Relativistic hydrodynamic model with the average reverse gamma factor evolution for the degenerate plasmas: high-density ion-acoustic solitons

TL;DR

This paper develops a relativistic hydrodynamic model incorporating the average reverse gamma factor to analyze high-density, low-temperature degenerate plasmas and studies the properties of ion-acoustic solitons in this relativistic regime.

Contribution

It introduces a novel relativistic hydrodynamic model with the average reverse gamma factor evolution for degenerate plasmas, validated against relativistic Vlasov kinetic equations.

Findings

Model accurately describes ion-acoustic solitons in relativistic degenerate plasmas.

Comparison with kinetic equations confirms the model's validity in linear approximation.

Provides insights into plasma behavior near the speed of light.

Abstract

High-density low-temperature plasmas with degenerate species are considered in the limit of high Fermi velocities close to the speed of light. The small amplitude ion-acoustic solitons are studied in this regime. Presented analysis is based on the relativistic hydrodynamic model with the average reverse gamma factor evolution consists of the equations for evolution of the following functions the concentration, the velocity field, the average reverse relativistic gamma factor, and the flux of the reverse relativistic gamma factor, which are considered as main hydrodynamic variables. Justification of the suggested model via comparison of the hydrodynamic results with the result of application of the relativistic Vlasov kinetic equation is made in the linear approximation.