{"title":"Parametric excitation of Alfvèn waves","authors":"D. Montgomery , R.C. Harding","doi":"10.1016/0031-9163(66)90219-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is shown that if a d.c. magnetic field imposed on a plasma is given a small low-frequency modulation, Alfvèn waves may be excited in the plasma through parametric resonance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101027,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters","volume":"23 11","pages":"Pages 670-671"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1966-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0031-9163(66)90219-8","citationCount":"20","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031916366902198","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It is shown that if a d.c. magnetic field imposed on a plasma is given a small low-frequency modulation, Alfvèn waves may be excited in the plasma through parametric resonance.