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Stability and evolution of electromagnetic solitons in relativistic degenerate laser plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2020

Sima Roy  and
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Sima Roy
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Department of Mathematics, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan731 235, India
A. P. Misra*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan731 235, India
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†Email addresses for correspondence: apmisra@visva-bharati.ac.in, apmisra@gmail.com
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Abstract

The dynamical behaviours of electromagnetic (EM) solitons formed due to nonlinear interaction of linearly polarized intense laser light and relativistic degenerate plasmas are studied. In the slow-motion approximation of relativistic dynamics, the evolution of weakly nonlinear EM envelope is described by the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger (GNLS) equation with local and nonlocal nonlinearities. Using the Vakhitov–Kolokolov criterion, the stability of an EM soliton solution of the GNLS equation is studied. Different stable and unstable regions are demonstrated with the effects of soliton velocity, soliton eigenfrequency, as well as the degeneracy parameter $R=p_{Fe}/m_ec$, where $p_{Fe}$ is the Fermi momentum and $m_e$ the electron mass and $c$ is the speed of light in vacuum. It is found that the stability region shifts to an unstable one and is significantly reduced as one enters from the regimes of weakly relativistic $(R\ll 1)$ to ultrarelativistic $(R\gg 1)$ degeneracy of electrons. The analytically predicted results are in good agreement with the simulation results of the GNLS equation. It is shown that the standing EM soliton solutions are stable. However, the moving solitons can be stable or unstable depending on the values of soliton velocity, the eigenfrequency or the degeneracy parameter. The latter with strong degeneracy $(R>1)$ can eventually lead to soliton collapse.

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plasma nonlinear phenomenaplasma wavesastrophysical plasmas
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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 86 , Issue 6 , December 2020 , 905860611
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