Intuitive and rigorous derivation of spontaneous emission and Landau damping of Langmuir waves through classical mechanics

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3534-3539

  Escande, D F ^a,b   Zekri, S ^a   Elskens, Yves ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b IRFM   (France)

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EID: 0001655555     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.871943     Document Type: Article

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