Formation of Solitary Structures and Double Layer in Weakly Degenerate Electron-Ion Quantum Plasma in Ionosphere

TL;DR

This paper investigates the formation of solitary structures and double layers in weakly degenerate electron-ion plasma in the ionosphere using a hydrodynamic quantum model and Sagdeev's pseudo-potential method.

Contribution

It introduces a hydrodynamic model with quantum diffraction effects to analyze solitary structures and double layers in ionospheric plasma, providing new insights into their parametric dependencies.

Findings

Identification of conditions for double layer formation

Analysis of soliton characteristics in quantum plasma

Parametric dependence of solitary structures

Abstract

In this paper, we consider ionospheric plasma consisting of weakly degenerate electrons and heavy ions. We embrace our hydrodynamic model by including the quantum diffraction term. By employing Sagdeev's pseudo-potential method, we obtain double layers and soliton structure. We have studied the various parametric dependence of solitary structures and double layers. The results thus obtained might be helpful in the studies of many high energy astrophysical phenomena.