Jan-Philip Joost

Screened Coulomb potential in a flowing magnetized plasma

The electrostatic potential of a moving dust grain in a complex plasma with magnetized ions is computed using linear response theory, thereby extending our previous work for unmagnetized plasmas (Ludwig et al 2012 New J. Phys. 14 053016). In addition to the magnetic field, our approach accounts for a finite ion temperature as well as ion-neutral collisions. Our recently introduced code Kielstream is used for an efficient calculation of the dust potential. Increasing the magnetization of the ions, we find that the shape of the potential crucially depends on the Mach number M. In the regime of subsonic ion flow (M 1 the magnetic field effectively suppresses the plasma wakefield.

Impact of collisions on the dust wake potential with Maxwellian and non-Maxwellian ions

This work examines the formation of wake fields caused by ions streaming around a charged dust particle, using three-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with charge-neutral collisions included. The influence of an external driving electric field, which leads to a non-Maxwellian distribution of ions, is investigated in detail. The wake features formed for non-Maxwellian ions exhibit significant deviations from those observed within the model of a shifted Maxwellian distribution. The dependence of the peak amplitude and position of the wake potential upon the degree of collisionality is analyzed for a wide range of streaming velocities (Mach numbers). In contrast to a shifted Maxwellian distribution of ions, the drift-driven non-Maxwellian distribution exhibits an increase of the wake amplitude of the first attractive peak with increase in collisionality for high streaming velocities. At very low Mach numbers, collision-induced amplification is observed for Maxwellian as well as non-Maxwellian distributions.This work examines the formation of wake fields caused by ions streaming around a charged dust particle, using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations with charge-neutral collisions included. The influence of an external driving electric field, which leads to a non-Maxwellian distribution of ions, is investigated in detail. The wake features formed for non-Maxwellian ions exhibit significant deviations from those observed within the model of a shifted Maxwellian distribution. The dependence of the peak amplitude and position of the wake potential upon the degree of collisionality is analyzed for a wide range of streaming velocities (Mach numbers). In contrast to a shifted Maxwellian distribution of ions, the drift-driven non-Maxwellian distribution exhibits an increase in the wake amplitude of the first attractive peak with an increase in collisionality for high streaming velocities. At very low Mach numbers, collision-induced amplification is observed for Maxwellian and non-Maxwellian distributions.

Comment on “On the unphysical solutions of the Kadanoff-Baym equations in linear response: Correlation-induced homogeneous density-distribution and attractors”

In a recent Rapid Communication [A. Stan, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{93}, 041103(R) (2016)], the reliability of the Keldysh--Kadanoff--Baym equations (KBE) using correlated selfenergy approximations applied to linear and nonlinear response has been questioned. In particular, the existence of a universal attractor has been predicted that would drive the dynamics of any correlated system towards an unphysical homogeneous density distribution regardless of the system type, the interaction and the many-body approximation. Moreover, it was conjectured that even the mean-field dynamics would be damped. Here, by performing accurate solutions of the KBE for situations studied in that paper, we prove these claims wrong being caused by numerical inaccuracies.

Nonequilibrium dynamics in the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model: Comparison of the nonequilibrium Green-functions approach and the density matrix renormalization group method

The nonequilibrium dynamics of strongly-correlated fermions in lattice systems have attracted considerable interest in the condensed matter and ultracold atomic-gas communities. While experiments have made remarkable progress in recent years, there remains a need for the further development of theoretical tools that can account for both the nonequilibrium conditions and strong correlations. For instance, time-dependent theoretical quantum approaches based on the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods have been primarily applied to one-dimensional setups. Recently, two-dimensional quantum simulations of the expansion of fermions based on nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF) have been presented [Schlunzen et al., Phys. Rev. B 93, 035107 (2016)] that showed excellent agreement with the experiments. Here we present an extensive comparison of the NEGF approach to numerically accurate DMRG results. The results indicate that NEGF are a reliable theoretical tool for weak to intermediate coupling strengths in arbitrary dimensions and make long simulations possible. This is complementary to DMRG simulations which are particularly efficient at strong coupling.