Kinetic analysis of spin current contribution to spectrum of electromagnetic waves in spin-1/2 plasma. II. Dispersion dependencies
Abstract
The dielectric permeability tensor for spin polarized plasmas derived in terms of the spin-1/2 quantum kinetic model in six-dimensional phase space obtained in Part I of this work is applied for the study of spectra of high-frequency transverse and transverse-longitudinal waves propagating perpendicular to the external magnetic field. Cyclotron waves are studied in consideration of waves with the electric field directed parallel to the external magnetic field. It is found that the separate spin evolution modifies the spectrum of cyclotron waves. These modifications increase with the increase in spin polarization and the number of the cyclotron resonance. Spin dynamics gives a considerable modification of spectra even if the anomalous part of electron magnetic moment is not included in the model. The account of anomalous magnetic moment leads to a fine structure of each cyclotron resonance. So, each cyclotron resonance splits into three waves. Details of this spectrum and its changes with the change of spin polarization are studied for the first and second cyclotron waves. A cyclotron resonance existing at ω≈0.001 | Ωe| due to the anomalous magnetic moment is also described, where | Ωe| is the cyclotron frequency. The ordinary waves do not have any considerable modification. The electrostatic and electromagnetic Berstein modes are studied during the analysis of waves propagating perpendicular to the external magnetic field with the electric field perturbation directed perpendicular to the external field. A modification of the oscillatory structure caused by the equilibrium spin polarization is found in both regimes. Similar modification is found for the extraordinary wave spectrum.
- Publication:
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Physics of Plasmas
- Pub Date:
- February 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4975015
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1611.00046
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhPl...24b2115A
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Plasma Physics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 9 figures