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Surface waves in a plasma flow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2000
Abstract
Dispersion characteristics of surface waves in a semibounded plasma flow with relativistic velocity u0 parallel to the plasma–vacuum interface are presented. The plasma is considered to be cold and collisionless, which allows us to take into account only the electron motion. It is shown that – in contrast to the bulk waves, which are invariant with respect to Lorentz transformations and whose spectrum is independent of the flow velocity – the surface waves are not invariant, which leads to a dependence of their spectrum on the flow velocity and, correspondingly, to non-reciprocity. The latter peculiarity is due to the fact that the boundary conditions are not invariant.
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