Biomedical subjects

H B Nersisyan

Publications and source records attributed to H B Nersisyan.

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PubMed2005

Microfield distributions in strongly coupled two-component plasmas.

The electric microfield distribution at charged particles is studied for two-component electron-ion plasmas using molecular dynamics simulation and theoretical models. The particles are treated within classical statistical mechanics using an electron-ion Coulomb potential regularized at distances less than the de Broglie length to take into account the quantum-diffraction effects. The potential-of-mean-force (PMF) approximation is deduced from a canonical ensemble formulation. The resulting probability density of the electric microfield satisfies exactly the second-moment sum rule without the use of adjustable parameters. The correlation functions between the charged radiator and the plasma ions and electrons are calculated using molecular dynamics simulations and the hypernetted-chain approximation for a two-component plasma. It is shown that the agreement between the theoretical models for the microfield distributions and the simulations is quite good in general.

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PubMed2003

Energy loss of ions in a magnetized plasma: conformity between linear response and binary collision treatments.

The energy loss of a heavy ion moving in a magnetized electron plasma is considered within the linear response (LR) and binary collision (BC) treatments with the purpose to look for a connection between these two models. These two complementary approaches yield close results if no magnetic field is present, but there develop discrepancies with growing magnetic field at ion velocities that are lower than, or comparable with, the thermal velocity of the electrons. We show that this is a peculiarity of the Coulomb interaction which requires cutoff procedures to account for its singularity at the origin and its infinite range. The cutoff procedures in the LR and BC treatments are different as the order of integrations in velocity and in ordinary (Fourier) spaces is reversed in both treatments. While BC involves a velocity average of Coulomb logarithms, there appear in LR Coulomb logarithms of velocity averaged cutoffs. The discrepancies between LR and BC vanish, except for small contributions of collective modes, for smoothened potentials that require no cutoffs. This is shown explicitly with the help of an improved BC in which the velocity transfer is treated up to second order in the interaction in Fourier space.

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PubMed2000

Stopping power of ions in a magnetized two-temperature plasma.

Using the dielectric theory for a weakly coupled plasma, we investigate the stopping power of an ion in an anisotropic two-temperature electron plasma in the presence of a magnetic field. The analysis is based on the assumption that the energy variation of the ion is much less than its kinetic energy. A general expression for the stopping power is analyzed for weak and strong magnetic fields (i.e., for the electron cyclotron frequency less than and greater than the plasma frequency), and for low and high ion velocities. It is found that the usually velocity independent friction coefficient contains an anomalous term which diverges logarithmically as the projectile velocity approaches zero. The physical origin of this anomalous term is the coupling between the cyclotron motion of the electrons and the long-wavelength, low-frequency fluctuations produced by the projectile ion.

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