and melrose, phys. The audio speaker and the electromagnetic balance appears to contradict the general argument of section 10. Full text views reflects the number of pdf downloads, pdfs sent to. Motion in oscillating fields university of texas at austin. Their conclusions also contain an erroneous physical assumption related to the neutrino emission in supernovae. The protocol is based on the possibility to exploit such force for a local quantum nondemolition measurement of the total excitation number of continuous variable entangled pairs. Give me an example of what this force is and how it works. The goal of this derivation is to be able to describe the optical eld outputted at the dark port of the interferometer. Pdf enhanced ponderomotive force in graphene due to.
Ponderomotive squeezing of light department of physics. However, a careful analysis leads to the conclusion that, even for these cases, the net magnetic work is zero. Beside such processes, it is known that the inhomogeneous electromagnetic field leads to ponderomotive forces that can enhance the ionic diffusion. Using 3 and 7, the magnetic field component of the wave may be obtained. We recover the usual results for the relativistic ponderomotive force of a photon gas, and we derive the force, due to weak interactions, exerted by the electronneutrinos in a background medium containing electrons, positrons and neutrons with arbitrary distribution functions. Relativistic ponderomotive force including higher order. In physics, a ponderomotive force is a nonlinear force that a charged particle experiences in an inhomogeneous oscillating electromagnetic field. Thus, the combined effect of ponderomotive forces should be to form an f einduced density cavity bounded by a small, f iinduced density ridge. If one uses the atomic unit of electric field, then the ponderomotive energy is just. For plasma physicists, the ponderomoti ve force has one very important property it drives the positive and negative particles in the same direction, and so gives a. Furthermore, in section 4, a similar procedure is performed to obtain the ponderomotive force acting on magnetic monopoles mainly owed to.
The ponderomotive force of an electromagnetic wave in a. Ponderomotive force as a cause for chaos in loudspeakers. The ponderomotive force is an important concept in plasma physics and, in particular, plays an. Interaction with single electrons plane wave laboratory frame average rest frame finite pulse duration ponderomotive force summary 3 interaction with single electrons motion of an electron in an electromagnetic plane wave. Pdf magnetization of a warm plasma by the nonstationary. The ponderomotive forces can create a driving force for the ions and charged vacancies diffusions especially near the surfaces or. Ponderomotive forces and the filamentation of electromagnetic radiation. On the basis of the theory, we discuss design directions on how to avoid the chaotic behaviors. Pdf influence of the radio frequency ponderomotive force. It is clear that the oscillation centre experiences a force, called the ponderomotive force, which is proportional to the gradient in the amplitude of the wavefield. The possibilities of electron acceleration by ponderomotive force of a circularly polarized laser pulse in magnetized quantum plasma have been explored.