Remarkable paramagnetic features of Fermi-Dirac plasmas

TL;DR

This paper investigates how electron spin effects influence nonlinear wave propagation in dense, magnetized Fermi-Dirac plasmas, revealing the conditions for solitary wave formation relevant to astrophysical objects like white dwarfs.

Contribution

It introduces a relativistic quantum magnetohydrodynamics model to analyze spin-induced magnetosonic excitations in degenerate plasmas, highlighting the effects of plasma density and magnetic field strength.

Findings

Only rarefactive solitary structures are excited.

Magnetosonic soliton dynamics differ between degeneracy regimes.

Magnetic field and density significantly influence wave evolution.

Abstract

In this paper by using the relativistic magnetic susceptibility of a Fermi-Dirac (relativistically degenerate) plasma, quantum magnetohydrodynamics (QMHD) model is used to investigate the propagation of spin-induced (SI) magnetosonic nonlinear excitations in a normally and relativistically degenerate dense electron-ion plasma in the presence of the spin magnetization effect. Based on the conventional pseudopotential method the matching criterion for the evolution of SI solitary structures is evaluated. It is found that, the plasma mass density and strength of the magnetic field have significant effects on excitation and evolution of magnetosonic nonlinear structures in Fermi-Dirac plasmas. Only rarefactive SI magnetosonic solitary structures are found to excite in such plasmas. Furthermore, fundamental differences are shown to exist in magnetosonic soliton dynamics in the two distinct plasma degeneracy regimes, which is due to interplay between the negative spin paramagnetism pressure-like and positive relativistic degeneracy pressure of electrons. Current investigation can help better understand the electron spin effects on nonlinear wave propagations in strongly magnetized dense astrophysical objects such as white dwarfs and pulsar magnetospheres.