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Plasma holes

Spontaneous quasi-neutrality breaking has been observed in a rotating plasma (plasma hole). Tanaka and Yoshimura write: (see Stria)

"plasmas are electrically neutral and breaking of this condition is rarely found in laboratories and space. An example of charge-neutrality breaking is sheath formation in front of a current-extracting electrode immersed into the plasma, and another example is a double layer. For both cases, the layer of quasi-neutrality breaking is very thin and is typically of the order of 101 times the Debye length.

"Recently, a singular vortex was found in a magnetized cylindrical plasma [1][7] and revealed that the spontaneous breaking of quasi-neutrality condition occurs in the bulk plasma. The vortex is called plasma hole [2][8] The fast rotation suggests that there exists a strong radial electric field to drive the vortical motion by E × B drift.

".. [regarding] the degree of nonneutrality in the presence of a plasma hole .. there exists a sharp peak in the center (hole region) (see Neutral Center), and its value reaches to the order of 10−3. In the peripheral region, however, the degree of nonneutrality is δn/n ≈ 10−6 as is expected. The difference in δn/n is three orders of magnitude higher than the peripheral, and therefore, we can conclude that quasi-neutrality breaking occurs in the center of the plasma hole."[9] (see Polarization, Neutral Center) http://www.plasma-universe.com/index.php/Quasi-neutrality

See Also


3.14 - Vortex Theory of Atomic Motions 13.04 - Atomic Subdivision Atomic Atomic Cluster X-Ray Emission Atomic Clusters Atomic Force atomic mass atomic number atomic theory atomic triplet atomic weight Black Holes Debye length Debye length in a plasma Debye length in an electrolyte diatomic Etheric Orbital Rotations Figure 13.06 - Atomic Subdivision Force-Atomic Formation of Atomic Clusters Gas-Plasma-Gas Transformation Inert Gas Interaction of Intense Laser Pulses with Atomic Clusters - Measurements of Ion Emission Simulations and Applications TD69.pdf InterAtomic Laser Cluster Interactions Law of Atomic Dissociation Law of Atomic Pitch Law of Oscillating Atomic Substances Law of Pitch of Atomic Oscillation Law of Variation of Atomic Oscillation by Electricity Law of Variation of Atomic Oscillation by Sono-thermism Law of Variation of Atomic Oscillation by Temperature Law of Variation of Atomic Pitch by Electricity and Magnetism Law of Variation of Atomic Pitch by Rad-energy Law of Variation of Atomic Pitch by Temperature Law of Variation of Pitch of Atomic Oscillation by Pressure Models of Laser Cluster Interactions monatomic Nanoplasma Plasma Plasma holes Quark-Gluon Plasma Quasi-neutrality Quasi-neutrality and Debye length Violation of quasi-neutrality

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