Resonant excitation of the ion-acoustic mode and suppression of the anomalous current in the nonlinear evolution of the ECDI
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Abstract
We present results of 1D collisionless simulations of plasma turbulence and related anomalous electron current of the electron cyclotron drift instability (ECDI). Our highly resolved, long-term simulations of xenon plasma in a magnetic field performed with the WarpX particle-in-cell code show several intermediate nonlinear stages before the system enters a stationary state with significantly increased electron temperature and a finite level of energy in the electrostatic fluctuations. The evolution of the ECDI is followed deeply into the nonlinear stage without invoking any ad hoc saturation mechanisms. In early and intermediate nonlinear stages, the fluctuations are driven by the electron cyclotron resonances gradually shifting from higher (m>1) modes to the fundamental m=1 resonance. The modification of the electron and ion distribution functions and their roles in the nonlinear developments and saturation of the instability are analyzed at different nonlinear stages—an aspect not thoroughly explored in the literature. A novel regime of the enhanced resonant growth is observed from the point when the cyclotron m=1 mode coincides with the most unstable ion-acoustic mode. In the final stage, our simulations reveal saturated turbulence spreading along the ion-acoustic dispersion curve from the m=1 cyclotron resonance, with spectral energy extending into nonlinear harmonics (m = 2, 3) that exhibit ion-acoustic-like features. In this stage, the anomalous electron current existing in intermediate stages is quenched to zero. The nonlinear development of ECDI driven by the E×B electron drift from the applied current and the ECDI driven by the ion beam perpendicular to the magnetic field are compared and characterized as two perspectives of the instability, observed through different Doppler-shifted frames. An extension of this work, incorporating the full dynamics of magnetized ions for ECDI driven by a hydrogen ion beam, shows the development of full beam inversion. The system exhibits periodic bursts of growth-saturation cycles of ECDI, with each successive burst decreasing in magnitude, indicating a gradual stabilization of the instability over a few ion beam rotations.
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