Ion acoustic waves in the plasma with the power-law q-distribution in nonextensive statistics

Abstract

We investigate the dispersion relation and Landau damping of ion acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free plasma when the plasma is described by the nonextensive q -distributions of Tsallis statistics. We show that the increased numbers of superthermal particles and low velocity particles can explain the strengthened and weakened modes of Landau damping, respectively, with the q -distribution. When the ion temperature is equal to the electron temperature, the weakly damped waves are found to be the distributions with small values of q .